36 articles in this issue
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John S. Kendall
Educators and publishers in the field of K–12 education have long had an interest in identifying and retrieving curriculum materials by the learning objectives that these materials serve. A review of the efforts undertaken to accomplish this goal highligh... see more
Rachel Heery,Pete Johnston,Csaba Fülöp,András Micsik
The CORES metadata schemas registry is designed to enable users to discover and navigate metadata element sets. The paper reflects on some of the experiences of implementing the registry, and examines some of the issues of promoting such services in the c... see more
Carmen Pancerella,John Hewson,Wendy Koegler,David Leahy,Michael Lee,Larry Rahn,Christine Yang,James D. Myers,Brett Didier,Renata McCoy,Karen Schuchardt,Eric Stephan,Theresa Windus,Kaizar Amin,Sandra Bittner,Carina Lansing,Michael Minkoff,Sandeep Nijsure,Gregor von Laszewski,Reinhardt Pinzon,Branko Ruscic,Al Wagner,Baoshan Wang,William Pitz,Yen-Ling Ho,David Montoya,Lili Xu,Thomas C. Allison,William H. Green, Jr.,Michael Frenklach
The goal of the Collaboratory for the Multi-scale Chemical Sciences (CMCS) [1] is to develop an informatics-based approach to synthesizing multi-scale chemistry information to create knowledge in the chemical sciences. CMCS is using a portal and metadata-... see more
Sally McClean,Brian Scotney,Hans Rutjes
This paper describes the technologies developed for the extraction and publication of large volumes of statistical information, such as are produced by public data collection organisations and National Statistical Institutes (NSIs); the approach has been ... see more
Ann Apps,Ross MacIntyre
OpenURLs are already in use in digital library information services providing links between resources that are appropriate to the context of the end-user. The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, asystematic generalisation of the existing de ... see more
Gauri Salokhe,James Weinheimer,Maria Grazia Bovo,Moira Agrimi,Johannes Keizer,Stephen Katz
This paper proposes that for scientific and technical information resources, a well-structured and high-quality metadata record contains enough information to find that resource on the Internet, and as a consequence, no additional human labour is needed t... see more
Naomi Dushay,Diane I. Hillmann
Using a commercially available visual graphical analysis tool, the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) has developed techniques to expedite evaluation of large batches of metadata. These techniques allow efficient and thorough review of large quantiti... see more
William E. Moen,Penelope Benardino
Metadata schemes emerge to meet community and user requirements, and they evolve over time to meet changing requirements. This paper reports results of an analysis of a large sample of MARC 21 bibliographic records. MARC 21 is an encoding scheme related c... see more
Allen Renear,David Dubin
By "identity conditions" we mean a method for determining whether an object x and an object y are the same object. Identity conditions are arguably an essential feature of any rigorously developed conceptual framework for information modeling. Surprising... see more
Carol Jean Godby,Devon Smith,Eric Rogers Childress
This paper describes a prototype for a Web service that translates between pairs of metadata schemas. Despite a current trend toward encoding in XML and XSLT, we present arguments for a design that features a more distinct separation of syntax from semant... see more
Nicholaos Mourkoussis,Martin White,Manjula Patel,Jacek Chmielewski,Krzysztof Walczak
This paper discusses a novel metadata element set fordescribing cultural heritage objects and their digital representations, which is particularly useful for building virtual exhibitions. The element set is based on several international standards and cur... see more
Corey A. Harper,Nathan Georgitis,Carol Hixson
This paper documents the development of a digital library of still images created by photographer Lee Moorhouse on the Umatilla Indian Reservation at the turn of the 20th century. The University of Oregon Libraries, working with the Tamastslikt Cultural I... see more
Alison M. While,Alan Baker,Marty Bloss,Paul E. Burrows,Efthimis N. Efthimiadis,Marcia Brooks,David MacCarn,Thom Shepard,Cate Twohill
PB Core is the result of the public broadcasting metadata initiative (PBMI). It is an effort of the public radio and television broadcasters to develop a schema for the description of their assets. PBMI is under the auspices of the Corporation for Public ... see more
Gregory M. Shreve,Marcia Lei Zeng
Resource level metadata markup alone cannot describe the rich, granular, associative and recombinant information objects potentially contained in modern digital libraries. Today, powerful mechanisms for content and structure description of documents exis... see more
Kevin J. Hegg,Andreas R. Knab
The Madison Digital Image Database (MDID) is an Internet-based content delivery system designed to allow instructors to teach with digital images and image catalog data. James Madison University (JMU) is currently developing an enterprise-level version of... see more
Deane Henderson Zeeman,Joy Bell
Library and Archives Canada is the registrar of controlled vocabularies for the Government of Canada domain. In support of this role, an open source registration application has been developed.
