1. Metadata Data About Data Karen Coyle http://www.kcoyle.net

2. Metadata Data with a Purpose Karen Coyle http://www.kcoyle.net

3. Metadata is …

4. Longitude and Latitude Real planet Metadata

8. creator = Karen Coyle title = Metadata; Data with a Purpose date = June 11, 2007 format = MS Powerpoint language = English rights = Karen Coyle, 2007

9. MODS Sound and fury : the making of the punditocracy / Alterman, Eric creator

10. 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

11. MARC21

12. metaDATA

13. metaDATA today is… … on a computer…. … that is on the Internet … … where the Web is the primary application for delivery of resources to users

14. metaDATA Rigorous Solves a problem It furthers an activity Computable

16. MARC21

17. FRBR User Tasks find identify select obtain

18. 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?

22. WorldCat Identities

26. 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

27. RDA aka: Resource Description and Access aka: AACR3

36. Where are we now? And where might we be going? RDA + DCMI Project

37. Wrap-Up/Summary

38. Thanks! Questions? kcoyle@kcoyle.net