33 articles in this issue
Preliminary pages including introductory comments, Program Committee listing and table of contents.
Biswanath Dutta,Durgesh Nandini,Gautam Kishore Shahi
Ontology is an important artifact of Semantic Web applications. Today, there are an enormous number of ontologies available on the Web. Even so, finding and identifying the right ontology is not easy. This is because the majority of ontologies are either ... see more
Isabelle Mougenot,Jean-Christophe Desconnets,Hatim Chahdi
Satellite imagery can be exploited for any number of thematic analyses for Earth observation purposes. Characterization activities using remotely acquired data are currently made complicated by different limitations relating to, as an example, the meaning... see more
Mariana Curado Malta,Ana Alice Baptista,Cristina Parente
This article presents a work-in-progress version of a Dublin Core Application Profile (DCAP) developed to serve the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE). Studies revealed that this community is interested in implementing both internal interoperability betw... see more
Hannah Tarver,Mark Phillips,Oksana Zavalina,Priya Kizhakkethil
This paper presents results of an exploratory quantitative analysis of subject representation in the large dataset of over 8 million item-level metadata records in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) originating from a number of institutions that... see more
Myung-Ja K. Han,Timothy W. Cole,Patricia Lampron,M. Janina Sarol
Libraries have been busy transforming and publishing their data as linked open data by testing already existing semantics and developing new sets of semantics. So far, most of the efforts have focused on the bibliographic data, not the holdings and item r... see more
Hannah Tarver,Mark Phillips
This paper presents the results of an exploratory analysis of edit events performed on records in the University of North Texas Libraries’ Digital Collections during calendar year 2014. By comparing the amount of time that editors worked on records ... see more
Edward M. Krause,Erin Clary,Adrian Ogletree,Jane Greenberg
Dryad is a curated digital archive for data associated with scholarly publications. In an effort to facilitate the discoverability, reusability, and interoperability of archived content, Dryad has implemented a standardized set of metadata elements in the... see more
Liddy Nevile,Eva M. Méndez
In this paper, the authors question the role and naming of ‘application profiles’ (APs). It is not a research paper but aims to initiate a discussion that the authors think is pertinent. Both have been involved in the development and use of application pr... see more
Emma Tonkin
The ongoing accessibility of digital material is challenged by the constantly changing environment in which it exists. In particular, application profiles are threatened by a number of factors such as loss of context, social change and linguistic change. ... see more
Thomas Bosch,Kai Eckert
In the context of the DCMI RDF Application Profile task group and the W3C Data Shapes Working Group solutions for the proper formulation of constraints and validation of RDF data on these constraints are being developed. Several approaches and constraint ... see more
Andrew Weidner,Annie Wu
The decision to migrate digital objects from one digital asset management system to another creates an excellent opportunity to clean and standardize descriptive metadata. The processes involved in moving large amounts of data from one platform to another... see more
Ayla Stein,Santi Thompson
This study identifies and explores metadata needs associated with migrating to a new Digital Asset Management System (DAMS). Drawing upon results from a 2014 survey, titled “Identifying Motivations for DAMS Migration: A Survey,” this paper analyzes survey... see more
Diego José Macêdo,Milton Shintaku,Ronnie Fagundes de Brito
Digital libraries are increasingly common, being developed by government agencies to disseminate and preserve the documentation produced by its employees. This proposes a challenge in describing this type of documents, dealing official aspects in tools th... see more
Rachel Cristina Vesu Alves,Ana Carolina Simionato,Felipe Augusto Arakaki,Paula Regina Ventura Amorim Gonçalez,Ana Paula Grisoto,Plácida Leopoldina Ventura Amorim da Costa Santos
Preservation of cultural heritage has been widely discussed in the last decades. Different groups of people contribute to the production and preservation of cultural heritage through personal and family performance. However, there is a lack of environment... see more
Morgana Carneiro Andrade,Ana Alice Rodrigues Pereira Baptista
Shows the results of a survey by questionnaire sent to the managers of 2,165 digital repositories registered at the OpenDoar. Its purpose was to identify the existence and the use of application profiles and related metadata schemas. Of this total, 431 qu... see more
Xia Lin,Michael Khoo,Jae-wook Ahn,Ceri Binding,Douglas Tudhope,Hilary Jones,Diana Massam
This paper presents a visualization interface for DDC-enriched metadata collections. Three sets of metadata from three different digital libraries were aggregated and re-indexed. Automatic analysis was performed to assign one or more DDC classes to each i... see more
Joachim Neubert
"What’s new?" and "What has changed?" are questions users of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), such as thesauri or classifications, ask when a new version is published. Much more so, when a thesaurus existing since the 1990s has been completely revise... see more
Carolyn Hansen,Sean Crowe
This report describes the initial phase of an experimental project to increase Web visibility of the Neil Armstrong Commemorative Archive, a digital collection of archival materials concerning astronaut Neil Armstrong’s tenure at the University of Cincinn... see more
John Kunze,Greg Janée,Joan Starr
EZID (pronounced easy-eye-dee) is an innovative service supporting the creation and management of identifiers, their accompanying metadata, and long-term access to things on the Internet. It is one of the few services that can supply a diversity of ident... see more
Cleverton Ferreira Borba,Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti Correa
This poster presents the use of metadata patterns for the field of Species Distribution Modeling and also presents a proposal for application of metadata to ensure interoperability between models generated by tools of Species Distribution Modeling (SDM).
