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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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Editorial Introduction to Issue 43: When Technology Alone Is Not Enough |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 43. |
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Opening Up OpenURLs with Autodiscovery |
Daniel Chudnov, Richard Cameron, Jeremy Frumkin, Ross Singer and Raymond Yee demonstrate a 'gather locally, share globally' approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions |
Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
E-Archiving: An Overview of Some Repository Management Software Tools |
Marion Prudlo discusses LOCKSS, EPrints, and DSpace in terms of who uses them, their cost, underlying technology, the required know-how, and functionalities. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Finding Someplace to Go: Reading and the Internet |
Marieke Guy takes a look at what the Internet has to offer the art of reading. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
What Are Your Terms? |
Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges it is facing. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
Installing Shibboleth |
Simon McLeish describes the experience of Shibboleth installation in a Higher Education environment, and suggests ways to make this experience more user-friendly. |
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EuroCAMP 2005 |
Masha Garibyan and Ann Borda report on the first Campus Architecture Middleware Planning workshop in Europe hosted by the Politecnico di Torino. |
April 2005, issue43, event report |
10th CETIS-TechDis Accessibility Special Interest Group Meeting |
Ann Chapman reports on a one-day meeting that focused among other things on accessibility in virtual learning environments and personal learning profiles. |
April 2005, issue43, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2005, issue43, news and events |
Book Review: Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval |
Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata for the information professional. |