Metadata Refinement for Museum Professionals - 2026 MMA Conference Workshop

Metadata Refinement for Museum Professionals

Wednesday, October 21

1pm-4pm

This workshop takes participants through metadata refinement concepts delivered through a series of hands-on exercises using common office apps like Google Sheets and Excel. We will work with samples of actual collection data and work together to learn best practices for refining descriptive, technical, and administrative metadata to improve discoverability, consistency and scholarship of their collection. We will also cover ways to leverage AI while also protecting data from unintended uses.

Presenters: 

• Matthew Patulski, Poplar Media, LLC.

Registration 

Member and Conference Attendee registrants $50

Non-Member registrants $60

Registration is open through September 28. 

If the minimum number of registrants needed to run this workshop is not met by certain pre-determined deadlines, this workshop may be cancelled. Anyone registered for the workshop in the event of a cancellation will be notified and refunded.

Conference Registration is NOT required for this workshop