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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OMNI Seminar |
Debra Hiom reports from the second annual OMNI seminar. |
January 1997, issue7, event report |
Networking Moving Images |
Anne Mumford summarises the meeting organised by the British Universities Film and Video Council at the National Film Theatre on 18 December 1996, which looked into the problems and issues surrounding using academic networks for multimedia applications. |
January 1997, issue7, feature article |
MIDAS: Manchester Information, Datasets and Associated Services |
Anne McCombe describes a service that provides a wide range of datasets to the wider communities. |
January 1997, issue7, project update |
MCF: Will Dublin Form the Apple Core |
Jon Knight looks at how Dublin Core and Apple's new MCF metadata file format might make useful and interesting bed fellows. |
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Handling MARC With PERL |
Jon Knight investigates the inner workings of the MARC record's binary distribution format and presents the first cut at a Perl module to read and write MARC records. |
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Controlling Access in the Electronic Library |
Andy Powell and Mark Gillet discuss methods of electronic authentication. |
