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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
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
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 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
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
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
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
January 2001
Carl Lagoze |
Keeping Dublin Core Simple Cross-Domain Discovery or Resource Description? |
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
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
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
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
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
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. |
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
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. |
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
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
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
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 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
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
January 2003
Dobratz & Matthaei |
Open Archives Activities and Experiences in Europe: An Overview The Open Archives Forum is not another OAI implementation project. It is a clustering activity that targets existing open archives communities, as well as new communities, like IST projects or national initiatives planning or initiating open archives. |
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
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
February 2000
Herbert Van de Sompel & Carl Lagoze |
The Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives Initiative The Open Archives initiative promotes and encourages the development of author self-archiving solutions through the development of technical mechanisms and organizational structures to support interoperability... |
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
February 2001 |
In Brief Leading Edge Metadata Workshop In Melbourne... Towards a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK... New Listserv for the Distributed National Electronic Resource... An International Training Programme: STIMULATE... The 21st-Century Librarian Award... 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
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 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
April 2001
John S. Erickson |
Information Objects and Rights Management: A Mediation-based Approach to DRM Interoperability Although the central focus of this article is to confront current information-opaque approaches to digital rights management, I hope the principles presented here are broader in scope and will suggest solutions elsewhere... |
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
June 2001
Linda L. Hill |
A Content Standard for Computational Models There are no generally accepted procedures for describing computational models in ways that support cataloging, search, selection, and use. In this paper, we propose a content standard for describing computational models... |
