The Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick is
offering a Summer Seminar Series of five workshops exploring issues in
Scholarly Communication. Included in this years' series is a three-day
workshop, "Building Metadata Application Profiles", with Diane Hillmann,
Cornell University.
The registration deadline for the Summer Seminar Series is June 30.
Visit our Summer Seminar Series Website at:
http://www.lib.unb.ca/workshop2005 for registration, workshop and
accommodation information.
Please see below for further details:
Alan Burk
Director, Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick
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Building Metadata Application Profiles
Instructor: Diane Hillmann
August 4-6, 2005
Increasingly, projects with metadata requirements are considering
constructing application profiles to define and document their metadata
needs. Application profiles specify metadata choices, sometimes taken
from more than one element set, combined with local policies and
guidelines. This course will provide a practical, hands-on investigation
into application profiles and their issues. Topics will include
investigating some sample profiles (such as the Dublin Core library and
collection description schemas); the concepts of namespaces and
registries; controlled vocabularies; and options for metadata
interchange. Participants will be expected to build a profile of their
choosing, hopefully, related to a real life need. Sessions will consist
of lectures, small group sessions, and individual activity, with each
participant presenting his or her results for comment and suggestion at
the end of the course.
Day One
I. Basic Introduction to Metadata Schemas
a. What's a term? What's a value?
b. Why properties matter
c. Interoperability
d. The Dublin Core Abstract Model
II. What's an Application Profile?
a. Definition and purposes
b. Enforcing metadata quality
c. Constraints and caveats
d. Exercise: Review of AP examples
III. Basic decisions
a. Determining AP scope and purpose
b. Choosing a basic schema (format)
c. Using a template
d. Setting up documentation, decision making and internal review
processes
e. Maintaining realistic expectations (metadata quality measure)
f. Standardization/external review
g. Exercise: Review template
Day Two
IV. Introduction to technical issues
a. XML and XML schemas
b. Namespaces and URIs
c. Metadata interchange: OAI
V. Components of an AP
a. Human readable documentation
i. Property descriptions and relationships
ii. Domain specific instructions
iii. Best practices
iv. Obligations and occurrences
v. Datatypes
b. Machine readable requirements
VI. Using properties from other schemas
a. Decision tree for determining reusability of terms
b. Legitimizing re-use
c. Caveats and cautions
d. Exercise: Exploring term usage in sample APs
VII. Creating new properties in an AP context
a. Declaring new properties
b. Documenting new properties
c. Term registration options
VIII. Value Vocabularies
a. Choosing appropriate vocabularies (or subsets)
b. Declaring extant vocabularies in metadata
c. Registering local vocabularies and terms
d. Assigning Term URIs
Day Three
IX. Wrap-up
a. Remaining questions
X. Presentations and critiques
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Susan Oliver
Program Coordinator - 2005 Summer Series
UNB Libraries
PO Box 7500
Fredericton, NB
E3B 5H5
Phone: (506) 452-6103
Fax: (506) 453-4595
email: [log in to unmask]
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