Teaching an information organization course with Nordic DC metadata creator

Abstract

Exploration and use of Dublin Core metadata tools in a graduate library course, Organization of Information, suggests applications of these tools in similar courses as an introduction to cataloging. Students used the Nordic DC metadata creator to catalog and classify both Internet and traditional information objects. Because links available from the Nordic DC metadata creator and Dublin Core home pages make cataloging resource materials easily available, students had less difficulty integrating their knowledge and those resources to create cataloging records than their counterparts in prior courses did. Practice with the Dublin Core tools, observation of their use by student catalogers, and the potential for gaining experience with more sophisticated tools available in the Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC) project encouraged Bowling Green State University to participate in CORC.

Citation

Glaviano, C. (2000), "Teaching an information organization course with Nordic DC metadata creator", OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 33-40. https://doi.org/10.1108/10650750010371400