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D-Lib December 2000 Stuart L. Weibel & Traugott Koch |
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Mission, Current Activities, and Future Directions The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has led the development of structured metadata to support resource discovery...  |
D-Lib April 2003 Dekkers & Weibel |
State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative continues to grow in participation and recognition as the predominant resource discovery metadata standard on the Internet.  |
D-Lib February 2002 Dekkers & Weibel |
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Progress Report and Workplan for 2002 The mission of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is to make it easier to find resources using the Internet through metadata standards.  |
D-Lib April 2002 Erik Duval |
Metadata Principles and Practicalities There is much confusion about how metadata should be integrated into information systems. How is it to be created or extended? Who will manage it? How can it be used and exchanged? Whence comes its authority? Can different metadata standards be used together in a given environment?  |
D-Lib January 2001 Carl Lagoze |
Keeping Dublin Core Simple Cross-Domain Discovery or Resource Description?  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2010 Hillmann et al. |
RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use The Resource Description and Access standard, due to be released this coming summer, has included since May 2007 a parallel effort to build Semantic Web enabled vocabularies.  |
D-Lib June 2006 |
Metadata Interoperability and Standardization - A Study of Methodology Part I: Achieving Interoperability at the Schema Level An analysis of the methods that have been used to achieve or improve interoperability among metadata schemas and applications, for the purposes of facilitating conversion and exchange of metadata and enabling cross-domain metadata harvesting and federated searches.  |
D-Lib December 2004 Jia Liu |
Metadata Development in China: Research and Practice Chinese researchers and practitioners have now reached the point where metadata development and use have matured and become stable throughout the country's institutions.  |
D-Lib May 2002 Rachel Heery |
A Metadata Registry for the Semantic Web The declaration of schemas in metadata registries advance the Semantic Web by providing a common approach for the discovery, understanding, and exchange of semantics, which will enable a 'cooperative' Web where machines and humans can exchange electronic content that has clear-cut meaning...  |
D-Lib August 2003 Baker & Dekkers |
Identifying Metadata Elements with URIs: The CORES Resolution The "Resolution on Metadata Element Identifiers", or CORES Resolution, is an agreement among the maintenance organisations for several major metadata standards to identify their metadata elements using Uniform Resource Identifiers. Here's a progress report on the resolution.  |
D-Lib December 2001 Christophe Blanchi |
Distributed Interoperable Metadata Registry Interoperability between digital libraries depends on effective sharing of metadata. Successful sharing of metadata requires common standards for metadata exchange...  |
D-Lib October 2000 Thomas Baker |
A Grammar of Dublin Core Dublin Core is a language. More precisely, it is a small language for making a particular class of statements about resources...  |
D-Lib December 1999 |
The Standards Fora for Online Education This paper provides an overview of work taking place in five different working groups/committees, each concerned with developing standards for the description and sharing of educational resources in an online environment...  |
D-Lib June 2006 Zeng & Chan |
Metadata Interoperability and Standardization - A Study of Methodology Part II: Achieving Interoperability at the Record and Repository Levels Information professionals must give high priority to the task of creating and maintaining the highest feasible level of interoperability among extant and new information services.  |
D-Lib April 2002 Marilyn McClelland |
Challenges for Service Providers When Importing Metadata in Digital Libraries Our experiences identify questions regarding intellectual property rights for metadata, protocols for enriched metadata, and tips for designing metadata services...  |
D-Lib November 2005 Lagoze et al. |
What Is a Digital Library Anyway? Beyond Search and Access in the NSDL We are now in the adolescence of digital libraries. Like any adolescence, there is reason for optimism and concern.  |
D-Lib April 2001 Rachel Heery |
Renardus Project Developments and the Wider Digital Library Context The innovatory drive within the development of digital library services thrives on the tension between meeting both technical and social imperatives...  |
D-Lib September 2003 |
In Brief ECDL 2003 Workshop Report: Digital Library Evaluation - Metrics, Testbeds and Processes... ECDL 2003 Workshop Report: Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS): Evolving Standards... etc.  |
D-Lib April 2006 Norman Paskin |
Identifier Interoperability: A Report on Two Recent ISO Activities There are increasing demands for metadata interoperability in both the commercial media and library sectors, and the semantic interoperability technology developed from the <indecs> model has a role to play in addressing these.  |
ONLINE September 2000 Norm Medeiros |
XML and the Resource Description Framework: The Great Web Hope The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) offer a potential means to enhanced resource discovery on the Web. But will they work?  |
D-Lib August 2006 Greenberg & Severiens |
Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories: JCDL 2006 Workshop Report How can we improve communication in the digital library /metadata tool community and advance the state-of-the-art for tools in this environ?  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2000 |
In Brief Digital Libraries as a field has experienced rapid growth in recent years, and the ACM Digital Libraries conference is one of the premiere forums where research and implementation communities converge to confer on common and emerging trends in platform development, design and evaluation, content digitization, storage, and retrieval.  |
D-Lib August 2003 |
In Brief Building a More Meaningful Web: From Traditional Knowledge Organization Systems to New Semantic Tools... Information Visualization Interfaces for Retrieval and Analysis (IVIRA) Workshop Summary... Report on the "OAI Metadata Harvesting Workshop"... etc.  |
D-Lib December 2003 Stuart A. Sutton |
Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians Priscilla Caplan's book Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians is extremely worthwhile reading -- particularly so for the librarian or student of librarianship wanting to get a solid, high-level view of the metadata landscape.  |
D-Lib June 2002 Paul Shabajee |
Primary Multimedia Objects and 'Educational Metadata' A fundamental dilemma for developers of multimedia archives.  |
D-Lib June 2001 |
Clips and Pointers Communications of the ACM Special Section on Designing and Delivering Network-Based Information Systems in Digital Libraries... Collection Development in the Internet Age... Managing Web Resources for Persistent Access... etc.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2012 Westbrook et al. |
