WHY metadata for MY resources?

Nikos PalavitsinisHannes Ebner

Nikos Manouselis

Photos from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nathan_y/2635017968/ & http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakingtiger/3157622824/sizes/o/

Welcome

• Intro to metadata & application profiles• Quick usage guide for the Confolio Tool• Hands on metadata annotation using Confolio• Using metrics to evaluate metadata quality • Interactive session on quality of metadata• Short questionnaire on the session– Yes, another one… Sorry!– Your chance for revenge!

Rules

• Laptops will be needed

• Banned programs & apps (unless requested): Skype, Firefox, IE, Chrome, Outlook, Thunderbird, whole MS Office suite (all versions), Messenger (of any kind), AUTOCAD, VLC media player (and all media players), paint, any other game, programming suites, calculator, notepad, wordpad, acrobat reader, winzip, winrar, minesweeper…

Intro to metadata

Definition

• “Metadata is structured information that:– Describes, – Explains, – Locates, – Makes it easier to retrieve & use– Helps in managing

...an information resource”*

*NISO (2004) Understanding Metadata. Bethesda, NISO Press

Metadata is everywhere

• We can have metadata on:– HTML documents, digital images, books, museum

objects, – Services, physical places, people, institutions,

abstract “works”, concepts, events– Metadata themselves– …

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name: Ariadne & Georgedescription: the twinskeywords: twins, Manouselis, menace, smellyformat: babiesdate: 11/2008creators: Polly, Nikos M.location: Crete, Greece

Purpose

• Resource discovery & integration,• Organize electronic resources,• Facilitate interoperability• Provide digital identification,• Support archiving & preservation

*NISO (2004) Understanding Metadata. Bethesda, NISO Press

Metadata Elements

• Each information resource is described by using specific data items

• These data items are called Elements

Metadata Schemas

• “A metadata scheme is a sets of metadata elements designed for a specific purpose, such as describing a particular type of information resource”*

*NISO (2004) Understanding Metadata. Bethesda, NISO Press

Evolution

element

element

element

element

element

Metadata Scheme

Used by one publishing house

Used by many publishing houses

Metadata Specification Metadata Standard

Adopted by Standards’ Organization

Evolution

Used in specific community

E.g. Publishing houses of medical books

Metadata Application ProfileMetadata Standard

Metadata SpecificationProfiled

Refined

Adapted

Application Domains

• Libraries• Agriculture• Museums• Education• Environment• Architecture• …you name it…