Week 3 - Description

  • 2025-01-28
  • 9:30-10:45
  • Shannon 317

Guiding Questions

  • How do we describe data?
  • What are metadata standards?

Pre-work

Plan

  • Introduction: Formats and Standards
  • Activity: Organizing and Describing
  • Slides linked here

Homework

  • Select a cultural interest (film, books, music) of yours and manually create a dataset from it. You should have at least 10 objects in your dataset with five metadata categories each. Be detailed! Bonus points for using an established metadata standard. Submit Friday by 9:00 AM.