2024-11-17 Module 5 Metadata Schema

Metadata: data about data - attribute/element that defines or describes a particular image, document, presentation or spreadsheet would be meta data.

Defines fields and their type, required or not, default value of the field, whether or not it can be edited, etc. Can create as many metadata schemas as you find appropriate

Sources of metadata

Contextual

Geography, location, usage

Documents

Properties, inline text

Data repositories

Forms, lists

Applications

Workflows, external systems

Business data

User profile, properties, LOB application

Example

Procedure

Title

Owner

Audience

Last updated

Next review date

Publish date

Description

Keyword

Type of procedure

How much do we have to ask users to populate? What can we make default?

Anything we identify we have to define - what is audience, what is owner?

Exercise

Develop a metadata schema for WCG KM System

Content consumption

Think of the content audit

Availability - state of readiness of content

Metrics - measurements for planning and success measures.

Content generation

Authoring

General - identify gaps in content

Extraction - mechanisms to sources to support search, info discovery, analytics

Content organization

Modeling, classifying semantics, structure (taxonomy), UI/UX

Content access

Search, discovery, navigation, system interfaces, analytics

Content governance

Stewardship, IA management/maintenance, policy/procedure, enforcement

Content quality of service

Security, availability, reliability, scalability, usefulness