metadata for repository administrators 2010
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A presentation and workshop I devised and ran on behalf of UKOLN - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ - for the RSP - http://www.rsp.ac.uk/ - at Oxford in 2010.TRANSCRIPT
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MetadataRSP Workshop for Repository
Administrators
Oxford11/August/2010
Stephanie TaylorResearch OfficerUKOLN, University of BathE - [email protected]
UKOLN is supported by:This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat)
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About Me
Stephanie Taylor:• Work with UKOLN as a research officer• Work on the practical side of institutional
repositories• Worked on the first phase of the RSP
UKOLN:• National centre of expertise in digital
information management• Located at the University of Bath
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What is metadata?Metadata is structured information
that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an information resource.
Source: NISO (2004) Understanding Metadata. Bethesda, NISO Press.
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What Is Metadata? (1)
Structured data about “something”• Text• Images• Sound• Movement• Objects• Events• Services
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What Is Metadata? (2)
Encountered every day• Timetables• Directories• Internet shopping sites, etc
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Metadata is…
Stored in - • Databases, repositories• Web pages
Carriers• Formats (e.g. MARC)• Markup languages (e.g. HTML, SGML,
XML)
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Types of metadata
Descriptive
Structural
Administrative• Rights management metadata• Preservation metadata
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Why do you need it?
•To enable discovery of your digitised material
• To enable harvesting of your digitised material by external systems
• To help you organise your digitised material
• To support archiving and preservation
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Metadata Schemas
A metadata scheme is a sets of metadata elements designed for a specific purpose, such as describing a particular type of information resource.
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Current Standards
“Standards are like toothbrushes, everyone agrees that they’re a good idea but nobody wants to use anyone else’s.” From a Murtha Baca presentationDublin Core (Simple, Qualified, Application Profiles)MARC, ONIXEADMODS, METS, DIDL, PREMIS, MIX, RSLP-CD etc.
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Out of the box…
Realistically most people when first establishing online digitised resource will work with what comes out of the box … but fields can be added and schemes customised. Explore types and field structures at an early stage and set up your metadata scheme. Consider local needs such as departmental and project work structures and any local decisions needed about subject fields etc.
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The “Other” Repositories
What *might* be a repository?• Flickr?• Google Docs?• YouTube?• SlideShare?• Wikipedia?• Twitter?
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Folksonomy & Tagging
Metadata for the people, by the peopl• Keywords• Descriptive• Created by and for human beings• Inconsistent• Personal• Shared• Created on the fly• Unstructured