Overview of content related to 'metadata'

Jim Ridolfo, William Hart-Davidson and Michael McLeod present a case example on building a digital archive with cultural and scholarly stakeholder groups - to provide a model for balancing stakeholder needs.

Jodi Schneider reports on a three-day workshop about the future of scientific communication, held in San Diego CA, USA, in January 2011.

Kate Sharp and Libby Miller describe Business and Economics Resources on the Internet.

Mahendra Mahey reviews a book which examines popular Internet culture and how it may be having negative effects on many of us.

Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.

Michael Day reviews another recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.

Chris Awre finds a useful toolset to guide librarians and LIS students on the future use of IT to deliver their services.

John Paschoud looks at this collection of articles and finds some good parts in a generally ineffective whole.

Brian Whalley reviews a book about a new theory of ‘information need’ that builds upon the ideas of Allen and Taylor from the 1960s to provide a basis for information searching.

Michael Day reviews an edited volume published to commemorate the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1958.

Katrina Clifford reviews a work covering the long-heralded change in the cataloguing rule set - RDA (Resource Description and Access).

Emma Tonkin takes a look at an impressive new book on the topic of metadata design, implementation and evaluation in theory and practice.

Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint for moving records management into the 21st century.

Marieke Guy takes a look at a recent introduction to metadata for the information professional.

Pete Cliff takes a look at a new book from the British Computer Society that aims to help readers understand the importance, issues and benefits of data management across an enterprise.

John Azzolini reviews an anthology of perceptive essays on the challenges presented to archival thought and practice by Web 2.0, postmodern perspectives, and cross-disciplinary interchanges.

Marieke Napier reviews the book: The Invisible Web.

Pete Cliff used to think 'Website Optimisation' simply meant compressing images and avoiding nested tables, but in this he book finds out how much more there is to it, even in the Age of Broadband.

Ed Summers describes Net::OAI::Harvester, the Perl package for easily interacting with OAI-PMH repositories as a metadata harvester. Ed provides examples of how to use Net::OAI::Harvester to write short programs which execute each of the 6 OAI-PMH verbs.