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Metadata Management

Session
Introduction
Andy Powell & Brian Kelly
UKOLN, University of Bath
a.powell@ukoln.ac.uk
b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
UKOLN is funded by the British Library Research and Innovation Centre, the
Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher Education Funding
Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC’s Electronic Libraries
Programme and the European Union.
UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based.
Session aims?
• identify why metadata is needed
• review current metadata standards
• gain experience with Dublin Core
• discuss models for managing
metadata
• agree on steps forward
• opportunity to see examples of
metadata tools and applications

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Agenda
• introductions
• case studies
• group work
• metadata standards
• hands-on metadata tools
• group discussion
• metadata management models
• where to from here?

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What do you already know?
• metadata?
• HTML <META> tags?
• using them?
• Dublin Core?
• using it?
• webmaster?
• local search engines?

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Alta Vista metadata example
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>UKOLN Home Page</TITLE>
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="national centre,
network information support, library community,
awareness, research, information services, public
library networking, bibliographic management,
distributed library systems, metadata, resource
discovery, conferences, lectures, workshops">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="UKOLN is a national
centre for support in network information management
in the library and information communities. It
provides awareness, research and information
services">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
...

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Metadata in ac.uk homes
• not much use of metadata other
than “Alta Vista” type - 149 sites

Metadata Type Oct 1997 Jul 1998

Alta Vista 54 74
Metadata

Dublin Core 2 2

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Group work...
• groups of 5.
• introduce yourselves.
• discuss…

what do you want from this session?

• report back.

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Case study 1
• resource discovery
• how well is your site indexed by Alta
Vista?
• what sort of local search engine do
you have?
• what sorts of searches does it
support? keywords? author?
resource type? others?

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Case study 2
• administration metadata
• can you find out of date information?
• review-by dates?

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Group work
• defining administrative metadata
attributes
• using Dublin Core for university
home page
• defining vocabularies for ‘subject
keywords’ and ‘types of resources’

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