Metadata For Digital Libraries: Spring 2014

Instructor:

Rick J. Block

School:

Long Island University

Semester:

Spring 2014

Description:

This course provides students opportunities to learn, evaluate, and apply principles of metadata for a variety of digital resources. This course will cover metadata terminology, content and encoding schemes, applications of metadata standards for different purposes and environments, especially for digital libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage and scholarly digital repositories, as well as various approaches to metadata creation, storage, management, and dissemination, including harvesting and aggregating. Includes overviews of metadata applications including Dublin Core, Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), VRA Core, Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) and Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO). Overview includes metadata formats; descriptive detail for different forms of material; choice and form of entry for creators; provision of authority control for creators; subject analysis, subject metadata, and thesauri. Additional topics include the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS), metadata interoperability, metadata quality and OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).

Required Textbook:

No required textbook.

Link to Syllabus:

http://palmerblog.liu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/LIS763SyllabusSpring14.pdf

Principles and Practices in Archival Description (DACS/EAD): Summer 2013

Instructor:

Rick J. Block

School:

Long Island University

Semester:

Summer 2013

Description:

Explores the principles of archival description as expressed in Describing Archives: A Content Standard. Implementation of those principles through Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and MARC structures will form the largest portion of the semester. Other practices will include authority and subject analysis work. Other topics, issues, and technologies include related standards, the history and development of archival description, the uses of description, and an introduction to Encoded Archival Context-Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF).

Required Textbook:

No required textbook.

Link to Syllabus:

http://palmerblog.liu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/LIS705SyllabusSummer13.pdf

Metadata: Description and Access: Fall 2010

Instructor:

Rick J. Block

School:

Long Island University

Semester:

Spring 2014

Description:

This course provides students opportunities to learn, evaluate, and apply principles of metadata for a variety of digital resources. This course will cover metadata terminology, content and encoding schemes, applications of metadata standards for different purposes and environments, especially for digital libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage and scholarly digital repositories, as well as various approaches to metadata creation, storage, management, and dissemination, including harvesting and aggregating. Includes overviews of metadata applications including Dublin Core, Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), VRA Core, Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) and Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO). Overview includes metadata formats; descriptive detail for different forms of material; choice and form of entry for creators; provision of authority control for creators; subject analysis, subject metadata, and thesauri. Additional topics include the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS), metadata interoperability, metadata enhancement and OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).

Required Textbook:

No required textbook.

Link to Syllabus:

http://palmerblog.liu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/LIS763SyllabusSpring14.pdf