Metadata Outreach

Are you struggling to organize your research data or materials? Do you wish you knew more about describing your data or materials in a way that makes them more understandable and shareable with collaborators and systems? Do you need help understanding or developing a metadata schema for a grant or digital project? Do you wish you knew more about information organization or information architecture?

Are you simply wondering what metadata is? Are you unsure if it’s even something that you need to know more about?

You do. And we can help.

Metadata Outreach is a library service that leverages our proficiency in solving information-based problems to empower our community to recognize and tackle their information-based or metadata-based challenges. Metadata Outreach relies on the rich experience and expertise held by RCL’s Metadata Services staff, particularly in information organization, metadata schema, and controlled vocabularies, to support teaching, learning, and research activities at the University of Rochester.

Metadata Outreach is for everyone at the University of Rochester. By exploring your metadata needs and challenges, we can help University staff improve their business processes and better understand how their work relates to data governance efforts. We can help students manage, describe, and understand their research data and outputs. We can support faculty teaching and research across all disciplines.

Learn more about metadata, from the basics to its application

Learn more about the kinds of services we can provide and projects that we’ve worked on