an short introduction to metadata
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A talk at the Wellcome Institute's Digitisation Doctor event for organisations in the digitisation process. What is metadata? why do you need it? what does it look like? How do you create it? Putting it on the web Full talk notes are at http://www.cookinrelaxin.com/2013/06/a-short-introduction-to-metadata.htmlTRANSCRIPT
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A short introduction to metadataTristan Ferne BBC R&D
@tristanfhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/rd
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Summary
What metadata is
What it is for
What it looks like
How to create it
Putting it on the web
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What is metadata?
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Information about something, usually structured
In this case, information about the thing you’re digitising
For humans or computers
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A book
Title
Author
Date of publication
ISBN identifier
Dewey Decimal Number (on a library)
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And more...
Edition
Publisher
Publisher’s description
Reviews
Cover picture
Price
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What is metadata for?
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To find things
To identify things
To list things
To link things to other things
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What does metadata look like?
Creator
Location
Tags
Camera info
Date
Views
Licensing
Title and description
Unique ID
When and where
Unique ID
Series and episode
Duration
What it’s about
Who made it and who was in it
The brand title
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Standards are good
Someone’s already defined it
Software probably supports it
It’s interoperable
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Dublin CoreTitle
Creator
Subject
Description
Publisher
Contributor
Date
Type
Format
Identifier
Source
Language
Relation
Coverage
Rights
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Where is the metadata?
In the digital file
In a database, linked to the digital file
And online?
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How to create metadata
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Three ways
Experts, archivists, librarians, you!
Volunteers
Computers
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Crowdsourcing
Asking volunteers to help solve problems
Online tools
Designed to encourage contributions
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ComputersImages to text (OCR)
Keyword and topic extraction from text
Machine translation
Speech-to-text from audio
Speaker identification and diarisation
Face detection in images or video
Object and scene recognition
Harder
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Putting it on the web
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the web
=
the internet + links + documents/data
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Programmes Music
Topics
News
Events
Archive Food
Gardening
Michael Smethurst
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Linked data
Machine-readable
Unique identifiers
Unambiguous
Defined vocabularies
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Links mentioned
http://www.flickr.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk
http://dublincore.org/
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
http://tagger.thepcf.org.uk/
http://worldservice.prototyping.bbc.co.uk
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