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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Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites |
Maureen Pennock reports on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006. |
February 2006, issue46, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
February 2006, issue46, news and events |
Book Review: ARIST 39 - Annual Review of Information Science and Technology |
Michael Day reviews another recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology. |
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Book Review: Managing Electronic Records |
Lise Foster finds much to think about in this wide-ranging collection of essays on the fast-developing field of electronic records management. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 47: Keeping What We Know |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 47. |
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Digitising an Archive: The Factory Approach |
Duncan Burbidge describes a new approach to digitising an archive both as a future-proof substitute and for Web delivery. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Retrospective on the RDN |
Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
QMSearch: A Quality Metrics-aware Search Framework |
Aaron Krowne and Urvashi Gadi present a framework which improves searching in the context of scholarly digital libraries by taking a 'quality metrics-aware' approach. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Metasearch: Building a Shared, Metadata-driven Knowledge Base System |
Terry Reese discusses the creation of a shared knowledge base system within OSU's open-source metasearch development. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Stargate: Exploring Static Repositories for Small Publishers |
R. John Robertson introduces a project examining the potential benefits of OAI-PMH Static Repositories as a means of enabling small publishers to participate more fully in the information environment. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging |
Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Serving Services in Web 2.0 |
Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
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 |
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 |
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 |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2006, issue47, news and events |
Book Review: The Institutional Repository |
Sally Rumsey recommends a new book about institutional repositories. |
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Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise |
Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
Introducing UnAPI |
Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
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 |
UK Digital Preservation Needs Assessment: Where We Go from Here |
Najla Semple and Maggie Jones outline the background and findings of the Digital Preservation Coalition's UK Needs Assessment and the Mind the Gap report. |
July 2006, issue48, 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 |
A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation |
Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
IWMW 2006: Quality Matters |
Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
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 |
Email Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-term Preservation |
Dave Thompson reports on a two-day conference on Email Curation organised by the Digital Curation Centre. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
JISC/CNI Conference, York 2006 |
Najla Semple and Robin Rice were at the JISC / CNI conference 'Envisioning future challenges in networked information'. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
Fedora Users Conference |
Chris Awre and Richard Green report from the Fedora Users Conference, a two-day meeting for users of the open source Fedora repository system held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, over 19-20 June 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
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 |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2006, issue48, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 49: Technology Is Only Part of the Story |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 49. |
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From Nought to a Thousand: The HUSCAP Project |
Suziki Masako and Sugita Shigeki describe Hokkaido University's efforts to populate its institutional repository with journal articles. |
October 2006, issue49, 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 |
e-Books for the Future: Here but Hiding? |
Brian Whalley outlines some developments in e-book technologies and links them to existing ways of presenting textbook information. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
GROW: Building a High-quality Civil Engineering Learning Object Repository and Portal |
Yan Han provides a general overview of the Geotechnical, Rock and Water Digital Library (GROW), a learning object repository and peer-reviewed civil engineering Web portal. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
Wiki Or Won't He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis |
Marieke Guy revisits a topic receiving considerable attention these days and reflects on wiki use by public organisations. |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
RDA: A New International Standard |
Ann Chapman describes work on the new cataloguing code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR). |
October 2006, issue49, feature article |
DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning |
Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too... |
David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
Workshop on E-Research, Digital Repositories and Portals |
Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Caroline Ingram report on a two-day workshop held at University of Lancaster over 6-7 September 2006 |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
