The importance of metadata for describing educational resources
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 5:58 am
David Martín-Moncunill , Tutor Professor in the Educational Technology and Innovation Area of Bureau Veritas Training. Graduate in Information Systems and Technical Engineer in Management Computing.
The word metadata refers to “ data about data itself .” Thus, this is highly structured data that describes the information, content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of the data.
The word may seem a bit complex and foreign to us, but it is actually something we live with and use every day even if we do not recognize it under that term. For example, since their inception, libraries have had metadata cards commonly known as bibliographic cards, which contain information about the book; or, in other words, data about the book's data: who wrote it, in what year it was written, what its subject is, what shelf it is located on, who has previously requested it, etc.
With the advent of the digital age, traditional cardboard bitcoin data metadata records became digital records, also using standards that define what metadata is collected and how it should be collected.
In the educational field, there are many metadata that may be of interest to the professionals involved: the subject matter covered, the material used (a collection of exercises, a theoretical text) and its format (a video, an audio, an image), the course to which it is related or the intellectual property of the educational resources.
As can be seen in the following image from the Organic.Edunet portal, including metadata available to the user in an educational resource makes it easier to locate what is of interest in the search engine, as well as its usability and reuse.
The word metadata refers to “ data about data itself .” Thus, this is highly structured data that describes the information, content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of the data.
The word may seem a bit complex and foreign to us, but it is actually something we live with and use every day even if we do not recognize it under that term. For example, since their inception, libraries have had metadata cards commonly known as bibliographic cards, which contain information about the book; or, in other words, data about the book's data: who wrote it, in what year it was written, what its subject is, what shelf it is located on, who has previously requested it, etc.
With the advent of the digital age, traditional cardboard bitcoin data metadata records became digital records, also using standards that define what metadata is collected and how it should be collected.
In the educational field, there are many metadata that may be of interest to the professionals involved: the subject matter covered, the material used (a collection of exercises, a theoretical text) and its format (a video, an audio, an image), the course to which it is related or the intellectual property of the educational resources.
As can be seen in the following image from the Organic.Edunet portal, including metadata available to the user in an educational resource makes it easier to locate what is of interest in the search engine, as well as its usability and reuse.