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About Metadata
Metadata is information about a learning resource that you add to the resource to help other users locate it and understand its purpose. Administrators can create views, templates, and taxon schemas for your organization to enable users to enter repetitive metadata information quickly and consistently. You can add and edit…
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Using metadata views
Metadata views A view is a collection of fields. A field corresponds to one piece of data that you enter as part of a metadata object. For example, title, description, author, date created, and rights are all possible fields. Different views enable users to see and modify different fields when looking at metadata.…
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Using metadata languages
Set initial metadata language The initial language serves two purposes: All the metadata you enter through the basic interface is associated with the initial language and the initial language is selected by default for values entered through the advanced interface. From the Admin Tools menu, click Metadata Administration.…
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Using metadata templates
Metadata template types Brightspace comes with 4 basic metadata template types: * Default Template * Dublin Template * GEM Template * IEEE Template Create a metadata template A template is a collection of predefined values that users can use to quickly add standard metadata to a resource. Templates enable you to quickly…
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Using metadata taxon schemas
What is a taxon schema? A taxon is a collection of things grouped together according to their basic similarities. For example, an educational taxonomy may be defined as University > Faculty > Department > Specialties and so on. Schemas define the structure, content, and semantics of documents, and in this case, XML…