Course Information
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| Credits | 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs |
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| Registration dates | We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment. |
Subjects & Names in Metadata
$250.00
Dates: August 3 - August 30Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs
This course focuses on the analysis of the intellectual content of information resources/objects and the representation of content in information retrieval systems, specifically library systems. The analysis of intellectual content has long been a traditional mechanization for retrieval of and access to information resources in libraries. Representing the content of information resources involves a number of critical ideas and distinctions that the cataloger must contend with if the process of resource subject representation is to be done with any efficiency and wisdom. This course will explore the core of that process. This involves exploring the idea of content, including the idea of a subject, and the corresponding possibilities of how to indicate or express that content. We can call the overall process subject analysis but simply saying that it centers on determining the “subject” (or “subjects”) of a resource has to be expanded. As a widely accepted activity, it has gained a variety of names—for example, subject indexing, document analysis, and subject heading determination.
This course will also address how to do the activity of subject analysis by expanding on how to perform the critical first steps of subject analysis—the cataloger has to first extract, or determine, the actual basis of these representations from the depths of the resource itself before turning to any kind of subject authority list or classification code.
Course Objectives and Goals
By the end of the course students will:
- Define subject analysis of information resources; including discussion of fundamental concepts surrounding subject content usage, issues of specificity, depth of indexing (exhaustivity, summarization, form, genre, audience, etc.);
- Discuss goals of subject analysis; difficulties of subject analysis
- Discuss persons, corporate bodies, objects, events, as subject access points and the relationships between subject access points in a catalog system
- Discuss users tasks for subject access as outlined in Library Reference Model (LRM)
This is an asynchronous course with built-in course materials and series of weekly assignments. Some course materials may be recorded.
This course can be taken as one of eight courses needed to earn our Certificate in Cataloging and Technical Services, but can be taken as a stand-alone course as well.
Course Description
This course focuses on the analysis of the intellectual content of information resources/objects and the representation of content in information retrieval systems, specifically library systems. The analysis of intellectual content has long been a traditional mechanization for retrieval of and access to information resources in libraries. Representing the content of information resources involves a number of critical ideas and distinctions that the cataloger must contend with if the process of resource subject representation is to be done with any efficiency and wisdom. This course will explore the core of that process. This involves exploring the idea of content, including the idea of a subject, and the corresponding possibilities of how to indicate or express that content. We can call the overall process subject analysis but simply saying that it centers on determining the “subject” (or “subjects”) of a resource has to be expanded. As a widely accepted activity, it has gained a variety of names—for example, subject indexing, document analysis, and subject heading determination.
This course will also address how to do the activity of subject analysis by expanding on how to perform the critical first steps of subject analysis—the cataloger has to first extract, or determine, the actual basis of these representations from the depths of the resource itself before turning to any kind of subject authority list or classification code.
Course Objectives and Goals
By the end of the course students will:
- Define subject analysis of information resources; including discussion of fundamental concepts surrounding subject content usage, issues of specificity, depth of indexing (exhaustivity, summarization, form, genre, audience, etc.);
- Discuss goals of subject analysis; difficulties of subject analysis
- Discuss persons, corporate bodies, objects, events, as subject access points and the relationships between subject access points in a catalog system
- Discuss users tasks for subject access as outlined in Library Reference Model (LRM)
This is an asynchronous course with built-in course materials and series of weekly assignments. Some course materials may be recorded.
This course can be taken as one of eight courses needed to earn our Certificate in Cataloging and Technical Services, but can be taken as a stand-alone course as well.
Robin Fay
Robin Fay is an experienced Cataloging and Metadata Librarian, trainer, and author working where metadata, cataloging, systems, and AI intersect. She has led cataloging, migration, and data quality projects across the GLAM landscape — federal agencies, multistate academic consortia including the Orbis Cascade Alliance and the University System of Georgia, and academic, community college, public library, and museum collections. Her practice spans MARC to BIBFRAME, system migrations, authority and entity management, controlled vocabularies, and linked data, including where AI tools help in metadata work and how to build human-AI collaborations for our work. She is the author of Semantic Web Technologies and Social Searching for Librarians and actively writes at linkedin and elsewhere. A frequent guest on WREK's Lost in the Stacks, she discusses metadata and semantic web topics through the lens of practical application. Connect with Robin via her linktr.ee/robinfay or at robinfay.net
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