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Information Today September 12, 2013 |
Public Free to Comment on NISO Draft A revised draft of "Knowledge Bases and Related Tools" is open for public comment until Oct. 4, 2013. |
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. |
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 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 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 February 17, 2015 |
DPLA Updates KriKri Metadata Aggregation Engine The Digital Public Library of America launched KriKri version 0.1.3, which is used as part of the DPLA's metadata ingestion system. |
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 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. |
Information Today September 6, 2012 |
OCLC Member Libraries Can Contribute Metadata to Europeana.eu Portal OCLC member institutions will be able to contribute metadata derived from OCLC's WorldCat database to the Europeana.eu portal in a manner that is consistent with OCLC's WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative. |
Information Today October 24, 2013 |
NISO's Open Discovery Initiative Releases Recommended Practice Draft This recommended practice from the National Information Standards Organization provides guidelines for content providers and discovery service creators on how to address issues that arise in the use of indexed search as part of library discovery services. |
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... |
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. |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 David Shotton |
The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles -- a Framework for Article Evaluation I propose five factors -- peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata -- as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles. |
InternetNews August 18, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
GPL 3 Lawyer Has His Regrets Free Software Foundation counsel and co-author of the GPL 3 draft, Eben Moglen, explained the current status of the license draft discussion as well as some of the more contentious issues surrounding it. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Knoth & Zdrahal |
CORE: Three Access Levels to Underpin Open Access We present the CORE (COnnecting REpositories) system, a large-scale Open Access aggregation, outlining its existing functionality and discussing the future technical development. |
Information Today May 6, 2013 Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Theses & Dissertations: Launch of a New OA Discovery Tool As the body of open access literature continues to grow, figuring out how to access OA-specific material has remained a challenge for researchers. |
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 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 September 2003 Gadd et al. |
The Intellectual Property Rights Issues Facing Self-archiving: Key Findings of the RoMEO Project The RoMEO project aimed to develop simple rights metadata by which academics could protect their research papers in an open-access environment and also to develop a means by which OAI Data and Service Providers could protect their open-access metadata. |
Information Today June 18, 2012 Christine Connors |
OpenMetadata.org Community Site Launched Though the site is still in its initial deployment, the goal is for it to become a go-to resource for discovery, access, and tools for using statistical metadata. |
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? |
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. |
D-Lib November 2002 Jinfang Niu |
A Metadata Framework Developed at the Tsinghua University Library to Aid in the Preservation of Digital Resources |
Information Today January 12, 2016 |
OCLC Partners With New Publishers for WorldCat Discovery Services OCLC has agreements with more than 200 publishers and information providers to receive their metadata. |
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 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. |
Information Today June 6, 2013 |
CrossRef Launches FundRef to Track Scholarly Funding Publisher members can now add funders' names and grant or award numbers to the metadata they submit to CrossRef. |
InternetNews August 23, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Scrubbing Content Metadata Updated Workshare software removes hidden data from Word documents and e-mail, promising an end to embarrassing leaks of private information. |
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. |
Information Today December 15, 2011 |
Springer API Challenge 2.0 Now Open Springer announced the Springer API (Application Programming Interface) Challenge 2.0, its second competition for original, noncommercial applications using its freely available metadata and content APIs. |
Information Today October 7, 2014 |
OCLC Produces White Paper on Econtent in Libraries It identifies data quality issues in the content supply chain and gives recommendations for improved econtent usage, discovery, and access in libraries. |
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. |
Information Today August 16, 2010 |
OCLC Announced Enhanced WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway Repository managers from libraries, museums, archives and other research institutions can now contribute metadata records for digital materials to WorldCat. |
D-Lib January 2001 Stephen Mooney |
Interoperability Digital Rights Management and the Emerging E-Book Environment... |
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. |
InternetNews March 27, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Better Late Than Never For GPL 3 Draft 3 Months late, the Free Software Foundation updates timetable and blames Microsoft and Novell for the delay. |
D-Lib January 2002 William Y. Arms |
A Spectrum of Interoperability The Site for Science Prototype for the NSDL... |
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. |
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 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 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 October 2005 Custard & Sumner |
Using Machine Learning to Support Quality Judgments Development of a computation model capable of detecting quality variations in digital library resources. |
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 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 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 February 16, 2012 |
China/Asia on Demand Metadata Accessible via EBSCO Discovery Service The agreement allows for metadata from this valuable collection of research literature from Asia to be added to the Base Index of EDS. T |
Information Today October 8, 2015 |
Ringgold Adds New Classification System to Its Identify Database The company consulted with its customers about how they classify their records, and it developed a schema for nine new classifications for organizations that will enhance the existing ones. |
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 2006 |
To the Editor (January 2006) Letters in response to the articles: Public Domain Art in an Age of Easier Mechanical Reproducibility and AIHT: Conceptual Issues from Practical Tests. |