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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Sep/Oct 2014 Jettka & Stein |
The HZSK Repository: Implementation, Features, and Use Cases of a Repository for Spoken Language Corpora This article describes the process of the conception and implementation of a digital repository which is based on the software framework Fedora, Islandora, and Drupal. |
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 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 January 2001 Carl Lagoze |
Keeping Dublin Core Simple Cross-Domain Discovery or Resource Description? |
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. |
D-Lib April 2003 Searle & Thompson |
Preservation Metadata Pragmatic first steps at the National Library of New Zealand |
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 Jan/Feb 2014 Beth Plale |
Synthesis of Working Group and Interest Group Activity One Year into the Research Data Alliance RDA has 26 Working Groups and Interest Groups whose activities are focused on overcoming barriers to successful research data sharing, publishing, referencing and archiving, and on developing the infrastructure necessary to support those tasks. |
D-Lib June 2002 Paul Shabajee |
Primary Multimedia Objects and 'Educational Metadata' A fundamental dilemma for developers of multimedia archives. |
D-Lib April 2003 O'Neill et al. |
Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web: 1998-2002 The swiftness of the World Wide Web's ascension from obscure experiment to cultural icon has been truly remarkable. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Jan/Feb 2014 Berman et al. |
Building Global Infrastructure for Data Sharing and Exchange Through the Research Data Alliance RDA came about as data communities and international agencies sought to accelerate research innovation and the development of enabling data infrastructure at a time of unprecedented growth of digital research data |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2013 Robert B. Allen |
Model-Oriented Information Organization: Part 1, The Entity-Event Fabric With rapidly growing interconnected collections of cultural materials, we need new approaches to information organization. We propose that schematic models which describe the content of documents rather than descriptions about the documents are the key. |
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... |
D-Lib November 2005 Baratolo et al. |
NSF / NSDL Workshop on Scientific Markup Languages Report of the proceedings from the National Science Foundation and National Science Digital Library workshop to assess and document scientific disciplines' work and future of markup languages (ML) in the context of digital libraries. |
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 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 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 November 2000 Michael Seadle |
Spoken Words, Unspoken Meanings A DLI2 Project Ethnography... |
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 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 Jan/Feb 2014 Broeder & Lannom |
Data Type Registries: A Research Data Alliance Working Group Automated processing of large amounts of scientific data, especially across domains, requires that the data can be selected and parsed without human intervention. Precise characterization of that data is needed. |
D-Lib May 2002 William G. LeFurgy |
Levels of Service for Digital Repositories This article outlines conditions that govern the persistence of digital materials and suggests a model for future levels of service for digital repositories... |
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 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 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 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 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 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 Jan/Feb 2011 Michener et al. |
DataONE: Data Observation Network for Earth -- Preserving Data and Enabling Innovation in the Biological and Environmental Sciences DataONE is being designed and built to provide a foundation for innovative environmental research that addresses questions of relevance to science and society. |
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 January 2000 Gail M. Hodge |
Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach Digital information is fragile in ways that differ from traditional technologies, such as paper or microfilm. It is more easily corrupted or altered without recognition... |