27 articles in this issue
Preliminary pages including Program Committee listing and Table of Contents.
Deborah Maron,Erin Carter
Metadata is a term no longer only of interest to information professionals; recently, it has also compelled a wider global population. How might the metadata community guide popular understandings around metadata’s relationship to privacy, surveillance, a... see more
Maja Žumer,Pat Riva
The IFLA Library Reference Model (IFLA LRM) consolidates the three models of the FRBR Family. In this paper first the differences between the three models are presented as well as the major modeling and presentation issues identified. The main part is the... see more
Saho Yasumatsu,Tomoko Okuda
The National Diet Library (NDL) is the sole national library of Japan, and assigns Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to digital surrogates of its collections and other acquired digital objects as a means for ensuring permanent accessibility to them. Those... see more
Richard P. Smiraglia
Digital repositories are particularly susceptible to the problem of uncontrolled data and metadata instantiation because of the complex lifecycles of data deposit, use, and reuse. In repositories that require deposit of research data on a large scale, ins... see more
Karen Sandra Smith-Yoshimura
More than half of the almost 400 million bibliographic records in WorldCat are for languages other than English. Most of the monographs described were published only once. But a few million represent the core of our shared culture—works that have been tra... see more
Erin Wolfe
The Digital Initiatives department at the University of Kansas Libraries is in the process of migrating digital collections and assets to a locally hosted instance of Islandora to serve as our primary digital repository. As a key part of this process, we ... see more
Jacob Jett,Timothy W. Cole,Alex Kinnamen,Deren Kudeki,Myung-Ja (MJ) K. Han,Caroline Szylowicz
Library special collections are valued by scholars and relied on to support both research and teaching. In recent years libraries have invested heavily in digitizing many of these collections. Unfortunately less effort and fewer resources have been expend... see more
Ana Alice Baptista,Sara Catarina Silva
The SusCity project, an MIT Portugal project, falls within the scope of smart cities. One of its tasks aims to research and develop metadata artefacts to be used in the scope of a Linked Open Data platform for the project’s data. In this article, we repo... see more
Adrienne Milner Hieb,Matthew M. Pearson,Mitchell Shelton
Historically, NASA mission information has not been maintained in any single, accessible authority. To both achieve its goal of creating better connections in GSFCIR and to provide a valuable resource to present and future NASA communities, the Goddard Li... see more
Jason Kovari,Steven Folsom,Rebecca Younes
bibliotek-o is a framework for modeling bibliographic metadata as linked data. Consisting of the BIBFRAME ontology at its core, the bibliotek-o ontology defines fragments of external ontologies and an application profile specifying the recommended impleme... see more
Charlotte Suzanne Kostelic
This paper applies the Levels of Conceptual Interoperability Model to a case study of two cultural heritage institutions with disparate but related collections in an effort to define a maturity model for interoperability between presentations of digitized... see more
Maria Esteva,Ashley Adair,Sivakumar Ayeegoundanpalay Kulasekaran,Josue Balandrano Coronel,Craig Jansen
We introduce work accomplished to design and implement a data model and metadata for ongoing curation and publication of natural hazards engineering data derived from experimental research projects. The data model was designed with the input of researcher... see more
Elizabeth Russey Roke,Daniel Noonan
Representatives of the Software Preservation Network Metadata Working Group will present preliminary results from its analysis of metadata for software preservation, discussing a survey of existing practices as well as a crosswalk of existing ontologies a... see more
Michael D. Crandall,Stuart A. Sutton,Marcia Lei Zeng,Thomas Baker,Abigail Evans,Sean Dolan,Joseph Chapman,David Talley,Michael Lauruhn
The IMLS-funded Linked Data for Professional Education (LD4PE) project has developed a competency-based prototype referatory of Learning Resources for teaching and learning practices in the design, implementation, and management of Linked Data. This repor... see more
Jeanette Norris
Descriptive metadata should match users’ expectations of the information that is available to search against. The methodology used for the research discussed in this presentation focuses on how users describe books outside of the context of an existing se... see more
Jeanne Kitchens,Stuart A. Sutton,Robert G. Sheets
This presentation describes the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL) --an RDF schema-- and a set of open source applications intended to support rich description of credentials througout the credentialing ecosystem. The metadata infrastruc... see more
Huda Khan,Lynette Rayle,Rebecca Younes
The Mellon Foundation-funded Linked Data For Libraries Labs (LD4L Labs) and Linked Data For Libraries Production (LD4P) projects are exploring how to support library systems transition to the use of linked open data. As part of this work, we are developi... see more
Alexandra Alisa Provo,Michel Biezunski
This presentation outlines work on a new approach to digital scholarly monograph subject metadata currently being undertaken by New York University’s Digital Library Technology Services department as part of the Mellon-funded grant project, Enhanced Netwo... see more
Oksana Zavalina
This submission presents the graduate metadata courses offered by the X university and reports a case study of an experiment in the design of an advanced graduate metadata course. We made the changes to course design to facilitate the skill-building comp... see more
Jennifer Gilbert,Alison Raab Labonte,Franz Osorio
The Research Library at the Federal Reserve Board developed the Board Subject Taxonomy (BST) by organizing and standardizing key concepts in a vocabulary of subject terms that describe research and policy work conducted at the Board. The goal was not just... see more
Mihwa Lee,Jee-Hyun Rho,Eun-Ju Lee,Yoon Kyung Choi
OAK (Open Access Korea) hosted by National Library of Korea is the national portal of institutional repository participating universities, public institutions, researches, and businesses. OAK has used OAK metadata based on DSpace to build OAK portal, and ... see more
Naomi Eichenlaub,Marina Morgan
The aim of this poster is to demonstrate the importance of adequate metadata in ORCID profiles to ensure name disambiguation. It is only through more complete metadata that ORCID will ensure success in terms of interoperability with institutional scholarl... see more
Ryouta Kinjou,Mitsuharu Nagamori,Shigeo Sugimoto
Linked Open Data(LOD), which is one of the efforts to help realize semantic web, has gradually become popular. Many Linked Open Data datasets, however are not well utilized. There are multiple reasons for this, such as a low level of recognition of LOD, l... see more
Mark A. Matienzo,Elizabeth Russey Roke,Scott Carlson
The objective of this poster is to provide an overview of efforts to apply and extend Schema.org for archives and archival description. The authors see the application of Schema.org and extensions as a low barrier means to publish easily consumable linked... see more
Anne M. Washington,Weidner Weidner
In 2015, after an extensive review process, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries chose the open source systems Hyku (then known as the Hydra-in-a-Box project), Archivematica, and ArchivesSpace to form the Libraries’ digital collections access and pres... see more
Jennifer Sweeney
Created with the Blind and Visually Impaired as the designated community, this project embodies methodology and a use case scenario for utilizing new data model to enhance and optimize metadata for compatibility with screen readers. This paper presents an... see more