Certificate in Systems

This certificate program is crafted to cultivate essential skills in systems applicable to various settings, including libraries, museums, archives, and web environments. Offering a selection of electives, students can tailor the program to align with their unique interests and needs. The program is particularly beneficial for systems librarians, IT professionals, metadata specialists, digital asset managers, digital librarians, technical services personnel, and others.

Upon completion of the certificate program, students will be prepared to contribute to systems work such as managing data management projects, including starting and maintaining ingest/harvest archival projects, data mappings and data imports, editing, remediating, and enriching data using tools presented in this program, preparing data for system migrations, and more.

A total of 10 classes are required to complete the certificate. There are six required courses, and four electives.

Required:
Introduction to Metadata
Introduction to Linked Data
Using OpenRefine for Library Metadata
Using MARCEdit
Systems Migrations
Python for Librarians

Electives:
Introduction to Project Management
Microsoft Access for Librarians
BIBFRAME
Excel for Librarians
Introduction to Regular Expressions
Introduction to RDF
RDF, RDFa and Structured Data Vocabularies
Introduction to XML
Transforming and Querying XML with XSLT and XQuery
XSLT Fundamentals
Introduction to JSON and Structured Data
JSON-LD Fundamentals
The SPARQL Fundamentals: The Semantic Web in Action
Advanced Excel
Advanced Python for Librarians