Are you flooded with files? Drowning in data? Swimming in spreadsheets? Just add metadata! Doing research can generate a lot of data quickly, so quickly that it can easily get out of hand. Well-planned metadata can help you use, organize, search, share, and manage your data effectively! In this session, we'll review some standards and best practices for metadata, and then get some hands-on practice creating and using metadata for different types of data.

The presentation slides are available by clicking the Download button on the right.

Supporting materials for a workshop activity are listed as additional files below and are available for download. The materials include:

1. Instructions about the activity

2. Two datasets in form of zip files, each of which holds:

• A description of the dataset
• Images of library pets in different file formats
• A sample spreadsheet for entering metadata

3. Two spreadsheets of compiled data (for sets A and B) in a zip file, for use in part 2 of the activity

The datasets are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the dataset creator and source are credited, that changes (if any) are clearly indicated, and that users distribute their datasets under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The video and audio files of this workshop are listed as additional files below and are available for download.