39 articles in this issue
Roberto Caldelli,Franco Bartolini,Vito Cappellini
In this poster an application for embedding, inside a digital image, metadata for identifying its IPR status is presented; this insertion has been achieved by means of a digital watermarking technique. This technology has been developed within the IST 210... see more
D. Grant Campbell
This paper examines the implications of annotation programs, such as Annotea, for the development of the Dublin Core. Annotation programs enable multiple users, situated far apart, to comment on a Web-mounted document, even when they lack write access,thr... see more
Boris Lauser,Tanja Wildemann,Allison Poulos,Frehiwot Fisseha,Johannes Keizer,Stephen Katz
This paper presents our ongoing work in establishing a multilingual domain ontology for a biosecurity portal. As a prototypical approach, this project is embedded into the bigger context of the Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) project of the Food and A... see more
Rachel Heery,Pete Johnston,Dave Beckett,Damian Steer
SCART is an RDF schema creation tool designed for use by implementers working within digital library and learning environments. This schema creation and registration tool is being developed to work in conjunction with registry software. SCART will provide... see more
Alastair G. Smith
This study investigates the effectiveness of metadata on websites. Specifically, the study investigated whether the extent of metadata use by a site influences the Web Impact Factor (WIF) of the site. The WIF is a Webometric measure of the recognition tha... see more
Sandra Fricker Hostetter
The corporate world is drowning in disparate data. Data elements, field names, column names, row names, labels, metatags, etc. seem to reproduce at whim. Librarians have been battling data disparity for over a century with tools like controlled vocabulari... see more
Andrea Zisman,John Chelsom,Niki Dinsey,Stephen Katz,Fernando Servan
In this paper we present our experience of using Web services to support interoperability of data sources at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. We describe the information bus architecture based on Web services to assist with mul... see more
Marco Pirri,Maria Chiara Pettenati,Dino Giuli
Access to distributed and heterogeneous Internet resources is coming up as one of the major problem for future development of the next generation of Digital Libraries. Available data sources vary in terms of data representation and access interfaces, ther... see more
John Roberts
This paper describes New Zealand E-government activities supporting the discovery of services through the use of Dublin Core-based New Zealand Government Locator Service (NZGLS) metadata. It notes the issues faced in collecting service metadata from agenc... see more
Sara Barham
This paper summarises key implementation issues encountered with the New Zealand Government’s discovery level Dublin Core-based metadata standard, NZGLS. In particular, it discusses the processes used to create and manage NZGLS-compliant metadata througho... see more
Michael Currie,Meigan Geileskey,Liddy Nevile,Richard Woodman
This paper proposes a visualisation of interoperability to assist real-world deployment of metadata. For some time, resource managers in many organisations have been acting on faith, creating 'standards compliant' metadata with the aim of exposing their r... see more
Julie Robinson
This paper describes the Department for Education and Skills' (DfES) practical approach to tackling metadata and surrounding issues. A metadata pilot project was set up by the Library and Information Services Team to develop a metadata scheme for departme... see more
Theo van Veen,Robina Clayphan
The European Library Project (TEL), sponsored by the European Commission, brings together 10 major European national libraries and library organisations to investigate the technical and policy issues involved in sharing digital resources. The objective of... see more
Ray S. Atarashi,Shigeru Miyake,Fred Baker
Quality of service (QoS) technology has been implemented to be applied to new applications on the next-generation Internet. However, as new applications such as P2P and stream application have many kinds of features and requirements, some additional featu... see more
Mida Boghetich,Paolo Ciuccarelli,Perla Innocenti,Federico Vidari
This poster presents the development of DesignNet, a knowledge-based project to the online digital display, retrieval and archiving of rich media resources for industrial design education and research. The project addresses the needs of end-users (teacher... see more
Patrick Carmichael
Diana Dale,Ron Rog
In Canada, as elsewhere around the world, government is trying to move into the Internet Age, to communicatemore and more interactively with an everincreasing portion of the electorate and to increase the interoperability of digitized media. The Canadian ... see more
Prue Deacon
HealthInsite is the Australian federal government's Internet gateway to quality health information. The site was an early adopter of Dublin Core and makes extensive use of metadata in its navigation structure. HealthInsite has two search options utilising... see more
Corey A. Harper,Jane Greenberg,W. Davenport Robertson,Ellen M. Leadem
This poster documents issues in formalizing the National Institute of Environment Health Sciences (NIEHS) Application Profile, specifically the changes implemented between Version 1 to Version 2, which were influenced by revisions madeto the NIEHS metadat... see more
I. T. Hawryszkiewycz
