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Metadata Basics

Acknowledgements

Recognition

This guide was built collaboratively in 2017, with contributions by several UT Libraries staff:

  • Kelly Garrett, GRA in the Cataloging & Metadata Services department, provided initial overall guide design, content and style refinements, and primary editorial responsibility during guide creation.
  • Melanie Cofield, Jee Davis, and Alan Ringwood from the Cataloging & Metadata Services department developed content originally used in Metadata 101 training sessions for UT Libraries staff.

Recent collaborative updates by UT Libraries staff were made in 2024-2025, by:

  • Melanie Cofield, Head of Access Systems
  • Devon Murphy, Metadata Analyst
  • Karla Roig Blay, Digital Preservation Coordinator

Attribution

Some content and organizational strategies were borrowed early on from the following model guides on metadata:

Tags: data, metadata

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