Metadata Principles & Practices Workshop Series Slated for July, August

This series of four workshops addresses metadata in our modern online environments. Click on the links below for more information and to register.

• Metadata Basics
  July 28, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CDT
  This course defines metadata; outlines the purposes and functions of metadata; lists the components of a metadata infrastructure and keys to successfully launching a new metadata standard; demonstrates how well formed XML provides a framework for expressing metadata in an online environment.
• Metadata Standards & Types
  July 30, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CDT
  We'll discuss XML DTDs and schemas and list the types and examples of metadata currently in use today.
• Metadata Customization, Exchange Transformation and Migration
  August 4, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CDT
  You'll learn metadata quality factors, application profiles, the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, metadata crosswalks and stylesheets.
• Metadata Relationships
  August 6, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CDT
  We'll focus on the role of expressing relationships in metadata to enhance resource discovery.