This third course 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, metadata crosswalks and stylesheets.
* This course is eligible for micro-credentialing (optional) - What is micro-credentialing?
- Complete the following courses:
- Metadata Principles and Practices: Metadata Basics
- Metadata Principles and Practices: Metadata Standards and Types
- Metadata Principles and Practices: Metadata Customization, Exchange, Transformation and Migration
- Metadata Principles and Practices: Metadata Relationships
- Complete extra requirements for micro-credentialing participants:
- Extra homework per course
- Extra capstone project (extra $70 fee) - information on the capstone project here
Learning objectives for this session may include:
- Understand why institutions want to customize metadata
- Analyze the role of application profiles in customizing application profiles
- Learn methods of exchanging, transforming and migrating metadata
Contact
learning@amigos.org
Session Duration
This course consists of one 2-hour session.
Topic Area
Metadata
Contact Hours
2
Instructor:
Emily Nimsakont is the Digital Librarian at Posit PBC, a data science software company. She previously worked as the Cataloging and Metadata Trainer for Amigos Library Services. She holds a master’s degree in library science from the University of Missouri-Columbia.