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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 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
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. |
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
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
September 2000
Andy Powell, Michael Heaney & Lorcan Dempsey |
RSLP Collection Description A description of an effort to develop a way to describe collections in a consistent and machine readable way that is applicable to physical and digital collections of all kinds, including library, art and museum materials. |
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
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
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. |
New Architect
June 2002
Uche Ogbuji |
The Languages of the Semantic Web The Semantic Web is a vision of a next-generation network that lets content publishers provide notations designed to express a crude "meaning" of the page, instead of merely dumping arbitrary text onto a page... |
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
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
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
Nov/Dec 2011
Powell et al. |
A Semantic Registry for Digital Library Collections and Services This paper highlights some of the developments and challenges in developing registries. We then discuss how the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Research Library used current standards in an ad-hoc ontology to semantically describe services and collections. |
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 2009
Lourdi et al. |
Semantic Integration of Collection Description: Combining CIDOC/CRM and Dublin Core Collections Application Profile The research reveals the complexity of mapping metadata schemas to ontologies and resolves particular difficulties by presenting the crosswalk between Dublin Core Collections Application Profile and CIDOC/CRM. |
D-Lib
December 2004
Godby, Ypung & Childress |
A Repository of Metadata Crosswalks In promoting standards for interoperability, one outcome is a repository that collects publicly accessible metadata into a repository that can be harvested using standard XML protocols and provides tools for creating sample services, such as customizable views of the data. |
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
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
Sep/Oct 2014
Latif et al. |
Exposing Data From an Open Access Repository for Economics As Linked Data This article describes an approach to publishing metadata on the Semantic Web from an Open Access repository to foster interoperability with distributed data. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2015
Gianmaria Silvello |
A Methodology for Citing Linked Open Data Subsets In this paper we discuss the problem of data citation with a specific focus on Linked Open Data. |
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
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
August 2005
Stuart L. Weibel |
Border Crossings: Reflections on a Decade of Metadata Consensus Building A personal reflection on some of the achievements and lessons of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative management team. |
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
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
Mar/Apr 2015
Ok Nam Park |
Development of Linked Data for Archives in Korea The study reported on here converts records of National Archives of Korea to linked data, and connects archives data to library and museum data in order to show how linked data are actually used in MLA (Museum-Library-Archives). |
D-Lib
February 2004
Veen & Oldroyd |
Search and Retrieval in The European Library: A New Approach The objective of the European Library (TEL) project [TEL] was to set up a co-operative framework and specify a system for integrated access to the major collections of the European national libraries. This has been achieved by successfully applying a new approach for search and retrieval via URLs (SRU) [ZiNG] combined with a new metadata paradigm. |
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 2009
van Veen et al. |
Sharing Functionality on the Web: A Proposed Services Infrastructure for The European Library A Proposed Services Infrastructure for The European Library |
D-Lib
December 2004 |
The Role of RSS in Science Publishing: Syndication and Annotation on the Web RSS is increasingly being deployed within science publishing, and the reasons for this are manifold. RSS presents a very simple XML structure for packaging news titles and links, and delivering them down to user desktops and handhelds. |
D-Lib
November 2003
Bekaert et al. |
Using MPEG-21 DIDL to Represent Complex Digital Objects in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Digital Library This article gives a brief insight into the MPEG-21 standardization effort and indicates its potential relevance to the Digital Library community. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2011
Starr & Gastl |
isCitedBy: A Metadata Scheme for DataCite The knitting together of published research articles and the research data that substantiate their findings is of increasing importance as more disciplines take advantage of data-driven approaches to knowledge acquisition. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2013
Nakasone & Sheffield |
Descriptive Metadata for Field Books: Methods and Practices of the Field Book Project We explain the descriptive metadata used for field books, which share characteristics of museum, archives, and library objects, and explain why schemas were chosen, and how they are used. |
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
November 2002
Jinfang Niu |
A Metadata Framework Developed at the Tsinghua University Library to Aid in the Preservation of Digital Resources |
D-Lib
June 2002
Paul Shabajee |
Primary Multimedia Objects and 'Educational Metadata' A fundamental dilemma for developers of multimedia archives. |
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
March 2001 |
To the Editor Comment on Keeping Dublin Core Simple: Cross-Domain Discovery or Resource Description? |
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
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
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
January 2000
Adam Chandler, Dan Foley & Alaaeldin M. Hafez |
Mapping and Converting Essential Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Metadata into MARC21 and Dublin Core |
