Brown Bag Lecture

Classifying Educational Resources

Presented by Susan Zeyher

 Tuesday, October 10, 2000
12:00-1:00 PM 
Room 259, Educational Sciences Building

Zeyher will discuss a structure designed by the Education Metadata Project to make it easier for users to access Web-based educational resources. A controlled vocabulary of metadata (information about data) is attached to the resources to make searching more precise than with a Web browser. A controlled vocabulary is a list of terms that categorize the resources by some aspect of their content. Searchers use the controlled vocabulary terms to search for resources with a particular subject content. The intended users of the metadata structure are students, teachers or parents, school principals, teacher educators, school administrators, and policymakers. The scope of the project is to create a complete system of education information for practice and decision-making at all levels of the education system.

Susan Zeyher has a master's degree in Library and Information Studies and has served as a team member of the NISE Information Resource Coordination Team. Zeyher’s research addresses issues of information sharing and metadata architectures for electronic school information resources. As an Information Resource Coordination Fellow, she has identified and integrated existing metadata architectures and classification systems for both academic and administrative information for secondary schools.