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"Metadata for You & Me" is a collaboration between the University of Illinois Library and Indiana University, funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This project focuses on the principles of shareable metadata, emphasizing quality, interoperability, and usability across diverse contexts. It supports the creation of multiple views for various audiences and ensures coherence and communication standards. Available resources include workshop slides, reference materials, and curriculum developed from leading digital library practices.
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Metadata for You & Me Section 4:Defining Shareable Metadata: Foundations http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/mym/ Metadata for You & Me is a collaboration between the University of Illinois Library and Indiana University.This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.
Shareable Metadata… • Is quality metadata • Promotes search interoperability - “the ability to perform a search over diverse sets of metadata records and obtain meaningful results” (Priscilla Caplan) • Is human understandable outside of its local context • Is useful outside of its local context • Preferably is machine processable
Shareable Metadata as a View • Metadata is not monolithic • Metadata should be a view projected from a single information object • Create multiple views appropriate for groups of important sharing venues • Depends on: • Use • Audience
Choice of vocabularies as a view • Names • ULAN: Master of the Strache Altar • LC: L. Cz. (Lorenz Katzheimer), Meister • Places • LCSH: Springfield (Ill.) • TGN: Springfield • Subjects • LCSH: Neo-impressionism (Art) • AAT: Pointillism
The Cs & Ss of Shareable Metadata Content Coherence Context Communication Consistency Conformance to Standards
Metadata for You & Me Online • http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/mym/ • What’s available: • Workshop slides in Powerpoint format • Brief textual versions of workshop materials • Supplemental materials such as references, links, and activities • Up next: Section 4: Defining Shareable Metadata: Content
Credits • The development of the Metadata for You & Me curriculum was funded through a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarianship grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services • The content for this course grew out of work sponsored by the Digital Library Federation and National Science Digital Library to develop best practices for use of OAI-PMH and shareable metadata • We would also like to thank: • Richard Urban, MYM Project Manager • Institutions hosting on-site workshops • …and all participants in the online and on-site workshops for your valuable contributions towards the evolution of this training program This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.