"Introduction to Metadata"
Without having taken Organizing an Retrieving Information class, I am learning about metadata for the first time. It seems like a simple concept that can be made complicated. I like thinking about metadata as Gilliland put it, ""the big picture" way of thinking about metadata". He also said, "metadata is the sum total of what one can say about any information object at any level of aggregation". This does help me to understand the terminology better. The typology of data standards gave me a better understanding because it explained the type and gave specific examples.
I agree that structure is important for organizing and representing data. It would be nice to have a universal standard to explain all collection and materials.
"An Overview of Dublin Core Data Model"
This is very difficult for me to understand because the terminology is new to me. I do agree that there is a need to standardize the way metadata is used. In Modularization / Extensibility, it says "there would never be one "true" declarative set of semantics to represent all resource descriptive requirements". Hopefully in the future there will be a way to define concepts that can be understood by many languages.
"Working with Endnote"
This software program can be very useful when writing papers. However I do think it would take some practice. I really like the way you can create your citations. I also think the search for literature tool could be very helpful. It sounds like once you learn the program, it will save time.
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