Metadata

Understanding where we are at implementing metadata and learning some of the schema that are most important for our work, and carry on using metadata for giving information about the information we are presenting on the web.

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1. Metadata Metadata Our responsibility to better data and data discovery
2. Maricris Nonato Maricris Nonato SEASONED RoR DEVELOPER / SEASONED RoR DEVELOPER / IT MANAGER IT MANAGER @maricris_sn
3. what is metadata?
4. Source: http://maricrisnonato.com
5. Photo by: Bahman Farzad ( ) http://www.flickr.com/photos/21644167@N04/2279333319/
6. http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/
7. http://creativecommons.org/choose/
8. What it is: What it is: Data about THE data It can be descriptive, structural or administrative It may apply to an item or a collection of items Some are embedded, while some are linked Audience also defines metadata to be classified as human- readable vs machine-readable Most importantly, it can be described in a way that can be controlled or uncontrolled
9. How do you describe/define How do you describe/define things? things?
10. How do you describe/define How do you describe/define things? things? Use a dictionary!
11. How do you describe/define How do you describe/define things? things? Use a dictionary! Use relationships!
12. Thesauri Examples Thesauri Examples
13. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html
14. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/
15. Enter schemas Enter schemas
17. Dublin Core Metadata Schema http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/
21. Understanding the play between Understanding the play between the famous acronyms the famous acronyms
22. XML XML HTML HTML RDF RDF
23. Hippie Pancakes Hippie Pancakes http://www.happy-monkey.net/recipes/html/pancakes.html
24. html and xhtml are variations of html and xhtml are variations of xml xml
25. Xml (and its flavors) can be Xml (and its flavors) can be described by DTDs described by DTDs
26. resource description framework resource description framework
27. Triples in RDF Triples in RDF
29. General standards available General standards available - body of standards for biological diversity - categories for description of works of art - art and architecture thesaurus - thesaurus for graphic materials - thesaurus for geographic names - exchangeable image file format Darwin Core CDWA AAT TGM TGN EXIF
30. Other interesting standards to Other interesting standards to use use format - javascript object notation - structured data with relationships JSON Microformats Schema.org Open Graph Protocol Creative Commons License Twitter Cards
31. Your mission, should you choose Your mission, should you choose to accept it.. to accept it..
32. Is to make more data Is to make more data discoverable, reusable, more discoverable, reusable, more meaningful and contributing to meaningful and contributing to the growth of the semantic web the growth of the semantic web by properly using metadata. by properly using metadata.
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