025.344 An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues
Report of research undertaken by Michael Heaney at the University
Library Services Directorate, Oxford University. The report refines
conceptualisations of collections through an ‘entity-relationship’ model
of collections and their catalogues in an attempt to inform current
approaches to collection description. Available in PDF only.
025.344 ANSI/NISO Z39.85 – 2001 Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
The Dublin Core Metadata standard was developed to promote better
discovery standards for electronic resources and to make it easier to
find relevant information on the World Wide Web. It is a 15-element set
of descriptors in three groups which roughly indicate the class or scope
of information stored in them. Firstly, content: title, subject,
description, type, source, relation and coverage; secondly, intellectual
property: creator, publisher, contributor and rights; and finally,
instantiation: date, format, identifier and language.
025.344 Data Dictionary for Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images: Draft
Standard for Trial Use
Prepared by the National Information Standards Organisation (NISO)
and Association for Information and Image Management, this draft
comprises a list of technical metadata elements for digital images.
Available for use from June 2002 to December 2003 and presented as a PDF
file.
025.344 DC-dot Dublin Core Metadata Editor
This service will retrieve a web page and automatically generate
Dublin Core HTML META tags suitable for embedding in the HEAD section of
the page. The generated tags can be edited using the form provided.
Optional, context sensitive, help is available while editing.
025.344 Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources
Links to documents archived by IFLA and external resources relating
to metadata. Metadata is data about data. The term refers to any data
used to aid the identification, description and location of networked
electronic resources.
025.344 Dublin Core and Warwick Framework: A Review of the Literature, March 1995 –
September 1997
Identifies and explores the dynamics of the literature associated
with the Dublin Core Workshop Series. Concludes that a shift from a
descriptive emphasis to a more empirical form of literature is about to
take place and identifies future research questions in the areas of
satisfying searcher needs, the impact of surrogate descriptions on
search engine performance, and the effectiveness of surrogate
descriptions in authenticating Internet resources.
025.344 Dublin Core Element Set Version 1.1
Reference description of version 1.1 of the Dublin Core Metadata
Element Set, summarising updated definitions which use a formal standard
to improve the consistency with other metadata communities.
025.344 Dublin Core Metadata
The Dublin Core is a 15-element metadata set intended to facilitate
discovery of electronic resources. Originally conceived for
author-generated description of Web resources, it has also attracted the
attention of formal resource description communities such as museums and
libraries.
025.344 Dublin Core Metadata Banners and Badges
Selection of promotional material for Dublin Core metadata, freely
available as JPEG files for use on personal Internet pages. Icons used
must link directly to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Web site.
025.344 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Dublin Core Qualifiers
Describes the principles governing the Dublin Core element
refinement and encoding scheme qualifiers. Also provides a summary and
definitions approved by the DCMI Usage Committee.
025.344 Evolving Metadata Architecture for the World Wide Web: Bringing Together the
Semantics, Structure and Syntax of Resource Description
Paper discussing the need for a common metadata standard, capable of
supporting the diverse types of material found on the Internet. The
benefits of the Dublin Core standard are described in terms of
simplicity, semantic interoperability, international consensus and
flexibility. Examples of projects using Dublin Core are given.
025.3 Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
Report published by the International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Delivers precisely stated
parameters and a conceptual model concerning what bibliographic records
aim to provide information about and what is required within those
records to achieve user satisfaction.
025.3 Guide to Best Practice: Dublin Core
Article focusing on the usability, simplicity, and technical
feasibility of Dublin Core within the cultural heritage community.
Covers the fifteen Dublin Core elements and provides examples from the
art, cultural history, and natural history communities. Available in
HTML, PDF, and Word 98 format.
025.344 IMS Global Learning Consortium
The IMS Global Learning Consortium develops and promotes the
adoption of open technical specifications for interoperable learning
technology.
025.3 Issues in Crosswalking Content Metadata Standards
In order to minimise the amount of time needed to create and
maintain metadata, and to maximise its usefulness to the widest
community of users, there is a need for the metadata created and
maintained in one standard to be accessible via related content metadata
standards. This article purports that harmonisation is the process of
ensuring consistency in the specification of related content metadata
standards, while a fully specified crosswalk provides the ability to
create and maintain one set of metadata, and to map that metadata to any
number of related content metadata standards. The article presents the
key issues involved in crosswalk development and identifies those areas
in which harmonisation can play a role.
025.344 Languages for Dublin Core
Article which reviews three years development of Dublin Core
metadata, and illustrates its use in dozens of countries and different
languages around the world.
025.3 Library of Congress Authorities
Pilot providing access to LC authority data for subject, name, and
title combinations. Authority records can be downloaded in MARC format
for use in local library systems.
025.344 Metadata and Resource Description
Set of links to items about metadata, defined as ‘machine
understandable information for the Web’. Includes details of related
news, events, publications, project groups, discussion forums and
recommended reading.
025.3 Metadata Demystified
Provides an overview of the evolving metadata conventions in
publishing and related initiatives to standardise how metadata is
structured and disseminated. Covers topics such as XML, what metadata
means to publishers and readers, and book and journal oriented metadata
practices. Presented as a PDF document.
025.3 Metadata Made Simpler
This introduction to metadata helps to explain what metadata is all
about, why it is needed, and the advantages it offers. Dublin Core,
GILS, metadata creation, and mapping are covered, and a list of Web
resources and a glossary are included. Available in PDF only.
025.32 Metadata Resources – Resource Description Framework
Provides a list of links to documents, articles and reports
pertaining to the Resource Description Framework (RDF), with a special
emphasis on those documents produced by the UK Office of Library and
Information Networking (UKOLN).
025.344 Metadata Resources: Dublin Core
Resources about the Dublin Metadata Core Element Set, a simple
information resource description which also aims to provide a basis for
semantic interoperability between other, probably more complicated,
formats and is also intended to provide the basis for resource embedded
description, initially with HTML documents.
025.3 MetaMap
Information on metadata standards, sets, and initiatives (MSSIs)
presented in the form of a subway map. Provides a definition of each
‘station’, shows relationships between them, and offers links to
official web pages. The required SVG Viewer plug-in is freely available
for download.
025.344 MetaWeb: Metadata Tools and Services Project
Project which aims to develop indexing services, user tools, and
metadata element sets in order to promote the use and exploitation of
metadata on the Internet.
025.344 METS: Metadata encoding and transmission standard
The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive,
administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a
digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World
Wide Web Consortium. Includes news, documents, and sample schemas.
025.344 OCLC CORC
CORC is a research project exploring the cooperative creation and
sharing of metadata by libraries. It is designed to help both libraries
and OCLC to move more quickly in coping with the huge amount of material
available on the Web and to provide access to this material that can be
integrated with access to their current resources. Features of CORC
include authority control, RDF / XML import/export, integration of DC
and MARC in single system, flexible harvesting of resources, Unicode
support, assisted classification and subject heading assignment,
automatic keyword extraction, automated data extraction, link
maintenance and reference access – Z39.50, browsing interfaces.
025.32 RSLP Collection Description Schema
Provides the widely used collection description schema as proposed
by the UK Office of Library and Information Networking and derived from
Michael Heaney’s related report, ‘An Analytical Model of Collections and
their Catalogues’. Provides a definitive set of metadata attributes to
ensure the effective description of library, archive and museum
collections.
025.344 State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Details of the sixth Dublin Core Metadata Workshop (1998) which
aimed to highlight outstanding issues and resolve them using formal
working groups. Provides information on issues which emerged such as
standardisation and the role of RDF, the relationship between Dublin
Core and other forms of metadata, and related projects.
