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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 47: Keeping What We Know |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 47. |
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Digitising an Archive: The Factory Approach |
Duncan Burbidge describes a new approach to digitising an archive both as a future-proof substitute and for Web delivery. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Retrospective on the RDN |
Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
QMSearch: A Quality Metrics-aware Search Framework |
Aaron Krowne and Urvashi Gadi present a framework which improves searching in the context of scholarly digital libraries by taking a 'quality metrics-aware' approach. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Metasearch: Building a Shared, Metadata-driven Knowledge Base System |
Terry Reese discusses the creation of a shared knowledge base system within OSU's open-source metasearch development. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Stargate: Exploring Static Repositories for Small Publishers |
R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging |
Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Serving Services in Web 2.0 |
Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
The Rustle of Digital Curation: The JISC Annual Conference |
Julie Allinson, Marieke Guy and Maureen Pennock find themselves contemplating e-frameworks, digital curation and repositories at the JISC Annual Conference. |
April 2006, issue47, event report |
Code4lib 2006 |
Jeremy Frumkin and Dan Chudnov report on the inaugural conference of the Code4lib community of programmers, hackers, and techies working in or with libraries and information systems. |
April 2006, issue47, event report |
The Second Digital Repositories Programme Meeting |
Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey report on a 2-day JISC Digital Repositories Meeting focusing on project clusters working together and other related issues held by JISC in Warwick, UK over 27-28 March 2006. |
April 2006, issue47, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2006, issue47, news and events |
Book Review: The Institutional Repository |
Sally Rumsey recommends a new book about institutional repositories. |