I thought this might be of interest:
Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information | Coursera -
https://www.coursera.org/course/metadata
Course Syllabus
Unit 1: Organizing Information
Unit 2: Dublin Core
Unit 3: How to Build a Metadata Schema
Unit 4: Alphabet Soup: Metadata Schemas That You (Will) Know and Love
Unit 5: Metadata for the Web
Unit 6: Metadata for Networks
Unit 7: How to Create Metadata
Unit 8: How to Evaluate Metadata
Phil
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Philip Durbin
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http://thedata.org
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-durbin