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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Metadata, PICS and Quality |
Chris Armstrong looks at the possibility of a PICS application acting as a quality filter. |
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Extending Metadata for Digital Preservation |
Michael Day suggests how the concept of metadata could be extended to provide information in the specific field of digital preservation. |
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Wire: Interview Via Email With Jon Knight and Martin Hamilton |
In this interview we question Knight and Martin Hamilton and present their replies. |
May 1997, issue9, regular column |
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 |
Web Editorial: Goodbyeee |
The Web editor, John Kirriemuir bows out after ten Ariadne issues. |
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Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 10 |
John MacColl with the editorial from issue 10 of the print version. |
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Dublin Core Management |
Andy Powell presents three models for the way in which metadata can be managed across a Web site and describes some of the tools that are beginning to be used at UKOLN to embed Dublin Core metadata into Web pages. |
July 1997, issue10, feature article |
A Digital Library Showcase and Support Service - the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE |
Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same. |
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BUBL : How BUBL Benefits Academic Librarians |
Alan Dawson and Jan Simpson take us through BUBL, an old service recently transformed from being Gopher-based to Web-based. |
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The Library Association Web Site |
Alan Cooper and Finbarr Joy talk about the past, present and future of the Library Association Web Site. |
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The Librarian of Babel: The Self-Citation Machine |
The Librarian, talking to Mike Holderness, uncovers the true purpose of the World-Wide Web. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Metadata Corner: Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research |
Michael Day reports from the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 29-31, 1997. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
Minotaur: Metadata -To Be, Or Not to Be (Catalogued) |
Gordon Dunsire thinks that all is not rosy in the garden that is metadata, and wonders how it can assist cataloguing in a real-world sense. |
July 1997, issue10, regular column |
York Information Connections: An Attempt to Catalogue the Internet |
Christine Ellwood and Sarah Thompson outline the rationale behind the approach of the University of York Library to cataloguing Internet resources. |
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Cataloguing Electronic Sources |
Jackie Hwang, Team Leader, Bibliographic Services, surveys progress so far at Information Services, University of Birmingham. |
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Interface: All Pre-Prints Servers Are Not the Same |
Isobel Stark talks to Dan Fleming of the Formations project. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries |
Rachel Heery examines metadata issues. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Planet SOSIG: ALISS and IRISS |
Debra Hiom on recent developments and happenings with ALISS, IRISS, and SOSIG. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Public Libraries Corner: A Public Library Metadata Initiative |
Sally Criddle introduces an initiative to extend current developments in the use of metadata to the public library community. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Web Focus Corner: Running an Institutional Web Service |
Brian Kelly reports on a workshop on running an institutional web service. |
September 1997, issue11, regular column |
Digital Libraries '97 |
David Nichols reports on the important international conference: Digital Libraries '97. |
September 1997, issue11, event report |
SIGIR '97 |
David Nichols reports on the follow-on conference SIGIR '97. |
September 1997, issue11, event report |
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 12 |
Philip Hunter and Isobel Stark introduce Ariadne, in its Web Version. |
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The History of History |
Stephen Smith explains the background to the relaunch of IHR-Info as HISTORY. |
November 1997, issue12, project update |
Metadata Corner: DC5 - the Search for Santa |
Tony Gill and Paul Miller's report from the 5th Dublin Core metdata conference in Helsinki. |
November 1997, issue12, regular column |
Minotaur: We Must Not Be Driven by IT |
Ray Lester says IT is not just a tool in an information strategy. |
November 1997, issue12, regular column |
Planet SOSIG: DESIRE Training for the Distributed Internet Cataloguing Model |
Lesly Huxley looks at the work of the project DESIRE: Training for the Distributed Internet Cataloguing Model. |
November 1997, issue12, regular column |
Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges |
Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project. |
November 1997, issue12, regular column |
Dublin Comes to Europe |
Paul Miller discusses issues raised at a recent European Commission meeting on metadata for resource discovery. |
March 1998, issue14, feature article |
Electronic Resource Creation and Management at Scottish Universities |
Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith describe the Catriona II project. |
March 1998, issue14, project update |
Metadata Corner: CrossROADS and Interoperability |
Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell report on work in progress on enhancements to the ROADS software. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
What Is RDF? |
Rachel Heery explains RDF (Resource Description Framework) |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
Task Force Meeting |
Kelly Russell reports on the US CNI Conference. |
March 1998, issue14, event report |
The Access Catalogue Gateway to Resources |
Terry Hanson explores how libraries might develop effective ways of indicating their access arrangements to their users. |
May 1998, issue15, feature article |
ROUTES Project |
Una O'Sullivan describes the Open University ROUTES project. |
May 1998, issue15, feature article |
What Is XML? |
Brian Kelly elucidates another infuriating three letter acronym: XML. |
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Project Builder |
Stephen Pinfield outlines the aims of Project Builder, a phase-3 eLib project. |
May 1998, issue15, project update |
Web Focus: The 7th World Wide Web Conference |
Brian Kelly is interviewed about the 7th World Wide Web Conference upon his return from Brisbane. |
May 1998, issue15, regular column |
RDF Seminar |
Matthew Dovey reports on the RDF seminar held in the Stakis Hotel, Bath. |
May 1998, issue15, event report |
Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 16 |
Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce Ariadne issue 16. |
