Description

Good metadata conforms to community standards in ways that are appropriate to the collection's materials, users, and future uses. In so doing, metadata supports interoperability while describing objects and collocating related objects. Examine the processes used to assess metadata quality and learn why some institutions may seek to customize metadata. Learn methods for exchanging and harvesting metadata and how metadata can be transformed between formats. Additional coverage addresses application profiles, the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), metadata crosswalks, and stylesheets.

This course is the third of four courses required to earn the Metadata Principles and Practices micro-credential and should be taken after Metadata Standards and Types.

* This course is eligible for micro-credentialing (optional) - What is micro-credentialing?

1. Complete the following courses
   • Metadata Basics
   • Metadata Standards and Types
   • Metadata Quality, Customization, Exchange, and Transformation
   • Metadata Relationships
2. 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

• List characteristics of quality metadata
• Analyze the role of application profiles in customizing and documenting metadata practices
• Learn methods of exchanging, transforming and migrating metadata

Contact Hours: 2

Location: Online (Technical Requirements)

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