Links to the sources of examples
The star* = newly updated* or added**
Figure 1-1-1 A food label as a metadata description for a single item [image] according to FDA Food Labeling Guide ....... 4
![[image]](http://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-public/documents/image/ucm070108.gif){kind=link}
Figure 1-1-2 "Leonardo da Vinci" Knowledge Graph from Google (or search Google by yourself) and Infobox from Wikipedia ..... 6
Figure 1-1-3 A digitized book Biodiversity Heritage Library ..... 8
Figure 1-1-4 A recovered stolen art work documented in the INTERPOL *online database ..... 9
Figure 1-1-5 Annotated screenshot of the filtering search result for the
query "Raphael", from Europeana #OnThisDay ..... 10
Figure 1-4-1 A screenshot of a metadata instance for a satellite map image,
viewing through Adobe Bridge metadata template ..... 22
*Figure 1-5-1 Types of metadata standard: for data structures, data contents, data values, and data exchange ..... 23
Figure 1-5-2 Illustration of the relationships among various types of standards:
*for data contents: Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO);
for data structures: CDWA and VRA Core;
data values: ULAN, TGN, AAT, and LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials ..... 25
Figure 1-7-2 The Metadata etc. web site: Front-end landing page, back-end page source (->view source), and "Page Info" interpreted into human readable format by the browser ..... 30
Figure 1-7-5 A metadata description template and the configuration at the back-end on ContentDM .....33
Figure 1-7-6 A metadata description example as seen from the front-end of eCommons@Cornell ..... 35
Figure 1-7-7 A metadata description about a plant drawing, as seen from the front-end of the online Botany Collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ..... 35
Exercises
These exercises are designed to help you to become more familiar with metadata
descriptions.
1. First, use structured data to describe yourself (e.g., name, degree
program, interests, and any other special elements you would like to
include) without following any standard. Then, employ Friend of a
Friend (FOAF), one of the standards mentioned in section 1.3, to
describe yourself, using a template: FOAF-a-Matic).
- Fill out the form at FOAF-a-Matic
http://www.ldodds.com/foaf/foaf-a-matic.html - Click on FOAF ME
- Copy the generated FOAF description --> paste it into a file, name it as "myfoaf.rdf"
- Example: Tim Berners-Lee's FOAF file http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card.rdf
2. Compare and analyze a variety of metadata instances found in real
cases, including:
Tips: To view 'source' from a browser: Chrome: View -->Developer-->View Source ; Firefox: Tools-->Web Developer -->Page Source
. To find out if the page has embedded metadata without viewing the source code: Firefox: Tools-->Page Info
- Web sites
- IBM: English-UK https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/ , Spanish https://www.ibm.com/es-es/ , Greek https://www.ibm.com/gr-el/ , etc. --> view source
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech) --> Collection of Open Digital Archives--> a report's metadata record --> view source
- PDF, Word files, iTune
- Open a WORD file from your computer, choose File --> Properties
- Open a PDF file from your computer, or download this one NISO: Understanding Metadata, open from your computer, choose File --> Properties
- Click on a file from your iTune playlist, choose File --> Get Info
- Digital collections
- Europeana https://www.europeana.eu/ --> search "Olympics" --> filter by video | filter by country | filter by copy right | filter by language
- Knowledge Graphs
- Wikipedia Infoboxes
- Wikipedia --> search "Leonardo da Vinci" --> view the Infobox on right
Readings
The star* = newly updated* or added**
Duval, Erik, Wayne Hodgins, Stuart Sutton, and Stuart L. Weibel. 2002. "Metadata Principles and Practicalities." D-Lib Magazine 8 (4). doi: 10.1045/april2002-weibel http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/weibel/04weibel.html
*Gilliland, Anne J. 2016. “Setting the Stage.” In Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information, 3rd ed., edited by Murtha Baca. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust.
https://www.getty.edu/publications/intrometadata/setting-the-stage/.
*NISO. 2004. Understanding Metadata. Bethesda, MD: NISO Press. https://www.niso.org/publications/understanding-metadata
**[Replaced by ]NISO. 2017. *Understanding Metadata: What is Metadata, and What is it For?: A Primer https://www.niso.org/publications/understanding-metadata-2017
Weibel, Stuart, Jean Godby, Eric Miller, and Ron Daniel. 1995. OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop Report.
*http://xml.coverpages.org/metadata.html