Metadata
During our meeting on January 19th, we discussed various types of
metadata, including administrative, structural, and descriptive
metadata. We also chatted a bit about the use of metadata for resource
discovery and data structuring. Here, libraries (including the work of Howard Besser) were at the center of our discussion. So, too, were notions such as serendipity and speculation.
This module should give you some practice with Dublin Core (DC), one
of the ontologies we discussed. It helps that Dublin Core is integrated
into the Scalar workflow and is intimately linked (pun intended) to the
Resource Description Framework (RDF).
Learning Outcomes
For you to:
- Develop a familiarity with the DC ontology,
- Encounter some common issues faced when assigning metadata to digital images, video, and audio,
- Articulate how you addressed those issues, and
- Begin thinking (if nothing else) about your project for this seminar.
What You Should Include in Your Response (500 – 1000 words + two images and one video or audio file)
First, to Scalar, please import two images and one video or audio
file that are somehow related to your ongoing research in English and/or
CSPT. (Ideally, they are also related to a possible project for this
seminar.) At least one of these three resources must be created by
someone other than you, and it must already exist on the web.
Next, in Scalar, please assign the following fifteen DC “legacy” elements to each resource:
Title, Subject, Description, Type,
Source, Relation, Coverage, Creator, Publisher, Contributor, Rights,
Date, Format, Identifier, and Language
When editing a resource in Scalar, these DC elements are accessed by
clicking “add additional metadata” (below the page’s title, description,
URL, and default view fields but above the authoring pane) and then
selecting the element you want from the “Dublin Core legacy elements”
list. See the screenshot below for an example.
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