Metadata for Digital Collections
Are you planning a digitization project? Are your library’s existing digital collections being used effectively? Add value and improve access to your digital collections with well-considered, well-structured metadata. Learn the basics of descriptive metadata schemes such as Dublin Core, EAD, and VRA Core, as well as technical, structural, and preservation metadata schemes. This session will help make sense of all those acronyms and provide a context for identifying your own institution’s needs for the description and management of digital objects.
This demonstration class provides an overview of metadata concepts and examples of practical applications in libraries and cultural heritage organizations.
Who should attend: Anyone interested in learning more about metadata standards and their applications.
Prerequisite: None.
After taking this class you will know about:
- Types of metadata and their purposes
- Descriptive metadata schemes:
- Dublin Core
- Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
- Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
- Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)
- Visual Resources Association Core (VRA Core)
- Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
- Structural metadata: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
- Technical metadata: NISO Metadata for Images in XML Schema (MIX)
- Preservation metadata: Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies (PREMIS)
- Best practices
- Crosswalks
Related workshops:
- Metadata: The Basics
- Metadata: MARC and Dublin Core
- Metadata: Special Collections and Archives
- FRBR for Everyone
Instructor(s):
Lynne Graziadei
Cost:
| Nylink Members | ||
|---|---|---|
| Premium | $50 | |
| Standard | $70 | |
| Basic | $85 | |
| Individual [ What is Individual membership? 1 ] | $100 | |
| NEE Participants | $70 | |
| Affiliate cost: | $140 | |
| Request this Class What is this? | ||
| Nylink Premium and Standard members: | $945 | |
| Nylink Basic members: | $1260 | |
| Affiliate: | $1575 | |
| 1 Individual membership is an annual membership option for individuals not already associated with a Nylink member library. More information on this and all membership levels can be found on the Nylink Membership page. | ||
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