1. Continuing Education
for Metadata Creation
and Management Zofia
Federowicz

2. From Metadata Creation to
Metadata Quality Control:
Continuing Education Needs
Among Cataloging and Metadata
Professionals
by Jung-ran Park, Yuji Tosaka,
Susan Maszaros, Caimei Lu
“Journal of Education for Library and Information
Science”, Vol. 51 (2010), No. 3, pp. 158-176

3. Overview
● Subject background
● Research questions
● The study results
● Summarization of the study
● Continuing education opportunities in Poland

4. Background
● Rapid development of new metadata
standards and digital library technologies
● Demand for continuing education programs
● Lack of necessary research

5. Research questions
1. What is the current state of continuing
education and professional development?
2. What areas are sought by cataloging and
metadata professionals for continuing
education?
3. What educational resources and training
are desired by cataloging and metadata
professionals?

6. Results – three main areas
1. Current interest and motivation in pursuing
continuing education
2. Past experience with continuing education
3. Interest in future continuing education
programs

7. Current interest and motivation
● Strong interest in engaging in continuing
education for metadata creation activities
● Respondents participation in professional
development activities – within the last:
– 2 years
– 12 months

8. Past experience
Keeping up with the multiplication of metadata
schemes and standards
● metadata standards
● content standards
● markup languages

9. Past experience
Establishment and maintenance of controlled
forms of headings
● controlled vocab.
standards
● authority control
● thesaurus/taxonomy
construction

10. Past experience
Planning and management for metadata
implementation
● planning digital
library projects
● designing guidelines
/documentation
● electronic resource
management
● metadata quality
control mechanisms

11. Past experience – methods
● workshops
● conferences
● credit course
work
● online delivery
methods

12. Past experience – hours spent
on professional development
● 10-30 hours
● 31-60 hours
● more than
61 hours

13. Past experience – main obstacles
● Lack of time
● Inconvenience
of traveling
● Lack of online
resources
● Lack of financial
resources
● Lack of support
from employer
● Lack of opportunities

14. Interest in future programs
● Metadata quality
control mechanism
● Metadata standards
● Designing guidelines
and documentation
● Writing metadata
requirements

15. Interest in future programs
● Markup languages
● Non-print & special
material cataloging
● Authority control
● Subject/controlled
vocab. standards
● Thesaurus/taxonomy
construction
● Folksonomies

16. Interest in future programs
– methods
● Workshops
● Conferences
● Online tutorials
● Certification program
in a LIS program
● Credit course work
in a LIS program

17. Conclusion
● Interest in pursuing continuing education
● Some current needs not met
● Interest in materials providing guidance
● Preferred methods: workshops, online tutorials
and programs, conferences
● Under-spending on continuing education

18. Continuing education
opportunities in Poland
Courses provided by National Library of Poland
● Subject/controlled vocabulary standards
● Special material cataloging
● MARC 21
● Digital library projects for small and medium
cultural institutions
Source: http://www.bn.org.pl/dla-bibliotekarzy/zebid-bn/oferta-szkoleniowa

19. Thank you
for your attention! Zofia
Federowicz
z.federowicz@student.uw.edu.pl