Do you catalog? Do you plan digital projects? Do you wish to better understand the role of metadata and how it works? This 2-hour course will cover the basics of metadata. Topics include: defining metadata; outlining the purposes and functions of metadata; list the components of a metadata infrastructure and keys to successfully launching a new metadata standard; understand how well formed XML provides a framework for expressing metadata in an online environment. This course is part of a four part series entitled Metadata Principles & Practices.
* This course is eligible for micro-credentialing (optional) - What is micro-credentialing?
- Complete the following courses:
- Complete extra requirements for micro-credentialing participants:
- Extra homework per course
- Extra capstone project (extra $70 fee)- information on the capstone project here
- Analyze purpose and uses of metadata
- Outline components and needs of a successful metadata standard
- XML
- Identify three types of markup
- List rules for well-formed XML
Instructor(s)
Elliot Williams is the Metadata Strategist at the University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries and Museums. He has more than 12 years of experience working in metadata and cataloging at academic libraries, previously having worked at the University of Miami and Texas Digital Library. Elliot has masters' degrees in information studies from the University of Texas and history from the University of Miami.