Metadata in practice / Diane I. Hillmann, Elaine L. Westbrooks [editors].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hillmann, Diane I. (Diane Ileana), 1948-

Westbrooks, Elaine L.

American Library Association.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information organization.

Metadata.

Database management.

Physical Description:

xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : American Library Association, 2004.

Summary:

Part One illustrates projects serving teachers, universities, Canadian educators, statewide collaborations, and geographical information, while Part Two addresses future trends. Considering these examples, with their unvarnished "lessons learned," librarians will derive answers to such technical questions as: - What are the major standards relevant to digital libraries?- How do these elements relate to one another and to traditional library practices?- How do planners integrate cutting edge metadata issues into project planning?- What does the future hold for harvesting, re-use, and re-purposing of information?

Contents:

Part I Project-Based Implementations

1 Building an Education Digital Library: GEM and Early Metadata Standards Adoption / Stuart A. Sutton 1

2 Building Heritage Colorado: The Colorado Digitization Experience / Liz Bishoff, Elizabeth S. Meagher 17

3 Museums and Metadata: A Shifting Paradigm / Angela Spinazze 37

4 The Eye of the Beholder: Challenges of Image Description and Access at Harvard / Robin Wendler 51

5 Building a Metadata-Sharing Campus: The University of Minnesota IMAGES Initiatives / Charles F. Thomas 70

6 Crosswalking Citation Metadata: The University of California's Experience / Karen Coyle 89

7 CanCore: Semantic Interoperability for Learning Object Metadata / Norm Friesen 104

8 The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Metadata Development and Use / Linda L. Hill, Greg Janee 117

9 Distributing and Synchronizing Heterogeneous Metadata in Geospatial Information Repositories for Access / Elaine L. Westbrooks 139

10 The Internet Scout Project's Metadata Management Experience: Research, Solutions, and Knowledge / Rachael Bower, David Sleasman, Edward Almasy 158

11 Lessons Learned from the Illinois OAI Metadata Harvesting Project / Timothy W. Cole, Sarah L. Shreeves 174

Part II The Future of Metadata Development and Practice

12 Community-Based Content Control / Harriette Hemmasi 191

13 Building an Open Language Archives Community on the DC Foundation / Steven Bird, Gary Simons 203

14 Mixed Content and Mixed Metadata: Information Discovery in a Messy World / Caroline R. Arms, William Y. Arms 223

15 The Continuum of Metadata Quality: Defining, Expressing, Exploiting / Thomas R. Bruce, Diane I. Hillmann 238

16 Metadata Futures: Steps toward Semantic Interoperability / Rachel Heery 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0838908829

OCLC:

54528888