Course overview
The aim of this course is to provide students with the theoretical foundations, knowledge, and skills in data creation, curation, analysis and retrieval using metadata schemas and repositories.
Course learning outcomes
- Explain the purpose and value of different types of data.
- Apply different types of metadata content standards, and controlled vocabularies.
- Compare the different methods of data curation, management, analysis and retrieval.
- Describe content using a metadata schema, content standard, and controlled vocabulary of their choice.
- Design a metadata project based on real-world scenarios that are provided in the course materials.
- Evaluate the ethics and politics of data.
- Evaluate the importance of data to Information Services.
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