Metadata Principles and Practices: Metadata Relationships

Scheduled Dates

June 18, 2024 10:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT (Register Now)

Course Details
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Course Description

This final course in the Metadata Principles and Practices Series focuses on the role of expressing relationships in metadata to enhance resource discovery. Topics to be covered:

  • How the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard maintains links between metadata and the resources they describe
  • How the Semantic Web, RDF and Linked Data semantically articulate relationships between entities to aggregate metadata components and enable users to find resources related to their research interests
  • The Bibliographic Framework (BibFrame) as an application of RDF and its potential as a replacement for MARC 21

* This course is eligible for micro-credentialing (optional) - What is micro-credentialing?

  1. Complete the following courses:
  2. Complete extra requirements for micro-credentialing participants:

Learning objectives for this session include
  • Describe the role of relationships in enabling resource acquisition
  • Identify technologies for articulating relationships in metadata
  • Assess the current status and potential of BibFrame as a replacement for MARC
Session Information
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This course consists of one 2-hour session.
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2
Instructor
Emily Nimsakont - enimsakont@gmail.com