Metadata

Data About Data

Karen Coylehttp://www.kcoyle.net

Metadata

Data with a Purpose

Karen Coylehttp://www.kcoyle.net

Metadata is …

Longitude and Latitude

Real planet

Metadata

creator = Karen Coyletitle = Metadata; Data with a Purposedate = June 11, 2007format = MS Powerpointlanguage = Englishrights = Karen Coyle, 2007

MODS

<titleInfo><title>Sound and fury :</title><subTitle>the making of the punditocracy /

</subTitle> </titleInfo>

<name type="personal"> <namePart>Alterman, Eric</namePart> <role> <roleTerm type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name>

OpenURL

http://sfxserver.uni.edu/sfxmenu?issn=1234-5678&date=1998&volume=12&issue=2&spage=134 &author=smith jh&title=review of the literature

http://sfxserver.uni.edu/sfxmenu?issn=1234-5678&date=1998&volume=12&issue=2&spage=134&author=smith jh&title=review of the literature

MARC21

metaDATA

MARC21

FRBR User Tasks

• find

• identify

• select

• obtain

Professor Burke’s Wishlist

• tools that recognize existing clusters of knowledge; if you find a book using LCSH, you probably already know it existed.

• tool that recognizes the conversation the book was in. those that were written after the book came out and have continued the conversation.

• tools that know lines of descent; chronology of publications; later readers determine connection between texts

• tools that find unknown connections (full text search; topic maps?)• tools that produce serendipity -- hidden connections.• tools that inform me of authority

• tools that know about real world usage (those who bought x bought y; how many people checked this out?)

• tools that know about the sociology of knowledge; the pedigrees of authors: who were they trained by, how long ago; how trustworthy is this institution?

WorldCat Identities

Services

• Alert

• Annotate

• Archive

• Ask

• Authenticate

• Authorise

• Contribute

• Pay

• Personalise

• Rate

• Register

• Request

•Find

•Harvest

•Lend

•Locate

•Map

•Monitor

•Reserve

•Resolve

•Save

•Supply

•Translate

•Validate

RDA

aka: Resource Description and Access

aka: AACR3

Where are we now? And where might we be going?

RDA + DCMI Project

Wrap-Up/Summary

Thanks! Questions?

kcoyle@kcoyle.net