Metadata the Musical!: The Tale of the Ant and the Grasshopper (A performance for the ages)

Music and lyrics help us to teach and learn. What better way to highlight the significance of metadata than to transform songs from classics to pop to Broadway musicals into witty highlights on the value of metadata, PIDs, and standards? Borrowing a rough plot from the fable of the ant and the grasshopper, our creative cast will not only entertain you but will raise awareness of key issues that metadata can or should solve, like author name disambiguation, consistent taxonomies for language and persistent identifiers. Our determined ant researcher will restore order to the chaos of research output through her re-discovery of ancient "hoo-man" information science. This mini-musical, brought to you by a cast including researchers, vendors, publishers, and librarians, will be followed by an expert roundtable that will connect our drama back to metadata challenges that, when solved, will make the world a better place for humanity (and insects)!. A recording of this session is not available.