- The Course Syllabus, Calendar, and Announcement List for this course. Conduct of the course, including grading, will proceed the rest of the semester assuming you have carefully read, understand, and agree to adhere to all the requirements in all of these documents. updated links: 8/27
- Chapters 1 and 3 of Taylor and Joudrey's The Organization of Information, 3rd. Ed. (2009).
- Chapters 2 and 6 of Taylor and Joudrey's The Organization of Information, 3rd. Ed. (2009).
- Chapter 4 of Taylor and Joudrey's The Organization of Information, 3rd. Ed. (2009).
- Gilliland-Swetland, A. J. (2008). Setting the stage. In Baca, M. (Ed.), Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information. Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute.
- Smiraglia, R. P. (2005). Introducing metadata. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 40(3/4), 1-15.
- Chapter 5 of Taylor and Joudrey's The Organization of Information, 3rd. Ed. (2009).
- Chapter 7 of Taylor and Joudrey's The Organization of Information, 3rd. Ed. (2009).
- Spiteri, L. (2011). Using social discovery systems to leverage user-generated metadata. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 37(4), p. 27-9.
- Furrie, Betty. Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/ (Links to an external site.)
- Park, J., & Tosaka, Y. (2010). Metadata creation practices in digital repositories and collections: Schemata, selection criteria, and interoperability. Information Technology and Libraries, 29(3), 104-16.
- Byrne, G., & Goddard, L. (2010). The strongest link: Libraries and linked data. D-Lib Magazine, 16(11)
- Dublin Core:http://www.dublincore.org (Links to an external site.) . Examine closely the DCMI Metadata Terms, the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, and the DCMI Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). You may also wish to look at the section called Using Dublin Core because it's very readable, but you should know that Guidelines for Dublin Core Application Profiles is more current. When you do your R&D assignment, it will be marked with the assumption that you have read these parts, at minimum, but read as much as you can!
- Huwe, T. (2010). The new ascendancy of metadata and taxonomy skills. Computers in Libraries, 30(9), 29-31.
- Shreeves, S. L., Riley, J., & Milewicz, L. (2006). Moving towards shareable metadata. First Monday, 11(8).
- Miller, L. (2011). Resource Description and Access (RDA): An introduction for reference librarians. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 50(3), 216-22.
- Copeland, J. (2010). RDA and FRBR: A brave new world in cataloging. Arkansas Libraries, 67(2), 14-19.
- Chapter 8 of Taylor and Joudrey's The Organization of Information, 3rd. Ed. (2009).
- Chapter 9 of Taylor and Joudrey's The Organization of Information, 3rd. Ed. (2009).
- Chapter 10 of Taylor and Joudrey's The Organization of Information, 3rd. Ed. (2009).
- Chapter 11 of Taylor and Joudrey's The Organization of Information, 3rd. Ed. (2009).
- Harper, C. and Tillett, B. (2007). Library of Congress Controlled Vocabularies and Their Application to the Semantic Web. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 43(3-4).
- Cerbo, M. (2011). Is There a Future for Library Catalogers? Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 49(4).
- Han, M.J. and Hswe, P. (2010) The Evolving Role of the Metadata Librarian. Library Resources & Technical Services_ 54_(3), 129 - 141
- Jung-ran, P., & Tosaka, Y. (2010). Metadata Creation Practices in Digital Repositories and Collections: Schemata, Selection Criteria, and Interoperability. Information Technology & Libraries, 29(3), 104-116.