FW: Online Metadata CE Course: Jan-Mar 2016
[Please excuse duplication in posting] Metadata for Digital Collections Eight-week online continuing education course Dates: January 19 - March 11, 2016 Registration opens: Friday, December 18, 2015 (available at URL below) Registration deadline: Friday, January 8, 2016, 6:00 PM CST Fees: $350 registration ($300 students) + required text (approximately $80) Instructor: Steven J. Miller This eight-week online course provides a substantial introduction to creating and managing descriptive metadata for digital collections in libraries, archives, and museums. It includes hands-on exercises in creating metadata for digital images and other resources using Dublin Core and MODS, and to a lesser extent, VRA. Participants will be introduced to commonly-used controlled vocabularies for digital collections, as well as to XML, OAI, metadata harvesting, mapping, interoperability, and quality, and to a small extent, metadata in the context of Linked Data and the Semantic Web. The course will also cover metadata standards selection, local metadata scheme design, and documentation in the form of application profiles. For more information about the course and registration, see: https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/mll/www/MDC.html ---------- Posted by Steven J. Miller UWM School of Information Studies mll@uwm.edu -- *********************************************************************** AUTOCAT quoting guide: http://www.cwu.edu/~dcc/Autocat/copyright.html E-mail AUTOCAT listowners: autocat-request@listserv.syr.edu Search AUTOCAT archives: http://listserv.syr.edu/archives/autocat.html By posting messages to AUTOCAT, the author does not cede copyright ***********************************************************************
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Joanne Rowan