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Course Meeting Times
Monday 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, SZB 546
Course Description
This course will focus upon constructing the "metadata continuum"--all elements of metadata collected about a digital object or generated as part of it during its lifetime--in order to understand how metadata may function as an authenticating wrapper for digital objects (including electronic records, digital artworks, digitized images, etc.). To this end we will review concepts like authenticity and provenance as an introduction to working through the full range of metadata that a digital object might have when managed in various environments and for various purposes. Elements of the continuum that will be taken up and analyzed include records surveys and inventories, creation metadata, active management metadata, records schedules, accession metadata, cataloging and description metadata, maintenance and preservation metadata, digital rights management metadata, and usage metadata. Elements of these metadata sets will be analyzed as to function and meaning and harmonized into a workable metadata regime. Students will be exposed to major metadata initiatives, both within and without the library/archives/museum fields, and will critique their products with reference to the metadata continuum they have constructed. We will also discuss the implications of user-supplied metadata (tagging), harvesting of implicit and explicit metadata, and how metadata is meant to work in the Semantic Web environment.
Professor: Dr. Patricia K. Galloway
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galloway@ischool.utexas.edu |
| Phone: |
(512) 232-9220 |
| Office: |
SZB 566 |
| Office Hours: |
9:00 a.m -11:00 a.m Tuesday or by appointment |
| Contact |
Please use email in preference to telephone |
Teaching Assistant: Dana Lamparello
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DMLamparello@aol.com |
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