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Metadata for social justice

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm

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This workshop is offered to both Carleton University and University of Ottawa participants

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Dates (this is a multi-day series of workshops):

This suite of four integrated metadata workshops introduces core topics for those interested in creating quality metadata for digital projects, including digital humanities projects.

Metadata, “data about data”, is one strategy for ensuring the proper storage, discovery, retrieval, and sharing of data across time and space. Being able to find and access things is simpler if we are organized. In addition, we need to be ethical and think about the impact of metadata on the people, places, and objects being described: what are the social, economic, and political consequences of the words chosen to describe data? Does metadata play a role in the way we see the world and each other?

This series of workshops introduces researchers to thinking critically about the basics of metadata creation and use. The suite of five workshops covers these topics:

Learning outcomes

At the end of these workshops, participants will be able to:

(1) Define and think critically about the creation and use of metadata.

(2) Identify one metadata schema and apply these standards to describing digital objects.

(3) Create descriptors for a set of digital and physical objects, persons, events, etc. using Dublin Core.

(4) Critically assess the metadata schemas for two digital repository platforms: Omeka and Mukurtu.

(5) Engage in conversations about Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of naming.

Registration

Carleton University students: please register via the form below.

University of Ottawa students: please email Martha Attridge Bufton at marthaattridgebufton@cunet.carleton.ca to confirm registration. Please include your student number when you email Martha.

REGISTRATION FORM (FOR CARLETON STUDENTS ONLY)

Metadata for Social Justice (S2026)

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