Metadata Principles and Practices: Micro-Credentialing & Capstone Project

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Course Description

* This culminating course is required to complete your micro-credentialing requirements. (optional) - What is micro-credentialing?

Do you catalog? Do you plan digital projects? Do you wish to better understand the role of metadata and how it works? In this 4-course certificate program, you will learn the purposes and functions of metadata, understand how XML is used to express a variety of metadata standards, explore various metadata standards currently in use, learn about customization and interoperability of metadata, and explore the importance of relationships in metadata.

To earn the certificate, you must complete the following courses (and this capstone project):

Learning objectives for this session include
  • Analyze purpose and uses of metadata
  • Outline components and needs of a successful metadata standard
  • List types of metadata and their roles
  • Learn methods of customizing, exchanging, transforming, and migrating metadata
  • Identify technologies for articulating relationships in metadata
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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