Presentation for HIST 678 Feb 24, 2011

1. Metadata Overview: Theory and Practice Joanne Riley University Archivist Joseph P. Healey Library University of Massachusetts Boston 617-287-5927 [email_address]

2. www.WorthingtonMemory.org

3. Source: http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2009/the-sponsor-interviews-digital-new-zealand/

5. “ Information About Information”

6. This is Information

7. This is Information about This song is 1’30” long That album has 17 tracks I have all of Regina Spektor’s albums This is my favorite song This is Rock ‘n Roll , that’s jazz I bought this track on Amazon.com

8. This is Metadata About

9. What’s the difference? Metadata This song is 1’30” long That album has 17 tracks I have all of Regina Spektor’s albums This is my favorite song This is Rock ‘n Roll , that’s jazz. I bought this track on Amazon.com Information

11. Allows resources to be found, identified, described, annotated, collocated, shared and disambiguated Source: Understanding Metadata , NISO Press. 2004. http://www.niso.org/publications/press/

12. iTunes Metadata

14. Structural

15. Administrative

16. Describes intellectual content of an object. Purposes: discovery and identification. Includes elements like title, abstract, author, keywords… iTunes: Descriptive Metadata

17. iTunes: Descriptive Metadata Describes intellectual content of an object. Purposes: discovery and identification. Includes elements like title, abstract, author, keywords…

18. iTunes: Structural Metadata Ties each object to others to make up logical units Ex: how pages are ordered to form a chapter of a digitized book

19. Ties each object to others to make up logical units Ex: how pages are ordered to form a chapter of a digitized book iTunes: Structural Metadata

20. iTunes Administrative Metadata Manages the object or controls access to it Creation info, file type, access permissions Rights – IP rights Preservation – info needed to preserve the resource

21. iTunes Administrative Metadata Manages the object or controls access to it Creation info, file type, access permissions Rights – IP rights Preservation – info needed to preserve the resource

22. iTunes Metadata Descriptive Structural Administrative

25. EAD 84% Used by archivists for finding aids

26. Dublin Core 78% Used by cultural heritage practitioners for items

27. Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe

31. Archivists Toolkit

33. CA State Archives template

35. Creator

36. Subject

37. Description

38. Publisher

39. Contributor

40. Date

41. Type

42. Format

43. Identifier

44. Source

45. Language

46. Relation

47. Coverage

49. The Case for Content Control Source: http://del.icio.us/tag/

51. 4.1. Title Label: Title Element Description: The name given to the resource. Typically, a Title will be a name by which the resource is formally known. Guidelines for creation of content: If in doubt about what constitutes the title, repeat the Title element and include the variants in second and subsequent Title iterations. If the item is in HTML, view the source document and make sure that the title identified in the title header (if any) is also included as a Title. Examples: Title="A Pilot's Guide to Aircraft Insurance" Title="The Sound of Music" Title="Green on Greens" Title="AOPA's Tips on Buying Used Aircraft" Entry Guidelines for Dublin Core Element #1: Title Source: http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/elements.shtml

52. 4.2. Subject Label: Subject and Keywords Element Description: The topic of the content of the resource. Typically, a Subject will be expressed as keywords or key phrases or classification codes that describe the topic of the resource. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary or formal classification scheme. Guidelines for creation of content: Select subject keywords from the Title or Description information, or from within a text resource. […] In general, choose the most significant and unique words for keywords, avoiding those too general to describe a particular item. Subject might include classification data if it is available (for example, Library of Congress Classification Numbers or Dewey Decimal numbers) or controlled vocabularies (such as Medical Subject Headings or Art and Architecture Thesaurus descriptors) as well as keywords. […] Examples: Subject="Aircraft leasing and renting" Subject="Dogs" Subject="Olympic skiing" Subject="Street, Picabo" Source: http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/elements.shtml Entry Guidelines for Dublin Core Element #3: Subject

53. Simple Dublin Core Markup <rdf:Description> <dc:title> Internet Ethics </dc:title> <dc:creator> Duncan Langford </dc:creator> <dc:format> Book </dc:format> <dc:identifier> ISBN 0333776267 </dc:identifier> <dc:description> This is a book about applying ethical considerations to online behavior and information provision. </ dc:description> </rdf:Description> Internet Ethics , a book by Duncan Langford. ISBN 0333776267 This book is about applying ethical considerations to online behavior and information provision. Information encoded as DC- compliant metadata

56. Metadata . SPEC Kit #298: Executive Summary. 2007.

57. A Practical Application of Dublin Core: Worthington Memory . 2002. Allen and Davis.

58. This presentation: