The document provides an overview of metadata and how it can be used. It discusses different types of metadata including structural, administrative, and descriptive metadata. It also covers how to create metadata by determining content types and attributes, and identifying functionality. Standards like Dublin Core, RDF/RDFa and Schema.org are examined as sources for metadata fields. The workshop teaches best practices for applying metadata to improve search, browsing and other functions.
9. TYPES OF METADATA 9
• Structural Metadata
• Models the content types and attributes
• Administrative Metadata
• Indicates how, when and by whom the content was created
• Defines how it can and will be used, its status, who can access it
• Descriptive Metadata
• Describes the subject matter of the content