4.1: Metadata Standards and Applications
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- 147143
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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.
Metadata Standards & Applications
- Library of Congress
- http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/courses/metadatastandards/
- In the public domain