Overview of content related to 'metadata'
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Metadata can be defined literally as "data about data," but the term is normally understood to mean structured data about digital (and non-digital) resources that can be used to help support a wide range of operations. These might include, for example, resource description and discovery, the management of information resources (including rights management) and their long-term preservation. In the context of digital resources, there exists a wide variety of metadata formats. Viewed on a continuum of increasing complexity, these range from the basic records used by robot-based Internet search services, through relatively simple formats like the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) and the more detailed Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) header and MARC formats, to highly specific formats like the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata, the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Codebook. (Excerpt from this source)
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Clifford Lynch in Interview |
Clifford Lynch, the Executive Director of CNI, was interviewed by John Kirriemuir at the Metadata: What Is It? workshop on 18 June 1997. Clifford shares some views on mirroring, caching, metadata, Z39.50 and how he sees his role in CNI. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
Web Editorial: Goodbyeee |
The Web editor, John Kirriemuir bows out after ten Ariadne issues. |
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Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 10 |
John MacColl with the editorial from issue 10 of the print version. |
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Dublin Core Management |
Andy Powell presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE |
Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same. |
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BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians |
Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based. |
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The Library Association Web Site |
Alan Cooper and Finbarr Joy talk about the past, present and future of the Library Association Web Site. |
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The Librarian of Babel: The Self-Citation Machine |
The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, uncovers the true purpose of the World-Wide Web. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Metadata Corner: Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research |
Michael Day reports from the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 29-31, 1997. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Minotaur: Metadata -To Be, Or Not to Be (Catalogued) |
Gordon Dunsire thinks that all is not rosy in the garden that is metadata, and wonders how it can assist cataloguing in a real-world sense. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
