Overview of content related to 'research'

DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning

editor — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Application Profiles: Mixing and Matching Metadata Schemas

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

Rachel Heery and Manjula Patel introduce a means of establishing a common approach to sharing information between implementers and standards makers.

Background

This paper introduces application profiles as a type of metadata schema. We use application profiles as a way of making sense of the differing relationship that implementors and namespace managers have towards metadata schema, and the different ways they use and develop schema. The idea of application profiles grew out of UKOLN's work on the DESIRE project (1), and since then has proved so helpful to us in our discussions of schemas and registries that we want to throw it out for wider discussion in the run-up to the DC8 Workshop in Ottawa in October.

Metadata Corner: CrossROADS and Interoperability

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

Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell report on work in progress on enhancements to the ROADS software.

Metadata Corner: Naming Names - Metadata Registries

editor — Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:00:00 +0000

Rachel Heery examines metadata issues.

To-day's information user may well have access to a range of resources, and these resources will be described in more diverse resource description formats than traditional MARC. During the search process a user will encounter systems based on several different resource description formats, for example, their local OPAC, an internet subject gateway, an electronic text archive, each of which will manipulate a different variety of metadata.

ROADS: Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-Based Services

editor — Sat, 18 May 1996 23:00:00 +0000

Rachel Heery, the ROADS Research Officer, describes this project from the Access to Network Resources area of the Electronic Libraries Programme. The deliverables of this project will constitute a large portion of the underlying software for most of the other projects in the same programme area, as well as other eLib and non-eLib projects, and therefore is one of the more crucial facets of the overall programme.

As MARC and cataloguing give way to metadata and resource description, the true impact of the internet is realised. Cataloguers are being transformed to.....metaloguers(?). The ranks of library school students who sat bemused through lectures on UKMARC and AACR need to indulge in a bit of reconstruction. Really they were applying a canonical syntactical representation to related manifestations, and maybe occasionally considering extensibility. They were doing metadata.