Metadata Internship
The internship in metadata for digital libraries will provide students with hands-on experience using one or more metadata schemas in a production digital library environment. Students will be exposed to descriptive, technical, administrative, preservation, and/or structural metadata schemas; use and importance of both data content and data structure standards; mapping of metadata between formats; the process for choosing a metadata schema for a digital library project; and workflows for creating metadata.
Duties:
- Create descriptive, technical, administrative, preservation, and/or structural metadata for digital library objects
- Assist in planning metadata strategies for digital library projects
- Write crosswalks to map metadata between formats
- Develop and document work flows for creating metadata for digital library projects
Qualifications:
- Familiarity with metadata schema in common use in digital libraries, including Dublin Core, VRA Core, MODS, MARC, MARCXML, EAD, TEI, and METS
- Working knowledge of XML technologies such as XSLT and XPath
SLIS Prerequisites:
- S503 Representation and Organization
- S504 Cataloging
- S603 XML Workshop (or equivalent skills)
Contact
If interested, please send résumé and list of courses taken to Dot Porter.
