Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval

David Haynes PhD MBCS FCLIP conducts research into Privacy and Metadata at the Department of Library and Information Science at City, University of London. He is also an Honorary Tutor at the Centre for Archives and Information Studies (CAIS) at the University of Dundee where he specialises in Metadata and Taxonomies. He has been involved in library and information consultancy and research for more than 35 years during which time he has worked on information retrieval, information policy and information governance issues, latterly specialising in privacy and data protection. He is Chair of the UK Chapter of ISKO, the International Society for Knowledge Organization.

PART I: METADATA CONCEPTS
1. Introduction



Overview
Why metadata?
Fundamental principles of metadata
Purposes of metadata
Why is metadata important?
Organisation of the book

2. Defining, describing and expressing metadata



Overview
Defining metadata
XML schemas
Databases of metadata
Examples of metadata in use
Conclusion

3. Data modelling



Overview
Metadata models
Unified Modelling Language (UML)
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Dublin Core
The Library Reference Model (LRM) and the development of RDA
ABC ontology and the semantic web
Indecs – Modelling book trade data
OAIS – Online exchange of data
Conclusion

4. Metadata Standards



Overview
The nature of metadata standards
About standards
Dublin Core – a general-purpose standard
Metadata standards in library and information work
Social media
Non-textual materials
Complex objects
Conclusion

PART II: PURPOSES OF METADATA
5. Resource identification and description (Purpose 1)



Overview
How do you identify a resource?
Identifiers
RFIDs and identification
Describing resources
Descriptive metadata
Conclusion

6. Retrieving information (Purpose 2)



Overview
The role of metadata in information retrieval
Information theory
Types of information retrieval
Evaluating retrieval performance
Retrieval on the internet
Subject indexing and retrieval
Metadata and computational models of retrieval
Conclusion

7. Managing information resources (Purpose 3)



Overview
Information lifecycles
Create or ingest
Preserve and store
Distribute and use
Review and dispose
Transform
Conclusion

8. Managing intellectual property rights (Purpose 4)



Overview
Rights management
Provenance
Conclusion

9. Supporting e-commerce and e-government (Purpose 5)



Overview
Electronic transactions
E-commerce
Online behavioural advertising
Indecs and ONIX
Publishing and the book trade
E-government
Conclusion

10. Information governance (Purpose 6)



Overview
Governance and risk
Information governance
Compliance (freedom of information and data protection)
E-discovery (legal admissibility)
Information risk, information security and disaster recovery
Sectoral compliance
Conclusion

PART III: MANAGING METADATA
11. Managing metadata



Overview
Metadata is an information resource
Workflow and metadata lifecycle
Project approach
Application profiles
Interoperability of metadata
Quality considerations
Metadata security
Conclusion

12. Taxonomies and encoding schemes



Overview
Role of taxonomies in metadata
Encoding and maintenance of controlled vocabularies
Thesauri and taxonomies
Content rules – authority files
Ontologies
Social tagging and folksonomies
Conclusion

13. Very large data collections



Overview
The move towards big data
What is big data?
The role of linked data in open data repositories
Data in an organisational context
Social media, web transactions and online behavioural advertising
Research data collections
Conclusion

14. Politics and ethics of metadata



Overview
Ethics
Power
Money
Re-examining the purposes of metadata
Managing metadata itself
Conclusion