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Metadata 101
1. Metadata 101
An introduction metadata and data management
By Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca
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2. What is Metadata?
Data that provides information
about other data
A collection of structured information
about a document or a piece of content
For example: Author, Title, Subject, Issue
Date, Publisher
4. In fact, the stuff you have may
already have it...
...and you just didn't know it.
5. Purpose of Metadata
● To identify content
● Capture fields and distinguish each document from all others
● Manage content
● Version numbers, archive date, security and access permissions
● Retrieval of content
● Taxonomy topics, subject keywords, document type
● Connect content to other content
● Behavioral metadata captured in transaction (e.g., Amazon)
● Business processes
● Authored by whom? Reviewed by whom and when? Approved by whom and
when?
● Support records management
● Retention periods, disposition cycle
7. However...
Metadata is most useful in collections
Metadata is most useful when shared
Metadata is most useful in collaboration
8. Issues with information access today
● Tons of content from disparate sources
● Cumbersome navigation
● Keyword search assumes that you know what you are
looking for
● Large number of search results – most of them
irrelevant
● Lack of context in search results
● Search engines rely on mathematical algorithms to
determine relevance and ranking of search results
9. Types of Metadata
● Descriptive
●
Describes a resource for discovery and
identification, e.g., abstract, author, keywords
●
Structural
● Indicates how the parts of the resource are
arranged, e.g., chapters in a book
● Administrative
●
Provides information on how to manage a resource,
e.g., when it was created, who has access to it
10. Structural Metadata
● Structural metadata defines the relationship
between whole and parts.
● Structural metadata can also be used for
navigational purposes, e.g., links to related
files.
11. Administrative Metadata
● Administrative metadata provides information
to help manage a resource, such as when and
how it was created, file type, and other
technical information, and who can access it.
●
Most common subsets
●
Rights management metadata
● Preservation metadata
12. Why Metadata?
● Resource discovery
● Organizing electronic resources
● Interoperability
●
Digital identification
●
Archiving and presentation
13. Metadata alone isn't enough...
...even Metadata has to be properly
thought out and properly used.
14. Planning Metadata
● Whose requirements are you trying to meet?
●
Who are your users and what are their
requirements?
●
What is your business case?
● Why should you undertake this project?
● What is your business model?
●
How will this project be worthwhile?
15. Metadata Structure
● Recognized standards
● Local specifications
● Social tagging systems
16. Metadata Quality
● Technical Quality
● Adherence to local or international standards,
specifications, and application profiles
● Semantic Quality
● Proper use of controlled vocabularies and semantic
standards
● Value Quality
● Populating metadata fields appropriately for describing
the resource and its relationships for the benefit of the
user community and other stakeholders
18. Nine Guiding Questions
● Who will be using the collection?
● Who is the collection cataloger?
● How much time and money do you have?
● How will your collection be accessed?
● How is your collection related to other collections?
● What is the scope of your collection?
● Will your metadata be harvested?
● Do you want your collection to work with other collections?
● How much maintenance and quality control do you wish?
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19. Use cases for Metadata
● Resource discovery
● Resource selection
● Resource aggregation and manipulation
● Intellectual property rights
● Digital preservation
● Marketing
● Accessibility
● Interoperability
● Workflow identification
● Reputation (of individuals and organizations)
20. How is Metadata created? By humans...
● Created by resource authors
● Added by resource depositors
● Created, checked, augmented by professionals
● Catalogers
● Subject Experts
● Designated IPR keepers
● Enriched by resource users
● Additional description, comments, annotations, descriptions of usage
● Corrections
● Enrichment (additional subject description)
● Social tagging
● Ratings and recommendations
21. ...or by machines
● Extraction from resource files
● Inferred from resource relationships
● Creation according to system settings
●
Generation of default values
●
Extraction via text mining
22. The need for Metadata standards
● Different information providers using different
metadata schemas
● Even metadata schemas of groups within
organizations are different or out of sync
●
Result
●
Inconsistent search results
● Lack of interoperability
● Information silos
23. Dublin Core
● General purpose metadata standard for use across domains
● 15 core elements
● Element qualifiers to narrow the meaning of elements
● E.g., Date Created vs Date Modified
● Encoding schemes: controlled vocabularies or parsing rules
to refine the interpretation of an element
● Can be represented in HTML and XML (RDF)
● See http://dublincore.org
25. Taxonomy
● A classification scheme
●
Designed to group related things together
●
Semantic
●
Fixed vocabulary that is meaningful to its users
● A knowledge map
●
Should give the user a grasp of the structure of the
knowledge domain
● Establishes relationships between objects
26. Government-related taxonomies
● Australian Governments' Interactive Functions Thesaurus
● Three-level hierarchical thesaurus that describes business functions
carried out through Australian government units
● 25 high-level functions with second and third level terms
● Purpose: to aid online discovery of government information and
services
● Functions of New Zealand and Subjects of New Zealand
● Thesauri for NZ government resources
● Classification of all-of-government level
http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/create-capture-describe/describe/agift/index.aspx
http://www.e.govt.nz/standards/nzgls/thesauri/
28. Remember!
Metadata is most useful in collections
Metadata is most useful when shared
Metadata is most useful in collaboration
29.
30. Sources
●
Metadata Primer (http://www.slideshare.net/selvats/metadata-primer)
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AGIFT (http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/create-capture-describe/describe/classification/agift/index.htm)
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Taxonomy and Metadata (http://www.slideshare.net/dchampeau/taxonomy-and-metadata)
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Understanding Metadata (www.niso.org/standards/resources/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf)
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An Introduction to Metadata (http://www.library.uq.edu.au/iad/ctmeta4.html)
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NZGLS thesauri (http://www.e.govt.nz/standards/nzgls/thesauri/downloads.html)
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If you tag it, will they come? (Sarah Currier)
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Nine questions to guide you in choosing a metadata schema
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