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Fall 2020 |
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INLS 720-01W INLS 720 Schedule |
Instructor: Cliff Missen |
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Course Schedule
The schedule is subject
to change. It’s possible that items will be added or deleted
through the term.
Week 1 - Metadata Basics: Introduction (Tuesday. Aug. 11) What is metadata and why should we care about it? Material: Video: Instructor Intro (Slides) Syllabus Forum (Deadline 8/21/2020)
Readings: Gilliland, 2016; Greenberg, 2009; (Optional: Metadata Basics (Zeng))
Week 2 - Metadata Basics: Entities and identifiers (Tuesday. Aug. 18) What is being described? How can entities be persistently identified? Material: Video: Emily the Entity (Slides) Video: What is Metadata? (Slides) Forum (Deadline 8/25/2020)
Readings: Kent (ch. 1); Sanger-Katz, 2016; About Group 1 entities; Coyle, 2006; Thompson, 2010; (Optional: Bates, 1986 (selections))
Week 3 - Metadata Basics: Properties of entities (attributes and values) (Tuesday Aug. 25) What significant properties distinguish each entity? What kinds of values best express these properties? Material: Video: Meta Skepticism (Slides) Joan Ferguson Interview Forum (Deadline 9/1/2020)
Readings: ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2012 (Dublin Core metadata element specification); CDP Metadata Working Group, 2006; Lee, et al, 2013
Week 4 - Metadata Basics: Relations between entities (models) (Tuesday Sept.1) How are entities and properties related? Material: Forum (Deadline 9/8/2020)
Readings: Johnston (2006); Urban (2014); IFLA (again); Jett (2015)
Week 5 - Metadata Standards: Types of standards and the work of creating them (Tuesday Sep. 8) What is interoperability and how might it be achieved? Material: Video: Getting Meta With Classmates (Slides) Forum (Deadline 9/15/2020)
Readings: Zeng and Chan (2009); Elings and Weibel (2007); Millerand and Bowker (2009)
Week 6 - Metadata Standards Linked data: encoding, linking, and aggregating metadata statements (Tuesday Sep. 15) How does linked data provide a technical architecture for encoding, linking, and aggregating metadata? Material: Video: Wikipedia Schemes (SVG file) Forum (Deadline 9/29/2020)
Readings: Duval (2002); Miller (1998); Oomen and Baltussen (2012)
Week 7 - Metadata Standards Semantic diversity and change over time (Tuesday Sept. 22) How does our understanding of attributes and their values change over time and across communities of practice? Material: Video: eGranary Metadata (Slides) Forum (Deadline 9/29/2020)
Readings: Buckland (2012); Tennis (2012); Ribes (2017); Long, Thompson, Potvin, and Rivero, (2017)
Week 8 - Metadata Standards Implementation of standards in practice (Tuesday Sept. 29) How is a standard implemented in different situations, and what happens when data from different sources is aggregated? Material: Mid-semester one-on-one conversations Forum (Deadline 10/6/2020)
Readings: Waigley, Gelches, Park, (2010); Lee, Clarke, and Perti, (2015); Jackson and Barbrow (2015); Goodwin (1994)
Week 9 - Domain-specific Standards:Conceptual foundations and objectives of museum informatics (Tuesday Oct. 6 What are the goals of museum metadata? What are descriptive practices in museums? Video & Slides Material: Forum (Deadline 10/13/2020)
Readings: Marty, Rayward, and Twidale (2003); Bearman (2008); Orna and Pettit (1998)
Week 10 – Domain-specific Standards: Standards and systems for museum information (Tuesday Oct. 13) What are (some) content and structure standards for museum metadata? How do these standards work together, and what are their goals? Material: Video: Recording and Storing Metadata (Slides) Forum (Deadline 10/20/2020)
Readings: Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) (a content standard): Introduction, Part 2, Elements; Part 2, Chapter 1; Coburn et al, (2010)
Week 11 - Domain-Specific Standards: Models for museum resource description (Tuesday Oct. 20) What are some models for defining and relating entities and properties in museum metadata? Material: Video: Mining and Applying Concepts (Slides)
Object-centric models and event-centric models Readings: Gill, 2014 Doerr, 2004 Isaac, 2013
Week 12 - Domain-Specific Standards: Integrative infrastructures for cultural heritage data sharing (Tuesday Oct. 27) How does standardized metadata enable systems for aggregating cultural heritage data? How is this aggregated data used? Video: Cataloging MY Cultural Object Material: Europeana White Paper #2 (The Yellow Milkmaid ) Readings: Europeana strategy 2015- 2020 (and strategy update 2018); Agenjo, Hernandez, and Viedma, 2012
Week 13 - Domain-Specific Standards: Resource description in archeology (Tuesday Nov. 3) What are goals for description of archeological datasets? What are some existing standards for archeological data? Material: Video: Libarians Snuff Bunnies (Slides) Forum (Deadline 11/10/2020)
Readings: Rabinowitz, Esteva, and Trelogan (2013); Kintigh (2006); Atici, Whitcher Kansa, Lev-Tov, and Kansa (2012)
Week 14 - Domain-specific Standards: Integrative infrastructures for data sharing in archeology (Tuesday Nov. 10) What are the goals of systems for publishing and aggregating archeological data? What metadata practices are necessary to achieve those goals? Material: Video: Metada is Wonderful! (Slides) Forum (Deadline 11/17/2020)
Readings: Kansa, Kansa, and Arbuckle (2014)
Final Exam The final exam will be a take home assignment similar to the midterm, but to be accomplished alone. The exam will be released on Nov. 18th and due at 5pm, on November 22nd.
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Course AcknowledgementsThe design, materials, and implementation of this version of INLS 720 is the product of a collaborative effort of SILS instructors: Melanie Feinberg, Grace Shin, and myself. |
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