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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The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources |
Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
The Information Grid |
Ariadne reports on a one-day workshop on 'an interoperable environment to support research, learning and teaching' held at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, April 30, 2002. |
July 2002, issue32, event report |
The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop |
William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003. |
July 2003, issue36, event report |
The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number? |
Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
The JISC Information Environment and Web Services |
Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies |
Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme. |
June 2001, issue28, event report |
The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up' |
Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community and its September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge management issues. |
October 2007, issue53, event report |
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 |
The Librarian's Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2008 |
Keir Hopwood reports on three-day conference about current and future trends in the practice of information literacy teaching in Higher Education and beyond. |
April 2008, issue55, event report |
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 Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts |
Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
The LIPARM Project: A New Approach to Parliamentary Metadata |
Richard Gartner outlines a collaborative project which aims to link together the digitised UK Parliamentary record by providing a metadata scheme, controlled vocabularies and a Web-based interface. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
The MrCute Repository: The Next Phase |
Helen Brady describes the MrCute repository project and its potential impact on the digital learning object-sharing community. |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
The National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future |
Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM's text mining tools and services. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives |
Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry describe NaCTeM's plans to provide text mining services for UK academics. |
January 2005, issue42, feature article |
The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation |
Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
The Norwegian National Digital Library |
Marianne Takle describes the National Library of Norway's digitisation strategy and how the National Library is taking on a key role in the country's digital library service. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
The Open Archives Forum |
Susanne Dobratz, Friederike Schimmelpfennig and Peter Schirmbacher introduce the new Open Archives Forum project to promote the ideas of the OAI in Europe. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
The OpenURL and OpenURL Framework: Demystifying Link Resolution |
Ann Apps reports on a conference about current and future uses of the proposed OpenURL Framework Standard Z39.88-2004. |
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The Personalisation of the Digital Library |
Michelle Perrott and Anne Ramsden report on the Joint Open University - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Seminar on Personalisation and Digital Libraries hosted at the Open University, October 2002. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
The Portole Project: Supporting E-learning |
Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
The REMAP Project: Steps Towards a Repository-enabled Information Environment |
Richard Green and Chris Awre investigate what role a repository can play in enabling and supporting the management and preservation of its own digital content. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
The Resource Discovery Project |
As Renato Iannella shows, the Resource Discovery project at the DSTC in Australia is investigating issues to do with information discovery and access across large heterogeneous networks. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
The RoMEO Project: Protecting Metadata in an Open Access Environment |
Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim and Steve Probets describe how the RoMEO Project is seeking to safeguard freely available metadata disclosed and harvested under the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
The RSP Goes 'Back to School' |
Stephanie Taylor reports on the three-day residential school for repository managers run by the Repositories Support Project (RSP), held on 14-16 September 2009 in Northumberland. |
October 2009, issue61, event report |
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 |
The Scholarly Journal in Transition and the PubMed Central Proposal |
Michael Day discusses the scholarly journal in transition and the PubMed Central proposal. |
September 1999, issue21, feature article |
The Second British Library DataCite Workshop |
Alex Ball reports on a one-day workshop on metadata supporting the citation of research data, held at the British Library, London, on 6 July 2012. |
July 2012, issue69, 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 |
The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace |
Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality for DSpace. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
The Tasks of the AHDS: Ten Years on |
Alastair Dunning reviews 10 years in the history of the Arts and Humanities Data Service. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
The Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) |
Karla Youngs describes what TASI is and the work that it is doing in building a common ‘Framework’ for digital imaging projects. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
The Third Annual edUi Conference 2011 |
Danielle Cooley reports on the third annual edUi Conference, held over 13-14 October 2011, in Richmond, Virginia, USA, an opportunity for Web professionals in colleges, universities, libraries, museums, etc to discuss the latest developments in Web trends and technologies. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
The Video Active Consortium: Europe's Television History Online |
Johan Oomen and Vassilis Tzouvaras provide an insight into the background and development of the Video Active Portal which offers access to television heritage material from leading archives across Europe. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
The W3C Technical Architecture Group |
Henry S. Thompson introduces the W3C Technical Architecture Group and its work. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
The Web Editor: 'Abzu and Beyond' |
Charles Jones muses on the history of the Internet presence of the University of Chicago Oriental Institute. |
September 1999, issue21, regular column |
Three Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional Research Repositories in Europe |
Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Gera Pronk and Maurits van der Graaf report on the most significant results from two surveys conducted to provide an overview of repositories with research output in the European Union. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
Through the Web Authoring Tools |
Paul Browning offers a technical review of new approaches to Web publishing. |
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Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles |
Talat Chaudhri, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey and Emma Tonkin propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Towards a Typology for Portals |
Paul Miller looks at some of the services we call portals, and argues for better words to describe them. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
