Week 3: Reading Notes

1) Anne J. Gilliland. Introduction to Metadata, pathways to Digital Information: 1: Setting the Stage http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/setting.html 

-Metadata is "data about data."
-Metadata isn't a familiar a term to basic users, although they "are increasingly adept at creating, exploiting, and assessing user-contributed metadata such as Web page title tags, folksonomies, and social bookmarks."
-All information objects have content, context, and structure.

Data structure = MARC
Data value (controlled vocabularies) = LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings)
Data content (cataloguing rules) = AACR, RDA
Data format/technical interchange (manifestation of a data structure) = MARC21, MARCXML

-Context is important to archivists, especially in a museum setting.
-More to metadata than description and resource discovery? (i.e. exhibition catalogs, acquistion records, licensing agreements, educational metadata)
-user-created metadata, folksonomies

Different types of metadata:
-Administrative
-Descriptive
-Preservation
-Technical
-Use

Why is metadata important?
-Accessibility
-Retention of context
-Expanding use
-Learning metadata
-Legal issues
-Preservation

2) Eric J. Miller. An Overview of the Dublin Core Data Model http://dublincore.org/1999/06/06-overview/

-Dublin Core Metadata Iniative (DCMI) strives for consensus for discovery-oriented descriptions across disciplines.

DCMI requirements:
-Internationalization
-Modularization/Extensibility
-Element Identity
-Semantic Refinement
-Specification of controlled vocabularies
-Identification of structured compound values

3) Working with Endnote, http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Tutorials/ENDNOTE/intro.htm

-bibliographic software program
-select a reference library
-choose different citation styles
-sort, find and view references
-Cite While You Write (CWYW) is an Endnote feature accessed in Microsoft Word. You can insert citations at any time during the writing process.
-Instant Formatting