Workshop: Metadata for Digital Collections

METRO, 2014-05-14 and 2014-05-15

Day 2 Advanced Metadata (Designing for Metadata Projects)

5. Working with metadata for your digital collection

5.1 Metadata Decisions for Your Digital Collection (ppt)

5.2 Application Profiles (ppt)

5.2 (Hands-on) Developing a Metadata Element Set and/or an Application Profile for a postcard collection

(Use the template (WORD doc, also will be distributed in class))

In-class practice 3.(Group):

Part 1. Knowing your collection.

Group preparation: Form the group, start examining the resources to be described. Draft the desired elements.
(template p.1)

Part 2. Developing the Element Set/Application Profile for the collection

Step 1. Communicate about the functional requirements p.90 (template p.1)

Step 2. Design a domain model

Step 3. Identify desired metadata elements for the collection (lecture notes ppt) p.93

Group work I. Elements (template p. 3)

Step 4. Value Space Decisions (lecture notes ppt) p.103
-- Using authority files for names, titles, and subjects

Group work II. Value space (template p. 4)

Link to a list of online sources: Value encoding standards

Step 5. Find existing elements and re-use them in an Application Profile p.101

Group work III. Reusing existing elements in the application profile (template p. 5)

Step 6. Mapping and Crosswalking p.119

Group work IV. Basic mapping practice (mapping with another group's elements) Crosswalking

Mapping between different formats (lecture notes ppt) (template p. 6)

Step 7. [info] Specification / Documentation (lecture notes ppt) p.93

[info] Write a specification for the complete element set (template p. 7)

Step 8. [info] Prepare guidelines for use (template p. 8)

Step 9. [info] Creating a metadata schema using XML (links) p.131

6. Implementation

Exercise 5: Defining Properties using ContentDM software:

Set up your WorldCat account (Instruction) or Go to: http://www.worldcat.org/account/?page=register

Practice with Content DM (Instruction (WORD)). Host site: https://server15855.contentdm.oclc.org/cgi-bin/admin/start.exe

7. Related Issues

7.1 Where to find a property that was already defined by a standard?

Metadata Registries (lecture notes ppt) p.217
- Examples of a registry Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)

7.2 What is in an aggregated metadata repository?

Metadata Repositories (lecture notes ppt) p.224

Real cases
- Our class' ContentDM collection at http://cdm15855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/oclcsample
  Think: when metadata came from different sources, can we do a good search? How can a user find information?
- NSDL (National Science Digital Library) https://nsdl.org/
  Think: how NSDL is able to host metadata records and provide a unified search result? How could it provide cross-database search? What protocol has it used?
- The ContentDM Portal http://www.contentdm.org/
  Think, what is the difference of a portal from a repository? Are you able to find individual objects' descriptions at the portal? How about cross-database search?

7.3 Quality enhancement in metadata repositories (lecture notes ppt) p.247

7.4 [If time allows] Linked Data and LAMs (ppt)

7.5 Summary and Conclusion (ppt)

Metadata Workflow chart (ppt)

For more information:

*Metadata. Marcia L. Zeng and Jian Qin. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2008. ISBN: 9781555706357 / 9781856046558
2nd Edition to be published in 2014. ALA Neal-Schuman, ISBN: 1555709656 / 978-1555709655

book website: http://www.metadataetc.org/book-website/index.html

.Metadata Basics Tutorial. http://marciazeng.slis.kent.edu/metadatabasics/index.htm