A talk at the Wellcome Institute's Digitisation Doctor event for organisations in the digitisation process.
What is metadata?
why do you need it?
what does it look like?
How do you create it?
Putting it on the web
Full talk notes are at http://www.cookinrelaxin.com/2013/06/a-short-introduction-to-metadata.html
4. Information about something, usually
structured
In this case, information about the thing
you’re digitising
For humans or computers
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5. A book
Title
Author
Date of publication
ISBN identifier
Dewey Decimal Number (on a library)
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17. Standards are good
Someone’s already defined it
Software probably supports it
It’s interoperable
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18. Dublin Core
Title Format
Creator Identifier
Subject Source
Description Language
Publisher Relation
Contributor Coverage
Date Rights
Type
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19. Where is the metadata?
In the digital file
In a database, linked to the digital file
And online?
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25. Computers
Images to text (OCR)
Keyword and topic extraction from text
Machine translation
Speech-to-text from audio
Speaker identification and diarisation
Harder
Face detection in images or video
Object and scene recognition
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