Presentation slides from the ALCTS Metadata Interest Group Meeting at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco are available below as attachments (pdf and pptx formats available)
Using Metadata Skills for a Course Inventory
Lee Richardson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library
Metadata and information organization activities in libraries often focus on digital projects, institutional repositories and library catalogs. This presentation will report on a project that applies skills developed from these traditional activities to something a little different. I will talk about a project to help the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Affairs schools create a system to gather and organize information about interprofessional education courses and learning activities. Previous experiences in evaluating taxonomies, applying controlled vocabularies, creating data dictionaries, and understanding when to select from valid data verses using free text all informed better discernment of possible problems and solutions. While this project is still in early stages of development, I will share what’s been done so far, mistakes made, lessons learned and what comes next.