17 articles in this issue
Akira Miyazawa
This paper discusses the parallel writing tradition in East Asian languages and its representation in metadata. Parallel writing systems in these languages do not use the same scripts, but they all share a common scheme, and they have a well-established ... see more
Matthias Palmér,Fredrik Enoksson,Mikael Nilsson,Ambjörn Naeve
Most of today's generic annotation tools for Semantic Web metadata (RDF) are designed for experts. People with no or little knowledge about RDF are therefore forced to use simplified and often domain-specific tools that work with fixed sets of metadata el... see more
Pru Mitchell
This paper outlines the ongoing work in the area of metadata for events being undertaken by Australia’s ICT in education agency, education.au. Calendars of conferences, opportunities and celebrations of interest to Australia’s education and training commu... see more
Abdul Halim Abdul,Abdus Sattar Chaudhy,Christopher S.G. Khoo
A repository of learning objects (LOs) is being built to investigate the usability aspects of LOs as part of a doctoral dissertation project. Enhanced description of LOs is considered an important step in this effort. Among other things, use of metadata ... see more
Dave Clarke,Pei Jiun Tan
Controlled vocabularies enhance precision and recall but sometimes they achieve this at the expense of imposing a prescribed terminology and a homogeneous worldview upon a heterogeneous user community. Folksonomies allow end-users the freedom to describe ... see more
Constantia Kakali,Irene Lourdi,Thomais Stasinopoulou,Lina Bountouri,Christos Papatheodorou,Martin Doerr,Manolis Gergatsoulis
Cultural heritage collections are related to historical events and depict the customs of human societies. Their main characteristic is that they consist of heterogeneous objects, which usually are described by a variety of metadata schemas. Dublin Core Me... see more
Sueyeon Syn,Michael B. Spring
The description of Web resources is one of the problems related to the development of the Semantic Web. The major problem in metadata generation is due to lack of experts and tremendous amount of web resources. It is expected that an automated system woul... see more
Steven Wan Wu,Barbara Reed,Paul Loke
The NHB’s virtual repository project which resulted in SCROL (“Singapore Cultural Resources Online”) was launched in August 2006. This Web-based repository pulls data and images from multiple information resources without the need to modify the existing d... see more
Thomas Severiens,Jane Greenberg
This paper reports on the DCMI Tools application profile for describing metadata applications. The paper defines the metadata tools landscape; presents the steps to develop the application profile; and presents the DCMI Tools application profile and taxon... see more
Jane Greenberg,Sarah Carrier,Jed Dube
DRIADE (Digital Repository of Information and Data for Evolution) is a project being developed for the acquisition, preservation, sharing and re-use of heterogeneous data in support of published research in the field of evolutionary biology. Metadata is ... see more
Jon Mason,Helen Galatis
This paper is divided into two main sections that cover the theory and practice of metadata application profile development in Australian education and training. A range of historical and theoretical perspectives are discussed with emphasis upon the fact ... see more
Diane I. Hillmann,Jon Phipps
In this paper, we explore a range of issues yet to be addressed in the large-scale use of application profiles. While considerable attention has been paid to human-readable application profiles, there is a growing need for machine-readable application pr... see more
Ann Apps
The JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) aims to assist other applications, to discover and devolve materials that match their users’ interests in their research, learning and teaching. This paper describes the experience of using an appli... see more
Douglas Campbell
Identifying and labeling things is what we all do every day; it is how we communicate about the things in the world around us, e.g. “please pass the salt” or “my ticket is for seat D3”. Identifying things and assigning identifiers to them is also a fundam... see more
Mitsuharu Nagamori,Shigeo Sugimoto
Metadata schema registries have a large potential to enhance usability and reusability of metadata schemas. Application profiles are a key concept for Dublin Core, and have a crucial role in promoting reuse of metadata schemas. This paper discusses basic ... see more
Ruan Yang,Chennupati K. Ramaiah,Schubert Foo
This paper describes the design and development of a Virtual Archival Exhibition System (VAES) that facilitates the authoring of Web-based virtual exhibitions that can be tailored to serve the needs of various user groups. Based on an XML-based metadata d... see more