Stephanie Taylor (UKOLN) – Metadata Forum

Repository Fringe 2011 Edinburgh 4/August/2011 UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat) The Metadata Forum Stephanie Taylor, UKOLN, University of Bath

About Me
Stephanie Taylor:
Work with UKOLN as a research officer
Work on the practical side of institutional repositories
Run the Metadata Forum
UKOLN:
National centre of expertise in digital information management
Located at the University of Bath

The Metadata Forum
Run by UKOLN
Funded by JISC
Aims to build a community of practice around metadata
Forum blog - http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/themetadataforum/

The Forum Is…
For everyone who uses metadata in their work, in any way
For any level of knowledge & experience

Launch - July 2010
Open Repositories Conference, Madrid
Decided on a way to start running the Forum
Community led
14 people attended

What happened?
People from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the USA
Discussed complexity v simplicity
Future themed meetings agreed
Image from The Freddy Portfolio, under Creative Commons Licensing.*

Repo Fringe 2010
Round Table session
Metadata for time-based objects
Aggregation of metadata
Helped by Sheile Fraser of EDINA

AgLR-TF
Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force (AgLR-TF)
Ran session with Jackie Wickham of RSP
Basic metadata startup
Interesting…

Complex Objects, York
Images
Audio & video
Learning & teaching objects

Picture This!
Dev8D+
Hack event
Practitioners & developers working together

Perfect Partners
Developer Challenge over 3 days
Embedded geospatial image metadata within map images
Dynamically modified images to include a logo displaying the licence

What Did We Learn?
Gap between novice & expert
People need to talk!
Much more to explore…

What’s Next?
JISC funding for another 12 months
New programme
Same informal, community-led approach

Ideas..
Gap between novice & expert
People need to talk!
Much more to explore…

More Focussed Meetings
Images
Music
Scientific Data
What else?

Micro Communities?
Areas of shared expertise
Smaller comunities of interest
Place to go for hands-on help

Online Workshops?
Currently working on Dublin Core workshop
Trial as online resource as well as face-to-face
Useful?

Join In…
Let me know -
What you want to find out about
What you could share knowledge on
Any ideas at all!

Talk…
Blog - http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/themetadataforum/
Twitter - @metadataforum
Email - s.taylor@ukoln

Thankyou! The Metadata Forum Stephanie Taylor Research Officer UKOLN, University of Bath E - [email_address]

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