Format: Self-paced Course
Developed
by: WebJunction, in collaboration with Washington State University’s Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation
Length: 1 hour
Overview
In this course we’ll explore how to organize
and describe your digital collections to aid digital preservation and discovery,
plus enhance the meaning and value of your collections. This will include file
management best practices and adding culturally inclusive metadata and
description.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe best practices for organizing and naming your digital collection files.
- Write appropriate descriptive and administrative metadata for your collections.
- Select metadata standards, schemas, and guidelines that fit your collections and systems.
- Create a metadata plan for your institution.
