This suite of four integrated metadata workshops introduces core topics for those interested in creating quality metadata for digital projects, including digital humanities projects.
Metadata, “data about data”, is one strategy for ensuring the proper storage, discovery, retrieval, and sharing of data across time and space. Being able to find and access things is simpler if we are organized. In addition, we need to be ethical and think about the impact of metadata on the people, places, and objects being described: what are the social, economic, and political consequences of the words chosen to describe data? Does metadata play a role in the way we see the world and each other?
This series of workshops introduces researchers to thinking critically about the basics of metadata creation and use. The suite of four workshops covers these topics:
1. The nature and purpose of metadata
2. Metadata schemas: Using Dublin Core
3. Digital curation I: Using Omeka and Dublin Core
4. Digital curation II: Using Mukurtu and Dublin Core
Learning outcomes
At the end of these workshops, participants will be able to:
(1) Define and think critically about the creation and use of metadata.
(2) Identify one metadata schema and apply these standards to describing digital objects.
(3) Create a set of descriptors for a set of digital objects using Dublin Core.
(4) Critically assess the use of Dublin Core for two digital repository platforms: Omeka and Mukurtu.
Location, dates, times
There are four sessions in this suite of workshops on the creation and use of metadata. The sessions will be delivered in person and will be held in Room 252A, on the second/main floor of the MacOdrum Library (behind the coffee shop).
Sessions
- Metadata basics
- Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
- Metadata schemas: Using Dublin Core
- Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
- Digital Curation I: Using Omeka & Dublin Core
- Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
- Digital Curation II: Using Mukurtu & Dublin Core
- Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Pre-workshop activities
For each week there are pre-workshop activities which involve completing assigned readings and/or videos. Click on the appropriate weekly module to access these materials.
Complete this pre-course survey by Monday, June 2, 2025 at 5 p.m.