WK1: What is metadata?

Instructional video: Metadata basics for the humanities

This 13.17-minute video introduces the basics of metadata: what it is, why we create it, who creates it, and how it is created.

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Video transcript Metadata basics for the humanities (PDF). Download this text version to follow along. 

Slides (featured in the video)