INLS 720: Metadata
From Pomerantz
(New page: == Course description == Examines metadata in the digital environment. Emphasizes the development and implementation of metadata schemas in distinct information communities and the standa...) |
|||
| Line 39: | Line 39: | ||
== Schedule == | == Schedule == | ||
| + | |||
| + | INLS 720 will overlap with my [https://www.coursera.org/course/metadata MOOC on Metadata], which will be offered through Coursera. The MOOC will launch in September 2013 (exact date TBA). INLS 720 will begin at the start of UNC's Fall semester (20 August 2013). Students in INLS 720 will participate in the Metadata MOOC during its 8-week span. Pomerantz will conduct synchronous online class sessions and office hours with INLS 720 students throughout the semester -- while the MOOC is ongoing and after it concludes. INLS 720 students will have additional projects and deliverables, beyond those expected of MOOC students, during and after the conclusion of the MOOC. | ||
Revision as of 17:54, 28 February 2013
Contents |
Course description
Examines metadata in the digital environment. Emphasizes the development and implementation of metadata schemas in distinct information communities and the standards and technological applications used to create machine understandable metadata.
Course objectives
In this course, students will learn:
- What it means to organize information, and what role metadata plays
- The basic vocabulary of metadata, including a lot of acronyms
- Use cases for metadata, and what kinds of different metadata schemas exist
- About the enabling technologies for metadata (e.g., XML and RDF), and about the technologies that build on metadata concepts (e.g., Schema.org and RSS)
Instructor
| Jeffrey Pomerantz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB 3360, 100 Manning Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 | v: 919-962-8064
f: 919-962-8071 pomerantz at unc dot edu [Skype] |
| Office: 112 Manning Hall
Office hours: Mon & Wed, 12:30 - 1:30 pm Make an appointment on my Google Calendar. Please indicate your name and what you want to meet to discuss. | |
| Curriculum vitae | |
Course management
Textbook & reading
Assignments
Grading rubric & other policies
See my course grading rubric.
See my course policies.
See the web.unc.edu Online Class Statement.
Assignments constitute the following percentage of your final grade:
- TBA
Schedule
INLS 720 will overlap with my MOOC on Metadata, which will be offered through Coursera. The MOOC will launch in September 2013 (exact date TBA). INLS 720 will begin at the start of UNC's Fall semester (20 August 2013). Students in INLS 720 will participate in the Metadata MOOC during its 8-week span. Pomerantz will conduct synchronous online class sessions and office hours with INLS 720 students throughout the semester -- while the MOOC is ongoing and after it concludes. INLS 720 students will have additional projects and deliverables, beyond those expected of MOOC students, during and after the conclusion of the MOOC.

