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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
August 2008
Rebecca S. Guenther |
Battle of the Buzzwords: Flexibility vs. Interoperability When Implementing PREMIS in METS The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata 1 specifies the information that a repository needs to maintain for the long-term preservation of digital objects. |
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
Sep/Oct 2010
Sally Vermaaten |
A Checklist and a Case for Documenting PREMIS-METS Decisions in a METS Profile Despite the benefits of shared practices, there has been little convergence on best practices for a widely used metadata strategy, PREMIS in METS. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2008
Dappert & Enders |
Using METS, PREMIS and MODS for Archiving eJournals As institutions turn towards developing archival digital repositories, many decisions on the use of metadata have to be made. |
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
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
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
Mar/Apr 2008
Pearce et al. |
The Australian METS Profile - A Journey about Metadata Steps toward a generic Australian METS profile that can be used across multiple domains and usage scenarios. |
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
Jul/Aug 2014
Gregory & Williams |
On Being a Hub: Some Details behind Providing Metadata for the Digital Public Library of America This article describes the technological side of being a service hub for the DPLA, from choosing metadata requirements and reviewing software, to the workflow used each month. |
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
November 2002
Jinfang Niu |
A Metadata Framework Developed at the Tsinghua University Library to Aid in the Preservation of Digital Resources |
D-Lib
December 2004
Herbert Van de Sompel et al. |
Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH Framework Recently, use cases have emerged that reveal a more liberal interpretation of what constitutes metadata in the OAI-PMH. The scope of descriptive metadata can be expanded to be more than just DC, MARC and similar bibliographic formats. |
D-Lib
December 2008
Priscilla Caplan |
Repository to Repository Transfer of Enriched Archival Information Packages Responsibility for digital preservation must be distributed among many heterogeneous, geographically dispersed repositories. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2010
Powell et al. |
Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content Many digital libraries have not made the transition to semantic digital libraries, and often with good reason. |
D-Lib
April 2003
Staples et al. |
The Fedora Project An Open-source Digital Object Repository Management System |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007
Saidis & Delis |
Type-consistent Digital Objects This article provides an overview of the Digital Object Prototype framework and highlights its type-conformance capabilities and shows how heterogeneous digital material can be treated in a uniform manner without resorting to custom developments. |
D-Lib
May 2006
Justin Littman |
A Technical Approach and Distributed Model for Validation of Digital Objects This article describes the current technical approach for digital object validation used by the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the digitization of historical newspapers. |
D-Lib
September 2003 |
Generation of XML Records across Multiple Metadata Standards Because the native metadata for the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse collections follow different metadata standards and the metadata to be harvested via the NSDL OAI repository follows the Dublin Core metadata standard, ENC needed to develop crosswalks between these three standard metadata schemas. |
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. |
D-Lib
October 2006 |
DLF-Aquifer Asset Actions Experiment: Demonstrating Value of Actionable URLs A report on a prototyping and demonstration experiment carried out by the DLF Aquifer Technology/Architecture Working Group. |
D-Lib
January 2001
Carl Lagoze |
Keeping Dublin Core Simple Cross-Domain Discovery or Resource Description? |
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
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
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
February 2008 |
Interoperability for Searching Learning Object Repositories: The ProLearn Query Language A crucial problem faced by the learning community is how to produce and deliver quality content for online learning experiences. |
D-Lib
August 2003
Van de Sompel et al. |
Using the OAI-PMH... Differently The Open Archives Initiative's Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) was created to facilitate discovery of distributed resources. This article describes innovative applications of the OAI-PMH that researchers have introduced in recent projects. |
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
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
June 2008
Brian F. Lavoie |
PREMIS With a Fresh Coat of Paint: Highlights from the Revision of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata was the first comprehensive specification for preservation metadata produced from an international, cross-domain consensus-building process. |
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
January 2000
Adam Chandler, Dan Foley & Alaaeldin M. Hafez |
Mapping and Converting Essential Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Metadata into MARC21 and Dublin Core |
D-Lib
September 2004
Roxanne Missingham |
Reengineering a National Resource Discovery Service: MODS Down Under The reengineering of Kinetica is critical in supporting the Library's strategic goal of breaking down barriers to access to library collections and online resources. |
D-Lib
February 2005 |
The eXtensible Past: The Relevance of the XML Data Format for Access to Historical Datasets and a Strategy for Digital Preservation Reports on investigations carried out by the Netherlands Historical Data Archive into the relevance of the XML data format and the "Open Archives" paradigm on the long-term preservation and dissemination of historical datasets. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2016
Nash & Wheeler |
Desktop Batch Import Workflow for Ingesting Heterogeneous Collections: A Case Study with DSpace 5 We describe a lightweight and easily adopted Python workflow for packaging heterogeneous collections in Simple Archive Format for batch ingest into DSpace. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2010
Massart et al. |
Taming the Metadata Beast: ILOX Information for Learning Object eXchange, is developed as part of the IMS Learning Object Discovery & Exchange specification specification that aims to facilitate the discovery and retrieval of learning objects stored across more than one collection. |
D-Lib
January 2002
William Y. Arms |
A Spectrum of Interoperability The Site for Science Prototype for the NSDL... |
D-Lib
March 2005
Theo van Veen |
Renewing the Information Infrastructure of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) is engaged in a major renewal of its information infrastructure. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Rehak, Nicholas & Ward |
Service-Oriented Models for Educational Resource Federations This article details a service-oriented model for a scalable infrastructure that supports resource federations for educational content, publishing, search, and metadata registries. |
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
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
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
December 2005
DiLauro et al. |
The Archive Ingest and Handling Test: The Johns Hopkins University Report The Digital Knowledge Center used the AIHT to explore and evaluate content repositories as platforms for digital preservation. |
D-Lib
June 2001
John S. Erickson |
A Digital Object Approach to Interoperable Rights Management Fine-grained policy enforcement enabled by a digital object infrastructure... |
D-Lib
April 2003
Searle & Thompson |
Preservation Metadata Pragmatic first steps at the National Library of New Zealand |
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
Nancy Hoebelheinrich |
METS Implementation Meeting: JCDL 2006 Workshop Report The first METS Implementation Meeting was held on June 15, 2006, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, as a post-meeting workshop in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2006. |
D-Lib
March 2005
Hyatt & Young |
OCLC Research Publications Repository Conducting research on behalf of the library community has, for 27 years, been part of the mission of OCLC, and we believe that if research is worth doing, it's worth telling people about. |
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. |
