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Information Today April 2, 2015 |
Internet Archive and DPLA Form Partnership The Internet Archive and the Digital Public Library of America joined forces for a joint program that will enhance collection sharing from the Internet Archive in the DPLA. |
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 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 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. |
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 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 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... |
Information Today February 9, 2009 |
New Report From DLF Evaluates Metadata Tools "Future Directions in Metadata Remediation for Metadata Aggregators," is a report that identifies and evaluates tools that can be used to normalize and enhance metadata. |
Information Today April 26, 2012 |
Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available The Harvard Library announced it would make more than 12 million catalog records from Harvard's 73 libraries publicly available. |
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. |
Information Today March 17, 2015 |
DPLA Moves Forward With Public Library Partnership Project The Minnesota Digital Library received a grant -- as one of the Digital Public Library of America's four service hubs to get an award -- to work on the Public Library Partnership Project |
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 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial We have a full issue this month, covering work flows, authority files, access restrictions, and the needs of researchers, plus a provocative position paper. |
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 2004 Coleman, Bracke & Karthik |
Integration of Non-OAI Resources for Federated Searching in DLIST, an Eprints Repository Highlights of some of the limitations of proposed solutions to distributed archives as well as the added benefits for digital repository development that non-OAI (Open Archives Initiative) integration offers. |
Information Today October 19, 2009 |
OCLC Initiates Metadata Services for Publishers This is a new service that takes publishers' ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to the publishers for use in their systems. |
Information Today December 17, 2013 |
SirsiDynix eResource Central Manages 3M Cloud Library Titles More than 200,000 titles and hundreds of publishers from 3M are now available to eRC library customers in the U.S. |
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 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 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. |
InternetNews February 10, 2004 Clint Boulton |
W3C Wraps Up Semantic Web Standards After years in research and development, the standards consortium issues two crucial standards from the Semantic Web movement, which allows for more intuitive computing. |
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. |
Information Today April 21, 2015 |
DPLA Celebrates 2-Year Anniversary The Digital Public Library of America made several announcements during DPLAfest to spread awareness of its new partnerships, initiatives, and milestones. |
Information Today June 10, 2013 |
NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on OpenURLs The report provides instructions on how to identify problems with OpenURLs and help content providers ensure that their metadata is correct and complete. |
Information Today October 3, 2011 |
DPLA 'Beta Sprint' Review Panel Announces Results The Digital Public Library of America Steering Committee invited the creators of nine promising projects for the DPLA Beta Sprint, an open call for code and concepts defining how the DPLA might operate, to present at the public plenary meeting taking place on Oct. 21, 2011 in Washington, D.C. |
D-Lib May 2006 Arko et al. |
Using Annotations to Add Value to a Digital Library for Education Although the value of annotations in digital libraries has long been recognized from a theoretical perspective, annotations are just beginning to demonstrate their practical value to real-world users. In this article, we describe a fully implemented annotation system within the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE). |
Information Today September 10, 2013 |
HathiTrust Records Go Live on the DPLA HathiTrust, which preserves freely available resources from universities and libraries, partnered with the Digital Public Library of America in June and will continue to host the content now searchable through the DPLA. |
Information Today October 6, 2011 |
OCLC Report Examines Use of Social Metadata at Libraries, Archives, and Museums The report seeks to provide an overview of social metadata to enable cultural heritage institutions to better use their users' expertise and enrich their descriptive metadata to improve their users' experiences. |
D-Lib April 2003 Searle & Thompson |
Preservation Metadata Pragmatic first steps at the National Library of New Zealand |
Fast Company April 2013 Tara Moore |
The Digital Public Library Of America Launches, But Doesn't Google Already Do That? The Digital Public Library of America launches this month, aiming to put America's entire literary history online. |
Information Today May 30, 2013 |
OCLC Working With Libraries to Test Record Management Functionality OCLC is working with 13 libraries on three continents to beta test OCLC WorldShare Metadata Record Manager, which offers new record management functionality to enhance a library's ability to catalog its collections. |
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 March 2004 Lin Fang |
A Developing Search Service: Heterogeneous Resources Integration and Retrieval System This article describes two approaches for searching heterogeneous resources, which are explained as they are used in two corresponding existing systems--RIRS (Resource Integration Retrieval System) and HRUSP (Heterogeneous Resource Union Search Platform). On analyzing the existing systems, a possible framework--the MUSP (Multimetadata-Based Union Search Platform) is presented. |
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 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. |
Information Today July 23, 2012 |
NPG Expands Linked Data Platform As part of its wider commitment to open science, Nature Publishing Group's Linked Data Platform now hosts more than 270 million Resource Description Framework statements. |
Information Today November 5, 2013 |
DPLA Launches Bookshelf Feature Browsing ebooks, serials, and journals on the DPLA (Digital Public Library of America) website recently became easier with the launch of the open source DPLA Bookshelf, a collection of the DPLA's more than 1 million online books and periodicals. |
D-Lib March 2001 |
To the Editor Comment on Keeping Dublin Core Simple: Cross-Domain Discovery or Resource Description? |
D-Lib November 2005 Kastens et al. |
Questions & Challenges Arising in Building the Collection of a Digital Library for Education Tentative answers to some of the major questions and challenges that DLESE has faced while building the digital collections as well as issues that the group is still tackling. |
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 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 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? |
InternetNews August 20, 2010 |
Ruby 1.9.2 Casts Long Shadow on Related Projects With the long-awaited release of Ruby 1.9.2, billed as the first "production-ready 1.9 implementation," the Ruby project takes a big step forward. |
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. |
Information Today November 1, 2012 |
Concrete Steps Toward a Digital Public Library of America The DPLA plans to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all via a large-scale digital library. |
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. |
Information Today December 1, 2011 |
Nielsen Research Finds Metadata Helps Increase Book Sales One interesting finding was the 42% sales increase that enhanced metadata has on growing sales of some backlist titles that previously had no enhanced metadata. |
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. |
Information Today January 9, 2014 |
NISO Recommended Practice Open for Public Comment A draft of "Open Access Metadata and Indicators" from the Open Access Metadata and Indicators Working Group is open for public comment until Feb. 4, 2014. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2014 Neatrour et al. |
The SIMP Tool: Facilitating Digital Library, Metadata, and Preservation Workflow at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library This article presents a case study of the Submission Information Metadata Packaging tool developed at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library. |