Margret Branschofsky,Rebecca Lubas,MacKenzie Smith,Sarah Williams
As the DSpace digital repository system develops, various metadata needs have emerged to accommodate the differing uses being made of the system. In the initial stages of the project a qualified form of the Dublin Core metadata set was developed for use w... see more
Kimberly S. Lightle,Judy Ridgway,Janet Kahkonen Smith
This poster describes the processes and products related to the ENC development of crosswalks between metadata based on three different standards and the generation of a variety of XML records.
Sarah L. Shreeves,Timothy W. Cole
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been funded to create a collection registry and item-level metadata repository for digital collections and content created under the auspices of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Nationa... see more
Ellen Knutson,Carol Palmer,Michael Twidale
We are investigating how resource developers can best represent digital collections and items to meet the requirements of divergent service providers and user communities. Our first goal is to establish a baseline that describes the institutions, collecti... see more
Shubhada Nagarkar,Harsha Parekh,V.L. Manjul
This paper reports on a study that examined the author generated metadata for 13th–17th century manuscripts. For the study 30 different handwritten Marathi (local language of Maharashtra State, India) manuscripts by Marathi poet saints were analyzed crit... see more
Laura M. Bartolo,Cathy S. Lowe
Materials Property Data Markup Language (MatML) provides detailed materials property information necessary for the exchange of materials science digital resources among users. Dublin Core (DC) provides a consistent generic characterization of content impo... see more
Sara Barham
This paper describes a new approach to service and process metadata description for an all of government portal, to enable users to gain access to New Zealand government "processes".
Kathleen Forsythe,Alan Grosenheider,Eileen Llona,Jennifer Ward
Preliminary findings on the deployment of metadata for a project using DSpace at the University of Washington Libraries are presented. Problems encountered include mapping user-provided metadata for a domain-specific image collection to Dublin Core. Creat... see more
Barbara Richards,Boris Lauser,Johannes Keizer,Stephen Katz
In order to provide thematic access to the large scale web site of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), we have adapted a scheme used in bibliographical databases to allow subject browsing on FAO’s web site. This requires categorizing existing dat... see more
Dan Noyes
This paper describes the work of the UK JISC-funded Talking Systems project. It reports on how Dublin Core elements from SCORM learning objects were used for exposure to a library catalogue running a Z39.50 server complying with the Bath Profile in order ... see more
Xin Xiang,Ling Guo,Yuanchun Shi
With the progress of Web-based learning technologies, standardized digital repositories and learning management systems are becoming prevalent over time. The heterogeneity in underlying databases and access methods, however, makes it difficult to share an... see more
Michael Day
There are a large number of metadata standards and initiatives that have relevance to digital preservation, e.g. those designed to support the work of national and research libraries, archives and digitization initiatives. This paper introduces some of th... see more
Jane Barton,Sarah Currier,Jessie M. N. Hey
This paper challenges some of the assumptions underlying the metadata creation process in the context of two communities of practice, based around learning object repositories and open e-Print archives. The importance of quality assurance for metadata cre... see more
Jane Greenberg,Abe Crystal,W. Davenport Robertson,Ellen Leadem
The National Institute of Environmental Heath Sciences (NIEHS), as part of the Metadata Generation Research Project, is exploring resource authors' abilities for creating acceptable metadata. As part of this work, two different versions of the NIEHS Dubli... see more
Wonsook Lee,Shigeo Sugimoto,Mitsuharu Nagamori,Tetsuo Sakaguchi,Koichi Tabata
The Internet has a lot of rich information resources available in different languages aside from English, the major language of use. Those resources are, however, not easy to access because of language barriers. This paper proposes a collaborative model ... see more
Elaine L. Westbrooks
Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository, CUGIR, is a Web-based repository providing free access to geospatial data and metadata for New York State. Access is enhanced by transforming and re-purposing geospatial (FGDC) metadata into DC-RDF, Me... see more
Sheila Denn,Stephanie W. Haas,Carol A. Hert
As part of an NSF-funded effort to work toward a national statistical knowledge network, we have been working to determine what elements of statistical metadata are most crucial for end users as they attempt to find and use data from US Federal statistica... see more
Ya-ning Chen,Shu-jiun Chen,Hon-chung Sum,Simon C. Lin
This paper aims to construct a common set of functional requirements for metadata systems based on the research of metadata system specifications at the National Digital Archives Program (NDAP) in Taiwan. Eight projects of the NDAP are chosen as a case st... see more
Enrico Francesconi,G. Peruginell
The problems of accessing legal information and, in particular, legal literature are examined in conjunction with the creation of a portal to Italian legal doctrine. The design and implementation of services such as integrated access to a wide range of re... see more