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Metadata Standards & Applications

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Materials for Instructors Materials for Sponsors
Trainee Manual  [PDF: 10.2MB / 312 pp.] Guidelines for Sponsoring a Workshop
Instructor's Manual  [PDF: 11.4MB / 472 pp.] Needs Assessment Form [PDF: 23KB / 2 pp.]
Powerpoint Slides [PPT: 8.12MB] List of Trainers [PDF: 54KB / 1 p.]
  Certificate of Completion [Word: 24KB / 1 p.]

Course Description

Current Version: 2.1 (February 2009)

The Metadata Standards & Applications course presents bibliographic control concepts for the 21st century with an emphasis on digital resources. The goal of the course is to expand on attendees’ current knowledge about library catalog metadata to include other additional forms of library metadata used in digital libraries. The course explores the following topics:

  • Introduction to digital libraries
  • Descriptive metadata standards
  • Technical and administrative metadata standards
  • Metadata syntaxes and containers
  • Applying metadata standards: application profiles
  • Controlled vocabularies
  • Approaches to metadata creation, storage and retrieval in the digital environment
  • Metadata interoperability and quality issues

Intended Audience

This course is designed for practicing catalogers (with or without MLS degrees) from all types of libraries, with a working knowledge of MARC and concepts of bibliographic control.

Course Hours

The course is designed as a two day workshop, consisting of 11 instruction hours.

Last Update: January 15, 2013

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