Well here we are, halfway through the Metadata MOOC!
As I mentioned in the videos, Units 4, 5, and 6 are more or less a sequence. We are building on the logic of the Dublin Core data model from Unit 2, and the technical underpinning of XML and RDF from Unit 3.
Unit 4 was, as they say, a mile wide and an inch deep: a survey across a range of schemas and thesauri, created for a range of use cases. Unit 5 will explore one approach to metadata in more detail: microdata.
Microdata is metadata specifically for the web. But what you have to keep in mind is this: while the web is of course used by people, the web is also used by algorithms. Microdata is metadata for the web... but it's not really meant for people, it's designed for use by algorithms. What algorithms? Search tools, of course, but really, you name it. Any algorithm that can make use of structured data.
All of which will lead us to Linked Data in Unit 6, which applies the idea of structured data on the web to literally anything and everything.
Stay tuned as we explore metadata that's not for human consumption! As we explore the side of the web that's dominated by agents! (Not Agent Smith, though it would kind of be more fun if that was what I meant.)
See you online!
As I mentioned in the videos, Units 4, 5, and 6 are more or less a sequence. We are building on the logic of the Dublin Core data model from Unit 2, and the technical underpinning of XML and RDF from Unit 3.
Unit 4 was, as they say, a mile wide and an inch deep: a survey across a range of schemas and thesauri, created for a range of use cases. Unit 5 will explore one approach to metadata in more detail: microdata.
Microdata is metadata specifically for the web. But what you have to keep in mind is this: while the web is of course used by people, the web is also used by algorithms. Microdata is metadata for the web... but it's not really meant for people, it's designed for use by algorithms. What algorithms? Search tools, of course, but really, you name it. Any algorithm that can make use of structured data.
All of which will lead us to Linked Data in Unit 6, which applies the idea of structured data on the web to literally anything and everything.
Stay tuned as we explore metadata that's not for human consumption! As we explore the side of the web that's dominated by agents! (Not Agent Smith, though it would kind of be more fun if that was what I meant.)
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