This presentation was given by Jenn Riley of McGill University during the 11th Annual NISO-BISG Forum, Ensuring the Integrated Information Experience, held at ALA on June 23, 2017.
3. § Metadata in everyday life
§ How it’s used in cultural heritage organizations
§ Types of metadata (descriptive, technical, structural, etc)
§ Storing and sharing metadata (databases, XML, RDF)
§ Standardization
§ Metadata languages used on the Web
§ Metadata languages used in the cultural heritage sector
§ Generating metadata
What’s covered
June 23, 2017 NISO-BISG Forum, ALA 2017
4. Understanding Metadata talks about a sea-change
June 23, 2017 NISO-BISG Forum, ALA 2017
"Full fathom five thy father lies,
Of his bones are coral made,
Those are pearls that were his eyes,
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change,
into something rich and strange,
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell,
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them, ding-dong, bell.”
--Shakespeare, The Tempest
18. June 23, 2017 NISO-BISG Forum, ALA 2017
Photo by Soraya S., https://flic.kr/p/78gW9T
19. § Rethink workflows
§ Focus on the what rather than the how
§ Rethink business models
§ Commodification has evolved: Systems → Information → Intelligence
§ Seek orders of magnitude growth in integrations, not individual deals
§ Look for data we can use from elsewhere
§ Publish our data so others can use it
§ Follow standards, but don’t be paralyzed by them
What does this mean for us?
June 23, 2017 NISO-BISG Forum, ALA 2017
20. § jenn.riley@mcgill.ca
§ @jenlrile
§ These presentation slides:
http://www.jennriley.com/presentations/alaannual2017/
nisoForum.pptx
§ Understanding Metadata: http://www.niso.org/publications/
press/understanding_metadata
Thank you!
June 23, 2017 NISO-BISG Forum, ALA 2017