3.6 Session summary

In this session you learned about the importance of metadata, as well as a range of tools to help you think critically about how the process of making metadata fundamentally shapes our relationship to data, especially through the medium of search engines.

You should now complete a short quiz to check what you’ve learned in this session. Open the quiz in a new tab or window and come back here when you’ve finished.

Week 1, Session 3 quiz [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]

The next session will examine the specific challenges of exploring web archives and social media.