Metadata Principles and Practices: Metadata Standards and Types

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

In this second course 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 course should be taken after "Metadata Basics," but can be taken without the other two workshops in the series.

* This course is eligible for Micro-Credentialing (optional) - What is Micro-Credentialing?

  1. Complete the following courses:
  2. Complete extra requirements for Micro-credentialing participants:
Learning objectives for this session include
  • Understand the roles of schemas and DTDs in defining tags, attributes and structures used in defining metadata standards
  • List types of metadata and their roles in:
    • describing resources
    • defining rights and controlling access to resources
    • providing access to resources
    • preserving and maintaining resources
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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