Sept-Oct 2022
Subject Area: Library cataloguing and metadata standards
Format: Online Courses
Length: 7 Hours
Audience: Library Students, New Graduates, Information Professionals
Organisers: ALIA and TAFE NSW
As a supplement to INF209 Metadata for Resource Discovery, I completed an online ALIA course ‘Libraries and Metadata’ that was facilitated through TAFE NSW. It looked at the current standards and practices, and covered the recent developments and projects for:
- Resource description and access (RDA)
- Machine-readable cataloguing (MARC)
- Resource Description Framework (RDF)
- Dublin Core (DC)
- Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME)
- Linked data
- VIAF (Virtual International Authority File).
The course provided background information, definitions, and in-depth readings for the above topics, and had participants engage with each other and teaching staff through forum posts, online quizzes, small research projects, and other activities.
As my degree signalled a change in career, I had little prior knowledge of metadata schemas and standards, so the decision to undertake and complete this course was to help expand my knowledge and give more context in the how, why, where, and when metadata was to be used and its importance in the searchability and findability of resources. It offered the opportunity to connect with other participants whether they were students or library professionals and learn how they utilised metadata and metadata standards in their degrees or workplaces. On completion of the course, I felt I had a greater knowledge of the standards and practices of the four most commonly utilised metadata schemas, and was able to better contextualise how they would be implemented in an information organisation. I found some of the provided readings very practical and used some of these, as well as some of the advice that was posted on the forums by other participants, when I completed both the core cataloguing course and the elective cataloguing course during my degree.
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