Introduction to Image Metadata

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Thursday 22 March 2012

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Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30

Aim

This course is designed specifically to help you consider how to effectively incorporate metadata into the fabric of your image collection, through explanation, discussion and practical activities.

Audience

Anyone new to describing and cataloguing images. Some previous knowledge of metadata will be useful but not essential.

Content

• Importance of metadata for image collections
• Choosing appropriate standards for your collection
• Metadata for different communities (e.g. museums, libraries, archives)
• Metadata for different purposes (e.g. retrieval, administration, preservation)
• Different types of metadata (e.g. categories, controlled vocabularies, subject classifications)
• Introduction to storing image metadata (e.g. databases, image tagging, XML)
• Introduction to some alternative approaches (e.g. content-based retrieval, user-created metadata)
• Critical review of real world examples

Dates and locations

• Thursday 22 March 2012
  Full-day course: 10.00 - 16.30
  ILRT, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
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