Sophie Aubin,Pascal Aventurier,Ivo Júnior Pierozzi,Leandro Henrique Mendonça Oliveira
This poster proposes the use of a Dublin Core metadata standard to present and make available the models generated by the species distribution modeling tool openModeller, in order to facilitate interoperability of the data generated by tool itself or othe... see more
Lais Carrasco,Silvana A. Borsetti Gregorio Vidotti
In order to integrate information from heterogeneous sources, ontologies as semantic technologies is a recommend solution. "An ontology is a description (like a formal specification of a program) of the concepts and relationships that can formally exist f... see more
Thomas Baker,Michael D. Crandall,Stuart A. Sutton,Marcia Lei Zeng
The Linked Data for Professional Education (LD4PE) project described in this poster is funded by the U.S. Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and intended to develop an "Exploratorium" referatory for Linked Data learning resources description... see more
Deborah Maron,Jacob Hill
This poster reports on a study that aims to identify emerging trends in medadata employment and potential deficits in metadata education. This study extends a prior one by Marcia Zeng, using the same sample and methodology. The findings will help instruct... see more
Vilma Rocio Hualla Mamani,Reinhard Simon,Robert Mwanga,Henry Saul Juarez Soto,Genoveva Rossel Montesinos
The sweetpotato ontology is part of a community effort to establish a set standard nomenclature to describe crop development and agronomic traits to facilitate analyzing and sharing of phenotypic and genotypic information. The development and adoption of ... see more
Yue Zhang,Jane Greenberg,Adrian Ogletree,Garritt Tucker
Metadata challenges in the materials science community have surfaced due to national and international data sharing policies and the Material Genome Initiative. Among the more pressing challenges is the need to develop semantic ontologies, given their ca... see more
Elaine Parra Affonso,Elizabete Cristina de Souza de Aguiar Monteiro,Ricardo César Gonçalves Sant'ana
This poster presents a study of interoperability between the National Library and the libraries of the UNESP, in order to identify the adhesion's degree between the MARC 21 standards and the Dublin Core fields present in import bibliographic records from ... see more
Sally Wilson,Marina Morgan
The purpose of this poster is to provide insight into the processes involved in creating a unique and interdisciplinary online exhibition focused on a unique chapter of Canadian history from World War I. The exhibition focuses on the Colebourn Family Arch... see more
Agnei Silva,Cleverton Ferreira Borba,Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti Correa
Felipe Augusto Arakaki,Plácida Leopoldina Ventura Amorim da Costa Santos,Rachel Cristina Vesu Alves
This poster describes a study on the evolution of the Dublin Core standard as reflected in the literature between 1995-2013. The work discusses the main developmental themes studied during the research: (1) application profiles, (2) languages, (3) me... see more
Adriana Carla Silva de Oliveira,Guilherme Ataíde Dias,Renata Lemos dos Anjos,Virgínia Miranda de Souza,Pedro Luiz P. Corrêa
This research contextualizes the contemporary state of the scientific communication. The technological infrastructure, standards, protocols, tools, and methodologies are essential for scientific open data management. Our focus is on the scientific primary... see more
Ana Carolina Simionato,Plácida Leopoldina Ventura Amorim da Costa Santos
This posper presents the digital images for Libraries, Archives and Museum conceptual model (DILAM). DILAM's is based in several conceptual models from different application contexts and it was conceived in order to be compatible with the FRBR Model. DILA... see more