Metadata and M Guide - Resources and Review

Information about principles for document identification, a mechanism for a publisher item identifier (PII) and the relationship between revised (1996) SICI and PII.
 
Resources about the Dublin Metadata Core Element Set, a simple information resource description which also aims to provide a basis for semantic interoperability between other, probably more complicated, formats and is also intended to provide the basis for resource embedded description, initially with HTML documents.
 
In order to minimise the amount of time needed to create and maintain metadata, and to maximise its usefulness to the widest community of users, there is a need for the metadata created and maintained in one standard to be accessible via related content metadata standards. This article purports that harmonisation is the process of ensuring consistency in the specification of related content metadata standards, while a fully specified crosswalk provides the ability to create and maintain one set of metadata, and to map that metadata to any number of related content metadata standards. The article presents the key issues involved in crosswalk development and identifies those areas in which harmonisation can play a role.
 
Links to documents archived by IFLA and external resources relating to metadata. Metadata is data about data. The term refers to any data used to aid the identification, description and location of networked electronic resources.
 
Describes the principles governing the Dublin Core element refinement and encoding scheme qualifiers. Also provides a summary and definitions approved by the DCMI Usage Committee.
 
Provides the widely used collection description schema as proposed by the UK Office of Library and Information Networking and derived from Michael Heaney's related report, 'An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues'. Provides a definitive set of metadata attributes to ensure the effective description of library, archive and museum collections.
 
Identifies and explores the dynamics of the literature associated with the Dublin Core Workshop Series. Concludes that a shift from a descriptive emphasis to a more empirical form of literature is about to take place and identifies future research questions in the areas of satisfying searcher needs, the impact of surrogate descriptions on search engine performance, and the effectiveness of surrogate descriptions in authenticating Internet resources.
 
Substantial article about metadata (data which describes the attributes and contents of an original document or work). It covers the need for metadata, its creation, effect upon search engines, problems, and stumbling blocks. An associated article on metadata projects and standards gives a detailed summary of metadata systems, registries, and projects.
 
This introduction to metadata helps to explain what metadata is all about, why it is needed, and the advantages it offers. Dublin Core, GILS, metadata creation, and mapping are covered, and a list of Web resources and a glossary are included. Available in PDF only.
 
Document proposing the use of metadata, data about data, to describe information on the Web. Introduces a model and grammar for representing RDF metadata and syntax, using XML, for encoding and transporting metadata, maximising the interoperability of independently developed Web servers and clients.
 
Report published by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Delivers precisely stated parameters and a conceptual model concerning what bibliographic records aim to provide information about and what is required within those records to achieve user satisfaction.
 
Project which aims to develop indexing services, user tools, and metadata element sets in order to promote the use and exploitation of metadata on the Internet.
 
Project details including a review of metadata issues and an outline of resource description formats. Part of the DESIRE project.
 
This service will retrieve a web page and automatically generate Dublin Core HTML META tags suitable for embedding in the HEAD section of the page. The generated tags can be edited using the form provided. Optional, context sensitive, help is available while editing.
 
The Dublin Core is a 15
element metadata set intended to facilitate discovery of electronic resources. Originally conceived for author-generated description of Web resources, it has also attracted the attention of formal resource description communities such as museums and libraries.
 
Set of links to items about metadata, defined as 'machine understandable information for the Web'. Includes details of related news, events, publications, project groups, discussion forums and recommended reading.
 
CORC is a research project exploring the cooperative creation and sharing of metadata by libraries. It is designed to help both libraries and OCLC to move more quickly in coping with the huge amount of material available on the Web and to provide access to this material that can be integrated with access to their current resources. Features of CORC include authority control, RDF / XML import/export, integration of DC and MARC in single system, flexible harvesting of resources, Unicode support, assisted classification and subject heading assignment, automatic keyword extraction, automated data extraction, link maintenance and reference access
Z39.50, browsing interfaces.
 
Details of the Instructional Management Systems Project (IMS) which is developing a specification and software for managing online learning resources in order to assist effective discovery and management of educational materials, including intellectual property rights, commerce, and customisation of learning experiences.
 
Collaborative project between the national libraries of Europe and publishers of electronic material to devise authoritative ways of describing electronic publications for catalogues and other listings. Includes a study of metadata and the transmission of data between publishers and libraries. Funded under the European Commission's Telematics Applications Project.
 
Provides an introduction to the Resource Description Framework (RDF) metadata format devised by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to provide the foundation for metadata interoperability across different resource description communities.
 
The MODELS project involves the examination of metadata and the collections they describe. Metadata and collections currently reside in multiple disjointed print and digital resource spaces. MODELS seeks to explain and analyse some of the issues involved in reducing this disjointedness and moving towards more unified access to information systems and resources.
 
Prepared by the National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) and Association for Information and Image Management, this draft comprises a list of technical metadata elements for digital images. Available for use from June 2002 to December 2003 and presented as a PDF file.
 
Article describing initiatives to develop unique identifiers for digital objects. Based on a seminar organised jointly by Book Industry Communication and the UK Office for Library and Information Networking. Briefly describes Digital Object Identifier (DOI), Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (SICI), Book Item and Component Identifier (BICI), and Publisher Item Identifier (PII). Also summarises results of group reports and a plenary discussion.
 
Collection of links to resources supporting cataloguing efforts, including aids and tools like a Cataloguing Terminology Glossary, standards such as MARC, and approaches to organising Internet resources using metadata like Dublin Core.
 
Describes the principles governing the Dublin Core element refinement and encoding scheme qualifiers. Also provides a summary and definitions approved by the DCMI Usage Committee.
 
Report of research undertaken by Michael Heaney at the University Library Services Directorate, Oxford University. The report refines conceptualisations of collections through an 'entity
relationship' model of collections and their catalogues in an attempt to inform current approaches to collection description. Available in PDF only.
 
Paper discussing the need for a common metadata standard, capable of supporting the diverse types of material found on the Internet. The benefits of the Dublin Core standard are described in terms of simplicity, semantic interoperability, international consensus and flexibility. Examples of projects using Dublin Core are given.
 
Provides a list of links to documents, articles and reports pertaining to the Resource Description Framework (RDF), with a special emphasis on those documents produced by the UK Office of Library and Information Networking (UKOLN).
 
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