Metadata Central: Digital Scholarship and Outreach

Willike Wendrich
Center for Digital Humanities
UC Los Angeles

Metadata is central in humanities scholarship. Depending on the research question or the form and purpose of presentation, the character and type of metadata needs to be adapted. This initiative provided training for graduate students and faculty mentors in the complex world of metadata. By focusing on projects in development, the Metadata Central workshop series trained participants in thinking through and identifying relevant metadata to enable digitally aided research and presentation of the research results to diverse audiences. The project also received supplemental graduate student funding, which allowed the graduate student Metadata Central Coordinator associated with the project to gain invaluable experience in metadata for humanities projects, project management, scholarly resource development, and community building.