Editorial Introduction to Issue 25: Beyond the Web Site

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

Philip Hunter on the contents of Ariadne issue 25 and recent developments in the world of Digital Library initiatives.

The Higher Education (HE) community interest in information technology remains very much the same as it was when the web first appeared: networked access to high quality (and quality assured) information resources. Current activities in the UK (the RDN, the DNER, HERO, etc) are logical developments of these core interests.

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.

Overview of content related to 'application profile'

Editorial Introduction to Issue 25: Beyond the Web Site

Application Profiles: Mixing and Matching Metadata Schemas

Background