Basic Metadata Workshop

Claire Hill

Project Coordinator, AVEL

An introduction to metadata and its application

What is metadata?

… structured data which describes the characteristics of a resource

Chris Taylor, 1999

• Organise information

• Improve access to information

• Allow users to tell whether it will be of use to them

Why use it?

Metadata deployment

1. Embedding in HTML code of a website

<META NAME="DC.Identifier" SCHEME="URI" CONTENT="http://avel.edu.au"><META NAME="DC.Title.Main" CONTENT="Australian Virtual Engineering Library (AVEL) home page"><META NAME="DC.Language" SCHEME="RFC1766" CONTENT="en">

Metadata deployment

2. Separate HTML document linking to a resource

Metadata deployment

3. Database record linked to a resource

Dublin Core

• Content/About the Resource

Title, Subject, Description, Source, Language, Relation, Coverage

• Intellectual Property

Creator, Publisher, Contributor, Rights

• Electronic/Physical manifestation

Date, Type, Format, Identifier

Developing a schema

• Metadata schema - overall plan of how resources will be managed

• Consider potential services

Search & Browse

Record Creation

& Editing

Record Creation

& Editing

InterfaceInterface

ThesaurusDocumentation

Metadata Schema

Jobs & Employment

Link checking

Link checking

Repository

Mirror Newsletter

ServicesServices

Links to other gateways

Conference Announcements

Latest Resources Added

AVEL Gateway Model

AVEL metadata tools

HotMeta - DSTC

Basic package

• template for record creation

• repository

• search engine

Support tools

• Thesaurus

• Resource Selection Criteria

• Metadata Manual

• Target Audience

AVEL Team

UQCore Team

QUT

Brisbane

Sydney

Melbourne

CanberraMelb U

Monash

Nat Lib

IEAust

UNSW

DSTC

Record creation

• AVEL records created from scratch (harvesting a future possibility)

• Each website sent standard email advising inclusion

Issues

• quality control and standardisation

• interoperability

• sustainability

References

• An Introduction to Metadata

http://www.library.uq.edu.au/iad/ctmeta4.html

• Meta Matters

http://www.nla.gov.au/meta/

• Metadata for the masses

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue5/metadata-masses/