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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 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
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
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
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
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 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
May/Jun 2015
Papadakis et al. |
Linked Data URIs and Libraries: The Story So Far This paper focuses on linked data URIs that refer to authority data. We attempt to identify the specific MARC fields that are capable of hosting linked data information. |
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
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
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
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
January 2003
Norman Paskin |
On Making and Identifying a "Copy" The purpose of this article is to explore some of the conceptual issues of "making a copy" digitally and in an automated DRM environment which need to be clarified to enable rights expression languages and other DRM tools to deal with the concept of copying. |
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
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
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
January 2004
Giuseppe Vitiello |
Identifiers and Identification Systems An informational look at policies and roles from a library perspective |
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
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
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
January 2001
Carl Lagoze |
Keeping Dublin Core Simple Cross-Domain Discovery or Resource Description? |
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
April 2007
Altman & King |
A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data There is currently no universal standards exist for citing quantitative data. |
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 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
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
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
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
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. |
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
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. |
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
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
February 2007
Gordon Dunsire |
Distinguishing Content from Carrier: The RDA/ONIX Framework for Resource Categorization The RDA/ONIX framework successfully attains its aims of supporting the needs of libraries and the publishing industry for categorising resources by their content and carrier, and of facilitating interoperability between the metadata produced by those communities. |
D-Lib
February 2000
Atkins, Lyons, Ratner, Risher, et al. |
Reference Linking with DOIs: A Case Study Digital Object Identifiers enable readers to find content on the Internet with a persistent and reliable identifier. Hyperlinking between article bibliographies and the cited articles is a natural application of DOIs. |
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
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
June 2001
Renato Iannella |
Digital Rights Management Architectures Digital Rights Management poses one of the greatest challenges for content communities in this digital age... |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2011
Shaon & Woolf |
Long-term Preservation for Spatial Data Infrastructures: a Metadata Framework and Geo-portal Implementation The work presented in this article investigates the requirements for ensuring sustained access to environmental data from the perspective of a preservation-aware Spatial Data Infrastructure. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2015
Van de Sompel & Nelson |
Reminiscing About 15 Years of Interoperability Efforts Over the past fifteen years, our perspective on tackling information interoperability problems for web-based scholarship has evolved significantly. |
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
Jul/Aug 2012
Bertin & Atanassova |
Semantic Enrichment of Scientific Publications and Metadata Our aim is to bring new value to scientific publications by automatic extraction and semantic analysis. |
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
February 2006 |
ADL-R: The First Instance of a CORDRA Registry The goal of the CORDRA project is to create a global infrastructure for the federation of content repositories. |
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
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
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
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
June 2002
Paul Shabajee |
Primary Multimedia Objects and 'Educational Metadata' A fundamental dilemma for developers of multimedia archives. |
