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 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 |
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 |
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 |
MIDRIB: Beyond Clip Art for Medicine |
Betsy Anagnostelis and Sue Welsh describe the recent launch of the MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) project, and describe the medical image resource the project will create. |
May 1997, issue9, feature article |
Never Mind the Quality, Check the Badge-Width! |
Alison McNab, Betsy Anagnostelis and Alison Cooke compare and contrast the methods used to identify and indicate which Internet-based resources are of high "quality". |
May 1997, issue9, feature article |
The Future of Digitising at the State Library of Victoria, Australia |
Catherine Herman and Indra Kurzeme discuss the multimedia source project, set within the context of the pro-multimedia State of Victora, Australia. |
May 1997, issue9, project update |
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 |
Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 8 |
John MacColl with the editorial for the Print version of Ariadne issue 8. |
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MODELS: MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services |
Rosemary Russell shows how MODELS are built from clumps. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
RUDI: Resource for Urban Design Information Services |
Alan Reeve maps out a new site in urban design. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
WoPEc: Electronic Working Papers in Economics Services |
Thomas Krichel describes WoPEc, a working papers project. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
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 |
Preserving Oral History Recordings |
Colin Webb and Kevin Bradley look at some of the practical realities, and implications, of introducing digital technology into the sound preservation functions of the National Library of Australia. |
March 1997, issue8, project update |
Making a MARC With Dublin Core |
Jon Knight revisits his Perl module for processing MARC records that was introduced in the last issue and adds UNIMARC, USMARC and a script that converts Dublin Core metadata into USMARC records. |
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Introducing Web Focus |
UK Web Focus - a strange job title. What is it? What does it do? In this article Brian Kelly describes his role as UK Web Focus, his previous involvement with the Web and his work as the JISC representative on the World Wide Web Consortium. |
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Down Your Way: The Natural History Museum |
John Kirriemuir takes in megabytes of trilobites at the Natural History Museum. |
March 1997, issue8, regular column |
Down Under With the Dublin Core |
Paul Miller and Tony Gill offer a view of the recent Dublin Core metadata workshop in the Australian capital, Canberra. |
March 1997, issue8, event report |
