Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Metadata Principles & Practices 3: Customization & Exchange

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Presented by: Bill Walker

This third workshop in the "Metadata Principles and Practices" series covers the processes by which institutions customize existing metadata standards, exchange and harvest metadata, transform metadata from one standard to another and migrate metadata to a newer standard. Topics to be covered include: metadata quality factors, application profiles, the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, metadata crosswalks and stylesheets.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand why institutions want to customize metadata

• Analyze the role of application profiles in customizing application profiles

• Understand the role of XML namespaces

• Outline the process of creating an application profile

• Learn methods of exchanging, transforming and migrating metadata