3.4 Metadata
Pretty much every electronic object carries metadata, but a lot of people don't know about it.
Developing this competency involves …
- Learning to find, read, and critically analyze information about data, files, and digital objects that is stored in metadata, including data related to copyright and privacy issues.
- Learning how to use metadata and tagging to organize, store and locate data or retrieve collections of digital objects.
- Developing a working knowledge of metadata or tagging schemas used with bibliographic records; images, files and other digital objects; datasets or texts.
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