I’ve noticed that a lot of what we are learning overlaps in many of my classes. Last fall all of my classes had at least one section that overlapped. This had happened to me in my freshman year of college at Duquesne University. I thought it was odd, but helpful in many ways. Still I hadn’t really expected it to happen during graduate school, but I’m not complaining it usually is really beneficial!
This semester the concept of metadata has been the overlapping idea in this course and in my Organizing Information class. We had one week devoted to learning about this concept and I will admit I was still a bit confused on what it was and why we used it. So when metadata was mentioned as part of the ePrints 3 assignment, I was not too happy.
Here I was with no clue as to what I was supposed to find out about this metadata, so I kept putting the assignment off. I guess I figured I would have some sort of epiphany and I would actually understand the subject matter. Of course this did not happen.
When I finally sat down to do the assignment, I found a new article and began working through the steps to complete the upload. I was happy to find out that ePrints 3 actually has marked areas for all of the metadata information. I could actually understand what was being asked of me to locate! This made me very, very happy! Some of the information was not present in any of the articles or books I decided to upload, so I left those boxes blank.
This exercise really helped me to better understand the concept of metadata. Without it, I still would probably be a little confused on this idea and would never have had firsthand experience using it.
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