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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Building ResourceFinder |
Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
C21st Curation Spring 2006 Public Lecture Series |
Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: access and service delivery' held at University College London over April and May 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
Can We Save Our Audio-visual Heritage? |
Daniel Teruggi describes PrestoSpace, the new FP6 Integrated project for the preservation of our disappearing audio-visual heritage. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
Capacity Building: Spoken Word at Glasgow Caledonian University |
Iain Wallace, Graeme West and David Donald give an account of the origins, nature and establishment of Spoken Word Services at Glasgow Caledonian University. |
July 2007, issue52, feature article |
Cataloguing Electronic Sources |
Jackie Hwang, Team Leader, Bibliographic Services, surveys progress so far at Information Services, University of Birmingham. |
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Cautionary Tales: Archives 2.0 and the Diplomatic Historian |
Michael Kennedy discusses the value of Archives 2.0 to the online version of Ireland's 'Documents on Irish Foreign Policy' series. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
CEDARS |
Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives. |
December 1998, issue18, project update |
Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles |
Steve Hitchcock and David Tarrant show how file format profiles, the starting point for preservation plans and actions, can also be used to reveal the fingerprints of emerging types of institutional repositories. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
CIG Conference 2010: Changes in Cataloguing in 'Interesting Times' |
Rhiannon McLoughlin reports on a three-day conference on cataloguing in a time of financial stringency, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group at Exeter University, from 13-15 September 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference |
Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service |
Kevin Emamy and Richard Cameron describe a tool that helps researchers gather, collect and share papers. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
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 |
Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA |
John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
Clumping Towards a UK National Catalogue? |
Dennis Nicholson argues in favour of the distributed approach to cataloguing. |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Clumps As Catalogues |
Peter Stubley asks whether CLUMPS as catalogues are 'virtual success or failure?' |
December 1999, issue22, feature article |
Clumps Come Up Trumps |
Helena Gillis, Verity Brack, John Gilby and Marian Hogg review the four eLib CLUMP projects now at the end of their funding periods. |
January 2001, issue26, feature article |
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 |
Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks |
Emma Tonkin, Edward M. Corrado, Heather Lea Moulaison, Margaret E. I. Kipp, Andrea Resmini, Heather D. Pfeiffer and Qiping Zhang gather a series of international perspectives on the practice of social tagging of documents within a community context. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library |
Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the Wellcome Library. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
Collection Description Focus Showcase: Mapping the Information Landscape |
Verity Brack reports on this one-day showcase of Collection Description projects and services held at the British Library, London, 25 March 2003. |
April 2003, issue35, event report |
Collection Description Focus: Spreading the Gospel |
Bridget Robinson and Pete Johnston with an overview of CLD activities in the first year. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
Collection Description in Focus |
Clare McVeigh and Dierdre Wildy: A Report on the Collection Description Focus Workshops, Nov 2001-Mar 2002 |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Collection-level Description: Thinking Globally before Acting Locally |
Ann Chapman and Bridget Robinson write on the work of the Collection Description Focus and the links between Tap into Bath, Cornucopia and the Information Environment Service Registry. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Collective Convergence: The Work of the Collection Description Focus |
Pete Johnston and Bridget Robinson outline the work of the Collection Description Focus. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Considering a Marketing and Communications Approach for an Institutional Repository |
Heleen Gierveld proposes a market-oriented approach to increase the rate of deposit to an institutional repository. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources |
Jane Stevenson gives a personal view of the recent UK conference organised by the International Society of Knowledge Organization. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them? |
Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Controlling Access in the Electronic Library |
Andy Powell and Mark Gillet discuss methods of electronic authentication. |
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Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access |
Leo Waaijers writes about copyright, prestige and cost control in the world of open access while in two appendices Bas Savenije and Michel Wesseling compare the costs of open access publishing and subscriptions/licences for their respective institutions. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
Copyright Corner |
Charles Oppenheim on the copyright issues that all eLib (and many other projects) should be aware of. |
May 1996, issue3, regular column |
Cornucopia: An Open Collection Description Service |
Chris Turner describes the latest phase of Cornucopia development and the opportunities this is opening up for the future. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
Creative Archive |
Paul Gerhardt describes the origins and development of the Creative Archive Project at the BBC. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
CRIS2006: Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic League |
Derek Sergeant and Jessie Hey report on this 3-day conference in Bergen, Norway, 11-13 May 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
Cultural Heritage Language Technologies: Building an Infrastructure for Collaborative Digital Libraries in the Humanities |
Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox describes the work of the Cultural Heritage Language Technologies consortium, a research group funded by the European Comission Information Society Technologies program and the United States National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
CURATEcamp iPres 2012 |
Mark Jordan, Courtney Mumma, Nick Ruest and the participants of CURATEcamp iPres 2012 report on this unconference for digital curation practitioners and researchers, held on 2 October 2012 in Toronto. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
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 |
DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow |
William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both. |
October 2003, issue37, 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 |
Data Citation and Publication by NERC’s Environmental Data Centres |
Sarah Callaghan, Roy Lowry, David Walton and members of the Natural Environment Research Council Science Information Strategy Data Citation and Publication Project team describe their work in NERC’s Environmental Data Centres. |
March 2012, issue68, feature article |
Data Science Professionals: A Global Community of Sharing |
Sylvie Lafortune reports on the 37th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST), held over 30 May – 3 June 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
