Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information

If you use nearly any digital technology, you make use of metadata. Usean ATM today? You interacted with metadata about your account. Searchedfor songs in iTunes or Spotify? You used metadata about those songs. Weuse and even create metadata constantly, but we rarely realize it. Metadata-- or data about data -- describes real and digital objects, so that thoseobjects may be organized now and found later.

Metadata is a tool that enables the information age functions performedby humans as well as those performed by computers. Metadata is importantto many fields, particularly Computer Science; but this course is not purelya Computer Science course. This course approaches Metadata from the perspectiveof Information Science, which is a broad interdisciplinary field that studieshow people create and manage information.

Unit 1: Organizing Information
Unit 2: Dublin Core
Unit 3: How to Build a Metadata Schema
Unit 4: Alphabet Soup: Metadata Schemas That You (Will) Know and Love
Unit 5: Metadata for the Web
Unit 6: Metadata for Networks
Unit 7: How to Create Metadata
Unit 8: How to Evaluate Metadata