Metadata Clean Sweep: A Digital Library Audit Project This paper discusses the pilot of an ongoing digital library metadata audit project that was collaboratively launched by library school interns and full-time staff to alleviate poor recall, poor precision and metadata inconsistencies across digital collections.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 |
Clips and Pointers Streamlining book metadata workflow... The social life of health information... Issues in science & technology librarianship... What's new in digital preservation... Google book search bibliography... etc.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 Moulaison et al. |
OpenDOAR Repositories and Metadata Practices In spring 2014, authors from the University of Missouri conducted a nation-wide survey on metadata practices among United States-based OpenDOAR repositories  |
D-Lib June 2003 Norman Paskin |
DOI (Digital Object Identifiers): A 2003 Progress Report The initial simple implementation of DOI as a persistent name linked to redirection continues to grow, with approaching ten million DOIs assigned from several hundred organisations through a number of Registration Agencies in USA, Europe, and Australasia, supporting large scale business uses.  |
D-Lib January 2002 William Y. Arms |
A Spectrum of Interoperability The Site for Science Prototype for the NSDL...  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2010 Byrne & Goddard |
The Strongest Link: Libraries and Linked Data This article will outline some of the benefits that linked data could have for libraries, will discuss some of the non-technical obstacles that we face in moving forward, and will finally offer suggestions for practical ways in which libraries can participate in the development of the semantic web.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 |
In Brief and In the News IMLS Awards Grant to Engage Libraries... Semantic Search: Magnet for the Needle in the Search Haystack... NPG expands Creative Commons Attribution license options...  |
D-Lib April 2005 |
In Brief How Do Users Search? Examining User Behavior and Testing Innovative Possibilities within the CREE Project... Sakai Educational Partners Program... New FreePint Job Service for Information Professionals... etc.  |
D-Lib June 2002 |
Clips and Pointers The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting: Protocol Version 2.0... Digital Imagery for Works of Art Final Report... Preservation Metadata and the OAIS Information Model: A Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects... etc.  |
D-Lib July 2001 |
Clips and Pointers Report to the President on Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge... Report on the NISO Workshop on Networked Digital Reference Services... National Library of Australia Electronic Information Resources Strategies and Action Plan... etc.  |
D-Lib an/Feb 2010 Koutsomitropoulos et al. |
The Use of Metadata for Educational Resources in Digital Repositories: Practices and Perspectives In this article we focus on the use of learning-object specific metadata in digital repositories, as they are primarily incarnated in the learning object metadata standard.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2010 Ternier et al. |
The Simple Publishing Interface (SPI) The Simple Publishing Interface is a new publishing protocol, developed under the auspices of the European Committee for Standardization workshop on learning technologies.  |
D-Lib January 2005 Fox, Manduca & Iverson |
Building Educational Portals atop Digital Libraries The Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC) educational portals leverage the techniques and tools of the digital library community to bring cohesion and clarity to their presentation of information.  |
D-Lib April 2004 Brian F. Lavoie |
Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity This article discusses the objectives, current status, and future activities of PREMIS, an expert working group focused on the topic of implementing preservation metadata within digital archiving systems.  |
D-Lib October 2001 |
In Brief The German Initiative of Networked Information... The Norwegian Museum Project... Report on the Inaugural International Conference of MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Teaching)... etc.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2010 Marcia Lei Zeng |
Report on the 2009 Joint CENDI/NKOS Workshop - Knowledge Organization Systems: Managing to the Future The themes include: toward a shared development environment, toward interoperability, and toward ontologies and the Semantic Web.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2011 Wolski et al. |
Building an Institutional Discovery Layer for Virtual Research Collections This paper describes a nationally funded Australian university initiative to build a research repository which feeds data into both a national research data service and university library discovery tools. Challenges and benefits are discussed.  |
D-Lib September 2000 |
Clips and Pointers LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress... Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging... The Digital Library Toolkit... Handbook for Digital Projects... Guide to Good Practice Creating Digital Performance Resources... Successes and Failures of Digital Libraries... Version 32, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography... Documents in Information Science... MagPortal... Deadline Reminders... etc.  |
D-Lib February 2005 Hughes & Kamat |
A Metadata Search Engine for Digital Language Archives Describes the design and implementation of a full-featured metadata search engine within the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), a consortium of linguistic data archives.  |
D-Lib January 2000 Gail M. Hodge |
Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach Digital information is fragile in ways that differ from traditional technologies, such as paper or microfilm. It is more easily corrupted or altered without recognition...  |
D-Lib January 2002 |
Clips and Pointers IMLS Issues Two Digital Library Forum Reports for Comment... Portals to the World, Library of Congress... Legal Deposit, Preserving Access to Digital Information... etc.  |
D-Lib May 2006 |
Digital Library Federation (DLF) Aquifer Project Named to symbolize the pooling of content into a community resource, and the piping or siphoning of content to meet specific needs, the collaboration amongst a subset of DLF member libraries has produced standards, reports, and prototypes over the past year.  |
D-Lib December 2001 |
Clips & Pointers The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections... Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits... Hybrid Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment... Resources for Professional Education & Grant Writing... etc.  |
D-Lib September 2006 Goldsmith & Knudson |
Repository Librarian and the Next Crusade: The Search for a Common Standard for Digital Repository Metadata While metadata standards abound, and acceptance and use of these standards is equally widespread, agreement on a common standard is much harder to find.  |