Metadata readings and lecture

I found this past week's lecture very interesting because I'm also currently taking LIS 2407, which is (as the instructor noted) the brand new Metadata class that's now being offered. In that class, we've already learned about Dublin Core, MARC and MODS, so the lecture and the associated readings were a bit of a refresher for me. Part of me wishes that I would've taken this course beforehand just to get a better handle on Metadata and on XML, which we'll be learning about both in this course and in Metadata next week, but the overlap is helpful as concepts are reiterated and reinforced.