2. Source of metadata (external vs. internal)
Method of metadata creation
◦ Automatic vs. human
For humans: Expert or non-expert creator
Static vs. Dynamic
Structure
Semantics
Level of description
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3. Internal: file name, file format, title assigned by
author/creator
External: URL, changes tracked, rights and legal
information
Is the metadata intrinsic to the resource or does it
come from outside of the resource?
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4. Generated by automation: keyword indexes,
transaction logs
Generated by humans:
◦ By experts: catalog records
◦ By non-experts: folksonomy (tags), keywords assigned
by thesis authors, FAST
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5. Static: never changes
◦ File size
◦ How the object was created
Dynamic: changes, modifications
◦ Rights information
◦ User transaction logs
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6. Describes the internal organization of a resource
Primarily of importance for machine processing,
not for users
Examples:
◦ Structured: MARC, TEI, EAD
◦ Unstructured: note fields, free-text fields
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7. Controlled metadata, such as controlled
vocabularies, and the rules that guide content
◦ LCSH, VRA, AACR2, DACS
Uncontrolled metadata, such as tags, free-text
notes
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8. Does the data relate to an individual resource or a
collection of resources?
Item level description or Collection level
description
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9. See handout
First 2 columns – in-class
http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv71365/op=fstyle.as
http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/handle/1957/28339
Last 2 columns – homework (to be done individually)
Due March 4 (next Monday). Late homework will be
docked one point for each day late. If you are ill, please
send me an email.
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10. See handout
First 2 columns – in-class
http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv71365/op=fstyle.as
http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/handle/1957/28339
Last 2 columns – homework (to be done individually)
Due March 4 (next Monday). Late homework will be
docked one point for each day late. If you are ill, please
send me an email.
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Hinweis der Redaktion
Visual resources assoc.
Enter text: fish ladder, choose first Ask about descriptive/administrative/structural metadata Metadata is Dublin Core. Cannot see here (don’t have access) but can identify the types from the display. Most of the first half data is descriptive; second half is administrative (especially technical)
