Don't miss these upcoming courses on Cataloging and Metadata

  • Cataloging with RDA
    July 26 - 29, 2016, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm CDT
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    Goodbye AACR2 and hello RDA. This workshop will bring you the latest news on RDA and give you a thorough overview of the new content standard. Topics include: FRBR review; RDA Core elements for description, preferred titles and names; changes from AACR2; articulating relationships between resources and entities; RDA Toolkit functionality; using workflows and mappings to catalog materials with RDA. Through exercises and hands-on cataloging experiences, participants will receive a thorough grounding in RDA.

  • Metadata Principles and Practices 01: Metadata Basics
    August 2, 2016, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm CDT
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    Do you catalog? Do you plan digital projects? Do you wish to better understand the role of metadata and how it works? This 2-hour online workshop will cover the basics of metadata. Topics include: defining metadata; outlining the purposes and functions of metadata; list the components of a metadata infrastructure and keys to successfully launching a new metadata standard; understand how well formed XML provides a framework for expressing metadata in an online environment. This class is part of a four part series entitled Metadata Principles & Practices.

  • Metadata Principles and Practices 02: Metadata Standards and Types
    August 4, 2016, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm CDT
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    In this second workshop in the series "Metadata Principles and Practices," students will discover how metadata standards are created and explore several standards commonly in use today. Topics include: XML DTDs and schemas; types and examples of metadata currently in use today. This class should be taken after "Metadata Basics," but can be taken without the other two workshops in the series.