Overview of content related to 'dublin core'

Syndicated Content: It's More Than Just Some File Formats?

editor — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 23:00:00 +0000

Paul Miller takes a look at issues arising from the current enthusiasm for syndicating content to portals or other web sites, and offers some guidelines for good practice.

There is, unsurprisingly, an increasing recognition that digital resources of all kinds are eminently suitable to repurposing and reuse. The Iconex Project [1], for example, was funded under JISC's 5/99 Programme to look at the creation, storage and dissemination of reusable learning objects.

Architects of the Information Age

editor — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 23:00:00 +0000

Paul Miller reports on a recent UKOLN-organised event at the Office of the e-Envoy, and explores the need for an architecture to scope what we build online.

In July of this year, Interoperability Focus [1] organised a meeting at the Office of the e–Envoy [2], the Cabinet Office unit responsible for driving forward the UK's e–Government initiatives.

Across an increasing number of initiatives and programmes, there is a growing recognition of the need for common 'architectures' within which truly useful applications and services may be constructed.

Metadata (2): Towards Consensus on Educational Metadata

editor — Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Paul Miller describes the work of the UK's new cross-sectoral Metadata for Education Group (MEG) and calls for widespread support of their first deliverable: the MEG Concord.

As Pete Johnston illustrates elsewhere in this issue [1], e-Learning is big business, and likely to get bigger. Figures quoted in the recent report to the US Congress from the Web Based Education Commission [2], for example, place the current value of US-based 'formal' education at all levels at $2.5 Billion, and estimates growth to nearly $14 Billion by 2003. In the corporate sector, the figures are even more impressive, estimated at $1.1 Billion currently, and $11.4 Billion by 2003.

Metadata: Towards the Intelligent Museum

editor — Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:00:00 +0000

Paul Miller and Alice Grant explore CIMI: the collections standards organization which JISC has just joined.

Like libraries, museums face the daunting task of preserving our cultural heritage, whilst also striving with the often conflicting need to make that cultural heritage available to us today.

Perhaps differently from libraries, interpretation plays an important part in the work of museums, where exhibitions are often designed around the telling of one or more stories about the past in order to place objects within their historical context.

Interoperability: What Is It and Why Should I Want It?

editor — Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:00:00 +0000

Paul Miller explains what interoperability is and why you should want it.

Together with terms like "metadata" and "joined-up thinking", this word is increasingly being used within the information management discourse across all of our memory institutions. Its meaning, though, remains somewhat ambiguous, as do many of the benefits of "being interoperable". This paper is an attempt, written from the doubtless biased perspective of someone with the word in their job title, to explain some of what interoperability means, and to begin stating the case for more active efforts towards being truly interoperable across a range of services.

Z39.50 for All

editor — Wed, 22 Sep 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Paul Miller looks at the Z39.50 standard and attempts to extract some meaning from the mass of associated literature.

Z39.50. Despite certain nominative similarities, it's not a robot from that other blockbuster of the summer, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, but rather the cuddly and approachable name for an important standard of relevance to many working with information resources in a distributed environment.

Dublin Comes to Europe

editor — Thu, 19 Mar 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Paul Miller discusses issues raised at a recent European Commission meeting on metadata for resource discovery.

In writing for Ariadne, I have had occasion to report on a number of personal 'firsts', including my first trip to the southern hemisphere and my first taste of Finnish tar-flavoured ice cream. The meeting reported here proved no exception, with my first flight in an aeroplane sans jet engine, and my first time snowed in at an airport. Writing for Ariadne is, as you can see, a never-ending round of thrills and spills!

Metadata Corner: DC5 - the Search for Santa

editor — Wed, 19 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Tony Gill and Paul Miller's report from the 5th Dublin Core metdata conference in Helsinki.

Largely in recognition of the sterling work of the Nordic Metadata Project [1], invited representatives of the informal Dublin Core community set off to Finland's lovely capital for the fifth Dublin Core workshop [2].

Down Under With the Dublin Core

editor — Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Paul Miller and Tony Gill offer a view of the recent Dublin Core metadata workshop in the Australian capital, Canberra.

Continuing a long and glorious tradition, the 4th Dublin Core Workshop [1] last month went to a really nice country and picked one of the least lively settlements in which to meet. Admittedly, in the company of such as Dublin (Ohio, USA, rather than the somewhat more picturesque capital of Eire) and Coventry, Canberra did rather manage to shine.

Metadata for the Masses

editor — Wed, 18 Sep 1996 23:00:00 +0000

Paul Miller describes Dublin Core and several ideas for how it can be implemented.

Metadata. The word is increasingly to be found bandied about amongst the Web cognoscenti, but what exactly is it, and is it something that can be of value to you and your work? This article aims to explore some of the issues involved in metadata and then, concentrating specifically upon the Dublin Core, move on to show in a non-technical fashion how metadata may be used by anyone to make their material more accessible. A collection of references at the end of the article provides pointers to some of the current work in this field.