This final course in the Metadata Principles and Practices Series focuses on the role of expressing relationships in metadata to enhance resource discovery. Topics to be covered:
- How the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard maintains links between metadata and the resources they describe
- How the Semantic Web, RDF and Linked Data semantically articulate relationships between entities to aggregate metadata components and enable users to find resources related to their research interests
- The Bibliographic Framework (BibFrame) as an application of RDF and its potential as a replacement for MARC 21
* 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:
- Describe the role of relationships in enabling resource acquisition
- Identify technologies for articulating relationships in metadata
- Assess the current status and potential of BibFrame as a replacement for MARC
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.