Our introduction to metadata for the purposes of the "WHY metadata for MY resources" workshop in TELSS 2010 in Ohrid, FYROM

1. WHY metadata for MY resources?
Nikos Palavitsinis
Hannes Ebner
Nikos Manouselis
Photos from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nathan_y/2635017968/
& http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakingtiger/3157622824/sizes/o/

2. Welcome
• Intro to metadata & application profiles
• Quick usage guide for the Confolio Tool
• Hands on metadata annotation using Confolio
• Using metrics to evaluate metadata quality
• Interactive session on quality of metadata
• Short questionnaire on the session
– Yes, another one… Sorry!
– Your chance for revenge!

3. Rules
• Laptops will be needed
• Banned programs & apps (unless requested):
Skype, Firefox, IE, Chrome, Outlook, Thunderbird, whole MS
Office suite (all versions), Messenger (of any kind), AUTOCAD,
VLC media player (and all media players), paint, any other
game, programming suites, calculator, notepad, wordpad,
acrobat reader, winzip, winrar, minesweeper…

4. Intro to metadata

5. Definition
• “Metadata is structured information that:
– Describes,
– Explains,
– Locates,
– Makes it easier to retrieve & use
– Helps in managing
...an information resource”*
*NISO (2004) Understanding Metadata. Bethesda, NISO Press

6. Metadata is everywhere
• We can have metadata on:
– HTML documents, digital images, books, museum
objects,
– Services, physical places, people, institutions,
abstract “works”, concepts, events
– Metadata themselves
– …

7. 7/13
name: Ariadne & George
description: the twins
keywords: twins,
Manouselis, menace, smelly
format: babies
date: 11/2008
creators: Polly, Nikos M.
location: Crete, Greece

8. Purpose
• Resource discovery & integration,
• Organize electronic resources,
• Facilitate interoperability
• Provide digital identification,
• Support archiving & preservation
*NISO (2004) Understanding Metadata. Bethesda, NISO Press

9. Metadata Elements
• Each information resource is described by
using specific data items
• These data items are called Elements

10. Metadata Schemas
• “A metadata scheme is a sets of metadata
elements designed for a specific purpose, such
as describing a particular type of information
resource”*
*NISO (2004) Understanding Metadata. Bethesda, NISO Press

11. Evolution
element
element
element
element
element
Metadata Scheme
Used by one
publishing house
Used by many
publishing houses
Metadata Specification Metadata Standard
Adopted by Standards’
Organization

12. Evolution
Used in specific
community
E.g. Publishing houses of
medical books
Metadata Application ProfileMetadata Standard
Metadata Specification
Profiled
Refined
Adapted

13. Application Domains
• Libraries
• Agriculture
• Museums
• Education
• Environment
• Architecture
• …you name it…