Don’t miss the upcoming series, "Metadata Principles and Practices"

Do you catalog or plan digital projects? Do you wish to better understand the role of metadata and how it works? Check out our four-part series, Metadata Principles and Practices, designed for catalogers, archivists, digital project managers, or anyone needing an overview of metadata.

• Metadata Principles and Practices 01: Metadata Basics
  Register Now – Tuesday, August 1, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT – Early bird registration ends 7/10
  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, listing the components of a metadata infrastructure and keys to successfully launching a new metadata standard, understanding how well formed XML provides a framework for expressing metadata in an online environment. This class is part of a four-part series.
• Metadata Principles and Practices 02: Metadata Standards & Types
  Register Now – Thursday, August 3, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT – Early bird registration ends 7/12
  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, and 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.
• Metadata Principles and Practices 03: Metadata Customization Exchange, Transformation and Migration
  Register Now – Tuesday, August 15, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT – Early bird registration ends 7/24
  This third workshop in the "Metadata Principles and Practices" series covers the processes by which institutions customize existing metadata standards, exchange and harvest metadata, transform metadata from one standard to another, and migrate metadata to a newer standard. Topics to be covered include: metadata quality factors, application profiles, the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and metadata crosswalks and stylesheets.
• Metadata Principles and Practices 04: Metadata Relationships
  Register Now – Thursday, August 17, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. – Early bird registration ends 7/26
  This final workshop in the "Metadata Principles and Practices" series focuses on the role of expressing relationships in metadata to enhance resource discovery.