The paper describes learning objects in the context of a learning process. It examines options of integrating learning objects into context and supporting the integration with learning activities. The paper then examines the technology needed to support t... see more
Masatoshi Kawarasaki,Junichi Kishigami
This paper discusses the problems of content delivery in heterogeneous networking environment, and proposesframework architecture based on metadata. The proposed architecture will provide high-quality and user-friendly network services by using metadata a... see more
Christoph Kunz,Veit Botsch
We present a new approach for the representation of search results in a graphical user interface that allows navigating and exploring these results. An interactive matrix display is used for showing the hyperlinks of a site search or other search queries ... see more
Shubhada Nagarkar,Harsha Parekh
To enable Dublin Core metadata to become a global standard for locating information on the Web, it is essential that such metadata be provided in different languages and in a variety of scripts. This would enable search and retrieval of Web documents in a... see more
Liddy Nevile
Accessibility metadata is simply metadata that describes the accessibility of resources and services, usually those on, or available through, the web. Awareness of widespread web content inaccessibility led to work being done to develop guidelines forauth... see more
Ewa Nieszkowska
The article presents four French projects on subject metadata use: a medical portal (Caducee.net1), a subject gateway (Les Signets2), a catalogue of patents (INPI, Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle3) and a full-text database of the daily news... see more
Karen Rollitt,Adrienne Kebbell,Douglas Campbell
Discover is a web resource supporting the visual arts and music curriculum in New Zealand schools. It contains 2500 multimedia items from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, which holds the national cultural heritage collections, and 300res... see more
Jens Vindvad,Erlend Øverby
A lot of work has been done in the field of metadata exchange. Particularly initiatives like Dublin Core, Open Archive Initiative and work with Learning Object Metadata (LOM). To demonstrate and test the concept of MicroSchema a new flexible XML-modelfor ... see more
K. Maly,M. Zubair,M. Nelson,X. Liu,H. Anan,J. Gao,J. Tang,Y. Zhao
Archon is a federation of physics collections with varying degrees of metadata richness. Archon uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAIPMH) to harvest metadata from distributed archives. The architecture of Archon is largel... see more
Maria Luisa Calanag,Koichi Tabata,Shigeo Sugimoto
In an environment of rapid technological change, collection managers face the challenge of ensuring that valuable resources remain accessible when there are changes to the technological context in which those resources are embedded. In this context of req... see more
Jane Greenberg,W. Davenport Robertson
Increasing the amount and quality of metadata is essential for realizing the Semantic Web. The research reported on in this article addresses this topic by investigating how resource authors might best collaborate with metadata experts to expedite and imp... see more
Jill Evans,Paul Shabajee
Although there are now vast numbers of digital images available via the Web, it is still the case that not enough is known or understood about how humans perceive and recognise image content, and use human language terms as a basis for retrieving and sele... see more
Norm Friesen,Jon Mason,Nigel Ward
Metadata schemas relevant to online education and training have recently achieved the milestone of formal standardization. Efforts are currently underway to bring these abstract models and theoretical constructs to concrete realization in the context of c... see more
Antonella Farsetti,Valdo Pasqui
District Architecture for Networked Editions (DAFNE) is a research project funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research aiming to develop a prototype of the national infrastructure for electronic publishing in Italy. The project’s ... see more
Ann Apps,Ross MacIntyre,Leigh Morris
MIMAS is a national UK data centre which provides networked access to resources to support learning and research across a wide range of disciplines. There was no consistent way of discovering information within this cross-domain, heterogeneous collection ... see more
Changtao Qu,Wolfgang Nejdl,Holger Schinzel
As its name implies, a native XML repository supports storage and management of XML in the original hierarchical form rather than in some other representations. In this paper we present our approach for integrating native XML repositories into Edutella, a... see more
Michael Magee,D’Arcy Norman,Julian Wood,Rob Purdy,Graeme Irwin
The University of Calgary Learning Commons has been developing solutions for the digitization and dissemination of educational digital assets for two years. The most recent work focused on creating digital books that can be accessed online and assembled f... see more
Piera Palma,Luca Petraglia,Gennaro Petraglia
Multimedia technology has been applied to many types of applications and the great amount of multimedia data need to be indexed. Especially the usage of digital video data is very popular today. In particular video browsing is a necessary activity in many... see more
Simon Pockley
Type has come to the fore as one of the primary organizing elements in the design of input forms suitable for the generation of high quality moving image metadata. A lack of semantic precision in both the definition and in the conceptual complexity of DC.... see more