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Professional Development Day for New England Librarians: Metadata Day: Resources

Workshop targeted for New England science, health sciences and engineering librarians features an overview of metadata. Breakout session features local librarians and their metadata/data projects.

Metadata Readings

Diane Hillmann's Recommended Metadata Reads:

Coyle, Karen. "Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata", Library Technology Reports, Jan. 2010 (v. 46, no. 1)

Coyle, Karen. "RDA Vocabularies for a Twenty-First-Century Data Environment", Library Technology Reports, Feb./Mar. 2010 (v. 46, no. 2)

Additional resources:

An Introduction to Metadata by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee, UK)

Introduction to Metadata Online Edition 3.0 edited by Murtha Baca

List of Metadata Standards (appendix in textbook Metadata by Marcia L. Zeng and Jian Qin)

Seeing Standards:  A Visualization of the Metadata Universe  (poster illustrating metadata schema)  

Attendee Notes