Metadata Services
MIT Libraries

Services

Consulting:

• User needs/metadata functionality assessment
• Metadata schema evaluation and recommendation (IEEE LOM, DC, VRA, EAD, FDGC, etc.)
• Interoperability assessment
• Re-use, repurposing, and development recommendation
• Value space definition
• Vocabulary recommendation and development
• Workflow planning

Metadata Application

• Metadata generation and editing in a variety of environments
• Instantiation of records and objects in repositories
• Authority control
• Indexing and subject access

Training

• Introduction to metadata concepts
• Metadata application instruction
• Metadata trainer preparation

Document Deliverables:

• Data and Conceptual Models
• User interaction definitions
• XML Bindings
• Best Practice Recommendations
• Metadata Authoring Manuals