Metadata in Digital Content: A Look at Shareable Metadata in Aggregation Services

In the life cycle of digital content, shareable metadata is an important part of the process of both digitized and born-digital content to enable users to find the digital objects. Furthermore, metadata can be shared beyond the original environment to make the digital objects available to a larger audience, such as through aggregation services like the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). In this Funding to Preservation: A Digital Content Life Cycle Series webinar, Megan Pearson, Project Coordinator for the Illinois Digital Heritage Hub (IDHH), the Illinois Hub for the DPLA, will share her experience with aggregating metadata and working with metadata created by other institutions, including standardization practices and methods used by the IDHH, and offer some thoughts on how to create shareable metadata across environments. 

Part of the series: Funding to Preservation: A Digital Content Lifecycle Webinar Series

• CARLI and FLVC are pleased to host a 6-part Funding to Preservation: A Digital Content Life Cycle Webinar Series! Spend Tuesdays this summer learning about: grant opportunities to fund digitization, workflows for processing born-digital materials, digitization best practices, digital preservation basics, and the importance of metadata in digital content. 

This event is available via the Professional Development Alliance (PDA).