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An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues: Report of research undertaken by Michael Heaney at the University Library Services Directorate, Oxford University. The report refines conceptualisations of collections through an 'entity-relationship' model of collections and their catalogues in an attempt to inform current approaches to collection description. Available in PDF only.
Author: Heaney, Michael
Subjects: digital library management, library and information science research, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.32
Resource type: document
ANSI/NISO Z39.85 - 2001 Dublin Core Metadata Element Set: The Dublin Core Metadata standard was developed to promote better discovery standards for electronic resources and to make it easier to find relevant information on the World Wide Web. It is a 15-element set of descriptors in three groups which roughly indicate the class or scope of information stored in them. Firstly, content: title, subject, description, type, source, relation and coverage; secondly, intellectual property: creator, publisher, contributor and rights; and finally, instantiation: date, format, identifier and language.
Author: National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
Subjects: dublin core, internet resource classification, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.344
Resource type: document
BIBLINK: Collaborative project between the national libraries of Europe and publishers of electronic material to devise authoritative ways of describing electronic publications for catalogues and other listings. Includes a study of metadata and the transmission of data between publishers and libraries. Funded under the European Commission's Telematics Applications Project.
Author: British Library and partners
Subjects: electronic publishing, european publishers, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.344
Resource type: documents
Cataloguing and Metadata Resources: Collection of links to resources supporting cataloguing efforts, including aids and tools like a Cataloguing Terminology Glossary, standards such as MARC, and approaches to organising Internet resources using metadata like Dublin Core.
Author: Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid & Smith, Michael
Subjects: classification, dublin core, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.3
Resource type: index
Data Dictionary for Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images: Draft Standard for Trial Use: Prepared by the National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) and Association for Information and Image Management, this draft comprises a list of technical metadata elements for digital images. Available for use from June 2002 to December 2003 and presented as a PDF file.
Author: National Information Standards Organization and Association for Information and Image Management
Subjects: digitisation, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.344
Resource type: document
DC-dot Dublin Core Metadata Editor: This service will retrieve a web page and automatically generate Dublin Core HTML META tags suitable for embedding in the HEAD section of the page. The generated tags can be edited using the form provided. Optional, context sensitive, help is available while editing.
Author: Powell, Andy
Subjects: dublin core, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.344
Resource type: service
Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources: Links to documents archived by IFLA and external resources relating to metadata. Metadata is data about data. The term refers to any data used to aid the identification, description and location of networked electronic resources.
Author: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Subjects: digital library standards, internet resource classification, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.344
Resource type: documents
Dublin Core and Warwick Framework: A Review of the Literature, March 1995 - September 1997: Identifies and explores the dynamics of the literature associated with the Dublin Core Workshop Series. Concludes that a shift from a descriptive emphasis to a more empirical form of literature is about to take place and identifies future research questions in the areas of satisfying searcher needs, the impact of surrogate descriptions on search engine performance, and the effectiveness of surrogate descriptions in authenticating Internet resources.
Author: Thiele, Harold
Subjects: dublin core, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.344
Resource type: article
Dublin Core Metadata: The Dublin Core is a 15-element metadata set intended to facilitate discovery of electronic resources. Originally conceived for author-generated description of Web resources, it has also attracted the attention of formal resource description communities such as museums and libraries.
Author: OCLC
Subjects: digital library standards, dublin core, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.344
Resource type: documents
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Dublin Core Qualifiers: Describes the principles governing the Dublin Core element refinement and encoding scheme qualifiers. Also provides a summary and definitions approved by the DCMI Usage Committee.
Author: OCLC
Subjects: digital library standards, dublin core, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.344
Resource type: document
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Report published by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Delivers precisely stated parameters and a conceptual model concerning what bibliographic records aim to provide information about and what is required within those records to achieve user satisfaction.
Author: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Subjects: bibliographic control, library and information science research, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.3
Resource type: documents
IMS Global Learning Consortium: The IMS Global Learning Consortium develops and promotes the adoption of open technical specifications for interoperable learning technology.
Author: IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.
Subjects: digital library standards, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.344
Resource type: documents
Issues in Crosswalking Content Metadata Standards: In order to minimise the amount of time needed to create and maintain metadata, and to maximise its usefulness to the widest community of users, there is a need for the metadata created and maintained in one standard to be accessible via related content metadata standards. This article purports that harmonisation is the process of ensuring consistency in the specification of related content metadata standards, while a fully specified crosswalk provides the ability to create and maintain one set of metadata, and to map that metadata to any number of related content metadata standards. The article presents the key issues involved in crosswalk development and identifies those areas in which harmonisation can play a role.
