26 articles in this issue
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Emma Tonkin,Andrew Hewson
The idea that metadata, particularly Dublin Core, could be usable as a Lego™-like construction kit has been a popular suggestion for over a decade. In this paper, we first explore what this metaphor originally meant – why the idea is so appealing, and wha... see more
Margaret Devey,Marie-Claude Côté,Leigh Bain,Lynne McAvoy
As the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative celebrates its 15th anniversary, the Government of Canada (GC) celebrates its 10th year of making information easier to find. The Government of Canada officially adopted the Dublin Core as its core metadata standard ... see more
Sherry Koshman
Data growth in the environmental sciences has resulted in multidimensional datasets that are heterogeneous and extensive. Scientific academic research includes scalar, sensor, or vector data, which may be publically available. The datasets generated ext... see more
Paul Asman,San Cannon,Christine Sommo
The Federal Reserve wanted to use RSS to represent not only news, such as press releases, but also data, such as exchange rates. The Fed hoped to use one set of feeds to accommodate two different audiences for RSS, human readers (at one remove) and self-c... see more
Jian Qin,Miao Chen,Xiaozhong Liu,Andrea Kathleen Wiggins
Linked entity data in metadata records builds a foundation for semantic web. Even though metadata records contain rich entity data, there is no linking between associated entities such as persons, datasets, projects, publications, or organizations. We con... see more
Carol Jean Godby
This article announces the availability of a crosswalk between ONIX 2.1 and MARC 21 developed by OCLC and illustrates how it is used in the OCLC Metadata for Publishers project. To accomplish the goal of merging library and publisher metadata and anticipa... see more
Steven J. Miller
The DCMI One-to-One Principle holds that related but conceptually different entities, such as a photograph and a digital image of that photograph, should be represented by separate metadata records. In practice, however, large numbers of practitioners do ... see more
Hannah Tarver
The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries recently revised their Metadata Input Guidelines in order to improve usability and accessibility for metadata writers, and to enhance the quality of metadata that drives new features in their digital systems. ... see more
Louise Spiteri,Laurel Tarulli,Alyssa Graybeal
The specific goal of this project is to examine and compare how library users access, use, and interact with two social discovery systems used in two Canadian public library systems. Transaction log analysis will be conducted to answer the following rese... see more
Mary Jo Dorsey,Ellen Detlefsen
Objective: To describe the gaps in existing vocabularies and taxonomies that are used to retrieve literature on health issues for LGBT adolescents in order to build a working ontology of appropriate terms.Methods: A formal literature search on healthcar... see more
Sheila Bair,Susan Steuer
Individuals who wish to develop digital scholarly works and libraries that wish to provide access to their precious and fragile holdings have an interest in digitizing premodern manuscripts. These handmade objects are often beautiful and each one is uniq... see more
Lars G. Svensson
Within the cultural heritage community, it is increasingly common to distinguish the tasks of identification and addressing the object by using a location-independent Persistent Identifier (PI) such as a URN, a DOI, or a Handle linked to a URL describing ... see more
Ahsan Morshed,Gudrun Johannsen,Johannes Keizer,Marcia Lei Zeng
AGROVOC is one of the most important resources for covering the terminology of all subjects to interest the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (including agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains). AGROVOC is a ... see more
Alma B Rivera Aguilera,Magaly Vega Lopez,Acalia Pozo-Marrero
This poster reports a project which respond to the institutional needs of storage and preservation of teacher and student memories captured in digital learning material. Also propose a system for retrieval of digital learning material through adequate met... see more
Hsueh-hua Chen,Chiung-min Tsai,Ya-Chen Ho
This poster describes how we created a set of collection-level metadata for Taiwan’s digital collections, seeking to explore new facets of knowledge organization, facilitating the searching of information for users and the administering of resources for c... see more
Philipp Mayr,Benjamin Zapilko,York Sure
This case study proposes a scenario with three topic-related thesauri, which have been connected with bilateral cross-concordances as part of a major terminology mapping initiative in the project KoMoHe (Mayr et al., 2008). The thesauri have already been ... see more
Maja Zumer,Marcia Lei Zeng,Athena Salaba
According to the Singapore Framework, any development of a Dublin Core Application Profile (DCAP) has to include the creation of a domain model. DC Scholarly Works Application Profile (SWAP) was the first one explicitly using Functional Requirements for ... see more
Jenn Riley
The Variations/FRBR project at Indiana University is experimenting with implementing the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) conceptual model in order to further research on next-generation library catalogs and promote the re-usabilit... see more
Jennifer B. Bowen
To ensure that they can participate in the Semantic Web, libraries need to prepare their legacy metadata for use as linked data. eXtensible Catalog (XC) software facilitates converting legacy library data into linked data using a platform that enables ris... see more
Yunyun Shen,Long Xiao,Ying Feng
This paper reports a project named “General Rules of National Digital Library Metadata”, trying to build a metadata application framework for National Library of China (NLC). It aims at solving the applications of DC in Chinese digital library, developing... see more
Sarah Buchanan
PolicyArchive collects public policy research from over 700 known research publishers and makes these documents accessible in a navigable digital library. The contributions of thousands of publications from these providers enables in-depth secondary sourc... see more
Myung-Ja K. Han,Sheila Bair,Jason Lee
The OCLC CONTENTdm Metadata Working Group was formed in response to research demonstrating the need for guidelines and best practices for creating quality Dublin Core metadata, which is useful to the primary user community, but also “shareable” outside of... see more
Stephanie Ogeneski Christensen,Douglas Donald Dunlop
The current mandate to digitize all collections at the Smithsonian Institution along with the increasing need to share data and increase access to collections has made it essential to establish institutional metadata standards, including those for embeddi... see more
James E. Andrews,Denise Shereff,Timothy Patrick,Rachel Richesson
Question and answer sets are the core of clinical research. The [RD] PRISM (Patient Registry Item Specifications and Metadata for Rare Disease) project will provide a library of standardized questions across a broad spectrum of rare diseases that can be u... see more
Jacques Ducloy,Thierry Daunois,Muriel Foulonneau,Alice Hermann,Jean-Charles Lamirel,Stéphane Sire,Jean-Pierre Thomesse,Christine Vanoirbeek
This paper introduces metadata issues in the framework of the WICRI project, a network of semantic wikis for communities in research and innovation. A wiki can be related to an institution, to a research field (mainly, environment or ICT at this time), or... see more