Metadata: Principles and Practice

Programme Features

This course is for library/information workers and demystifies the concept of metadata, showing how and why they are used, in various environments. A variety of commonly-used metadata formats will be demonstrated, for example, Dublin Core, and AACR/MARC - and the way in which metadata creation relates to the "traditional" library/information tasks of indexing and cataloguing will be outlined.

Course highlights:

• What are metadata? Their use and significance
• metadata formats
• metadata creation, indexing and cataloguing
• creating and evaluating metadata formats .

On completing the course, you will be able to:

• understand what metadata is, how it is used, and why it is important
• be familiar with several widely-used metadata formats
• understand the relation between metadata, indexing and cataloguing
• be able to create metadata records
• be able to evaluate and choose appropriate metadata formats