Author: St. Pierre, Margaret & LaPlant, William P.
Subjects: metadata
DeweyClass: 025.3
Resource type: article
Metadata and Resource Description: Set of links to items about metadata, defined as 'machine understandable information for the Web'. Includes details of related news, events, publications, project groups, discussion forums and recommended reading.
Author: W3C
Subjects: metadata
DeweyClass: 025.344
Resource type: document index
Metadata Demystified: Provides an overview of the evolving metadata conventions in publishing and related initiatives to standardise how metadata is structured and disseminated. Covers topics such as XML, what metadata means to publishers and readers, and book and journal oriented metadata practices. Presented as a PDF document.
Author: Brand, Amy; Daley, Frank & Meyers, Barbara
Subjects: metadata
DeweyClass: 025.3
Resource type: document
Metadata Made Simpler: This introduction to metadata helps to explain what metadata is all about, why it is needed, and the advantages it offers. Dublin Core, GILS, metadata creation, and mapping are covered, and a list of Web resources and a glossary are included. Available in PDF only.
Author: Hodge, Gail
Subjects: dublin core, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.3
Resource type: document
Metadata Resources - Resource Description Framework: Provides a list of links to documents, articles and reports pertaining to the Resource Description Framework (RDF), with a special emphasis on those documents produced by the UK Office of Library and Information Networking (UKOLN).
Author: UKOLN
Subjects: metadata, rdf, xml
DeweyClass: 025.32
Resource type: documents, index
Metadata Resources: Dublin Core: Resources about the Dublin Metadata Core Element Set, a simple information resource description which also aims to provide a basis for semantic interoperability between other, probably more complicated, formats and is also intended to provide the basis for resource embedded description, initially with HTML documents.
Author: Powell, Andy
Subjects: digital library standards, dublin core, internet resource classification, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.344
Resource type: index
MetaMap: Information on metadata standards, sets, and initiatives (MSSIs) presented in the form of a subway map. Provides a definition of each 'station', shows relationships between them, and offers links to official web pages. The required SVG Viewer plug-in is freely available for download.
Author: Turner, James
Subjects: metadata
DeweyClass: 025.3
Resource type: directory, index
METS: Metadata encoding and transmission standard: The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. Includes news, documents, and sample schemas.
Author: Library of Congress
Subjects: digital library standards, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.344
Resource type: documents
MODELS: Moving to Distributed Environments for Library Services: The MODELS project involves the examination of metadata and the collections they describe. Metadata and collections currently reside in multiple disjointed print and digital resource spaces. MODELS seeks to explain and analyse some of the issues involved in reducing this disjointedness and moving towards more unified access to information systems and resources.
Author: UKOLN
Subjects: digital library design, metadata, z39.50
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: documents
Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification: Document proposing the use of metadata, data about data, to describe information on the Web. Introduces a model and grammar for representing RDF metadata and syntax, using XML, for encoding and transporting metadata, maximising the interoperability of independently developed Web servers and clients.
Author: W3C
Subjects: metadata, rdf, xml
DeweyClass: 005.7
Resource type: article
Review of Metadata: A Survey of Current Resource Description Formats: Project details including a review of metadata issues and an outline of resource description formats. Part of the DESIRE project.
Author: Dempsey, Lorcan & Heery, Rachel
Subjects: metadata
DeweyClass: 025.344
Resource type: document
RSLP Collection Description Schema: Provides the widely used collection description schema as proposed by the UK Office of Library and Information Networking and derived from Michael Heaney's related report, 'An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues'. Provides a definitive set of metadata attributes to ensure the effective description of library, archive and museum collections.
Author: UKOLN
Subjects: digital library management, information retrieval, library management, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.32
Resource type: document
SIMILE: Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments: Research project aiming to enhance interoperability among digital assets, schemas, metadata, and services. A key challenge is that the collections that must interoperate are often distributed across individual, community, and institutional stores.
Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Subjects: information retrieval, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: documents
Unique Identifiers in a Digital World: Article describing initiatives to develop unique identifiers for digital objects. Based on a seminar organised jointly by Book Industry Communication and the UK Office for Library and Information Networking. Briefly describes Digital Object Identifier (DOI), Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (SICI), Book Item and Component Identifier (BICI), and Publisher Item Identifier (PII). Also summarises results of group reports and a plenary discussion.
Author: Powell, Andy
Subjects: internet resource classification, metadata
DeweyClass: 025.344
Resource type: article