Metadata Principles and Practices: Metadata Basics

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Course Details
Course Type: 
Live-Online
Topic Area: 
Metadata
Course Description

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 course 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 course is part of a four part series entitled Metadata Principles & Practices.

* This course is eligible for micro-credentialing (optional) - What is micro-credentialing?

  1. Complete the following courses:
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Learning objectives for this session include
  • Analyze purpose and uses of metadata
  • Outline components and needs of a successful metadata standard
  • XML
  • Identify three types of markup
  • List rules for well-formed XML
Session Information
Session Duration: 
This course consists of one 2-hour session.
Contact Hours: 
2
Instructor Information

Emily Nimsakont portraitEmily Nimsakont is a Digital Librarian at Posit PBC. She has over ten years of experience in cataloging and technical services, including digital asset management for a corporation, head of technical services at an academic law library, and cataloger/trainer at the Nebraska Library Commission. She holds a master’s degree in library science from University of Missouri-Columbia, a master’s degree in museum studies from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a bachelor’s degree in history and psychology from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.

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