introduction to metadata for idah fellows
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Riley, Jenn. “Introduction to Metadata for IDAH Fellows.” Presentation to Indiana University Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities staff and faculty fellows, April 9, 2010.TRANSCRIPT
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Introduction to metadata for IDAH fellowsJenn RileyMetadata LibrarianDigital Library Program
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Many definitions of metadata•“Data about data”•“Structured information about an information
resource of any media type or format.” (Caplan)
•“Structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an information resource.” (NISO)
•“Metadata is constructed, constructive, and actionable.” (Coyle)
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Some uses of metadata• By information specialists
▫ Describing “non-traditional” materials▫ Cataloging Web sites▫ Navigating within digital objects▫ Managing digital objects over the long term
• By novices▫ Preparing Web sites for search engines▫ Depositing materials into an institutional repository▫ Managing citation lists▫ iTunes▫ Tagging – flickr, del.icio.us, etc.▫ LibraryThing
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Good metadata…
•Meets a defined purpose•Conforms to accepted standards and/or
best practices•Is created as close to the source as
possible•Doesn’t have to be created by humans
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Metadata formats• Predefined sets of features likely to be necessary
or useful for a specific purpose• Choosing a format others also use improves
interoperability• Can be:
▫Official standards▫Backed by professional organization▫Backed by trusted institution▫Locally developed
• In the library world, most referred to by acronyms: MARC, MODS, DC, METS, TEI, EAD…
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Creating and storing metadata
•HTML <meta> tags•Spreadsheets•Databases•XML•Library catalogs•Specialized user interfaces for a specific
type of content•Digital library/content management
systems
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Some types of metadata
•Descriptive metadata•Technical metadata•Structural metadata•Markup languages
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Descriptive metadata• A description of a resource for display to users
• Provides the context they need to understand a resource
• For discovery▫ Includes both search and browse▫ In a controlled environment designed to match
target users with interesting resources▫Pushed out to the network for others to make use
of• Can be both objective and subjective• Usually human-generated
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Some possibilities relevant to IDAH projects• Date
▫ That a work was performed▫ That an interview was conducted
• Geographic places in support of a map-based interface• Topics discussed in an interview• Language of the text of a musical work• Likely browse entry points such as genre of musical
composition• Links to supplementary content
▫ Ephemera▫ Source materials▫ Original interpretive text and scholarly annotation
• How will users find representations of your output on the Web?
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Descriptive metadata for discovery
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Descriptive metadata – an example
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Descriptive metadata – another example
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Technical metadata
•Allows systems to manage and process resources in appropriate ways
•Essential for the preservation of digital materials
•Generally format-specific•Generally machine-generated•Not the digital resource itself, but
essential information required to understand it
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Some possibilities relevant to IDAH projects•Lighting systems in use during a
performance•Playback information for audio files•Movements and shapes represented in a
virtualized representation•CAD or other 3-D rendering data•What data is needed to understand your
digital files into the future?
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Technical metadata example4/9/2010IDAH Seminar
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Structural metadata
•Describes relationships▫Points of interest within a resource▫Between parts and wholes▫Between different representations of the
same content▫When resources should be presented in
sequence▫When resources should be presented in
parallel•Often machine generated
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Some possibilities relevant to IDAH projects•Connecting together the primary source
documents that influence an artistic performance with media documenting the performance itself
•Performance plan vs. audio recording vs. video recording
•Gathering source data from which a visualization is created
•How will users move within and between resources that your project will provide?
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Structural metadata – an example
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Structural metadata – another example
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Markup languages
•Mix metadata with data (resource content)
•Insert flags into arepresentation of the content of a resource, signaling what bits of content are or what they mean
•Generally have a “header” with descriptive metadata too
•Either human- or machine-generated
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Some possibilities relevant to IDAH projects•Detailed structural annotation of an
interview transcript•Documenting and preserving musical
notation approximating an innovative performance
•Do the resources you provide need documentation of their internal structure and meaning?
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Markup languages – an example
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Markup languages – another example
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What next?• What do you want to deliver as an end product to
students and researchers?• What from your project is it important to
preserve into the future?• How could structured metadata support the
goals of your IDAH fellowship project?• How can the metadata creation/use tools and
metadata expertise in the DLP help you?
Presentation slides: <http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/presentations/
idah2010/metadata.ppt>
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