Overview of content related to 'metadata'
This page provides an overview of 12 articles related to 'metadata', listing most recently updated content first. Note that filters may be applied to display a sub-set of articles in this category (see FAQs on filtering for usage tips). Select this link to remove all filters.
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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Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective |
Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
A Recipe for Cream of Science: Special Content Recruitment for Dutch Institutional Repositories |
Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil describe the Cream of Science Project, part of the DARE Programme, which generated a Web site offering open access to almost 25,000 publications by 207 prominent scholars across the Netherlands. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
DARE Project Chronology |
To accompany their main article, Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil provide a chronological overview of the DARE project. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
DAEDALUS: Delivering the Glasgow EPrints Service |
Morag Greig and William Nixon describe the key aims and findings of the DAEDALUS Project and the Glasgow ePrints Service. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Repositories, Copyright and Creative Commons for Scholarly Communication |
Esther Hoorn considers ways librarians can support scholars in managing the demands of copyright so as to respond to the needs of scholarly communication. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Improving DSpace@OSU With a Usability Study of the ET/D Submission Process |
Michael Boock discusses the ease and usefulness of conducting a usability study and provides an example of usability testing at Oregon State University undertaken to improve the DSpace ET/D submission process. |
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Web Focus: Must Email Die? |
Brian Kelly recently gave a talk on this subject at the Internet Librarian International 2005 conference. In this article he expands on the talk and revisits the question as to whether email really should disappear. |
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Distributed Services Registry Workshop |
John Gilby reports on the UKOLN/IESR two-day workshop at Scarman House, University of Warwick on 14-15 July 2005. |
October 2005, issue45, event report |
DC 2005 |
Robina Clayphan reports on the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Vocabularies in Practice held at the University of Carlos III, Madrid in September 2005. |
October 2005, issue45, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2005, issue45, news and events |
Book Review: Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources |
Sarah Higgins learns how to incorporate online resources into a library catalogue using AACR2 and MARC, but wonders why the wider issue of organising and describing a full range of digital resources is not addressed. |
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Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2004 (Volume 38) |
Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology. |
