Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval

PART I: METADATA CONCEPTS
1. Introduction

• Overview
• Why metadata?
• Fundamental principles of metadata
• Purposes of metadata
• Why is metadata important?
• Organisation of the book

2. Defining, describing and expressing metadata

• Overview
• Defining metadata
• XML schemas
• Databases of metadata
• Examples of metadata in use
• Conclusion

3. Data modelling

• Overview
• Metadata models
• Unified Modelling Language (UML)
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• Dublin Core
• The Library Reference Model (LRM) and the development of RDA
• ABC ontology and the semantic web
• Indecs - Modelling book trade data
• OAIS - Online exchange of data
• Conclusion

4. Metadata Standards

• Overview
• The nature of metadata standards
• About standards
• Dublin Core - a general-purpose standard
• Metadata standards in library and information work
• Social media
• Non-textual materials
• Complex objects
• Conclusion

PART II: PURPOSES OF METADATA
5. Resource identification and description (Purpose 1)

• Overview
• How do you identify a resource?
• Identifiers
• RFIDs and identification
• Describing resources
• Descriptive metadata
• Conclusion

6. Retrieving information (Purpose 2)

• Overview
• The role of metadata in information retrieval
• Information theory
• Types of information retrieval
• Evaluating retrieval performance
• Retrieval on the internet
• Subject indexing and retrieval
• Metadata and computational models of retrieval
• Conclusion

7. Managing information resources (Purpose 3)

• Overview
• Information lifecycles
• Create or ingest
• Preserve and store
• Distribute and use
• Review and dispose
• Transform
• Conclusion

8. Managing intellectual property rights (Purpose 4)

• Overview
• Rights management
• Provenance
• Conclusion

9. Supporting e-commerce and e-government (Purpose 5)

• Overview
• Electronic transactions
• E-commerce
• Online behavioural advertising
• Indecs and ONIX
• Publishing and the book trade
• E-government
• Conclusion

10. Information governance (Purpose 6)

• Overview
• Governance and risk
• Information governance
• Compliance (freedom of information and data protection)
• E-discovery (legal admissibility)
• Information risk, information security and disaster recovery
• Sectoral compliance
• Conclusion

PART III: MANAGING METADATA
11. Managing metadata

• Overview
• Metadata is an information resource
• Workflow and metadata lifecycle
• Project approach
• Application profiles
• Interoperability of metadata
• Quality considerations
• Metadata security
• Conclusion

12. Taxonomies and encoding schemes

• Overview
• Role of taxonomies in metadata
• Encoding and maintenance of controlled vocabularies
• Thesauri and taxonomies
• Content rules - authority files
• Ontologies
• Social tagging and folksonomies
• Conclusion

13. Very large data collections

• Overview
• The move towards big data
• What is big data?
• The role of linked data in open data repositories
• Data in an organisational context
• Social media, web transactions and online behavioural advertising
• Research data collections
• Conclusion

14. Politics and ethics of metadata

• Overview
• Ethics
• Power
• Money
• Re-examining the purposes of metadata
• Managing metadata itself
• Conclusion