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Direct linkAscher, James P.; Ferris, Anna M. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2012
Developing collection-level surveys to expose hidden collections in special collections and archives departments within ARL libraries has received a great deal of scholarly attention in the recent years. Numerous standards have been explored, and each has its strengths and weaknesses. This paper summarizes some of the major initiatives in…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Archives, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries
Peer reviewedEl-Sherbini, Magda – Library Review, 2001
Surveys ongoing metadata projects to identify the types of metadata that exist and how they are used; compares and analyzes selected metadata elements to illustrate how they are related to MARC 21 metadata format elements; and discusses metadata standards, Dublin Core, diversity in classification, and the role of the Library of Congress.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Library Standards
Peer reviewedKim, Hyun-Hee; Choi, Chang-Seok – Electronic Library, 2000
Shows how XML is applied to digital library systems. Compares major features of XML with those of HTML and describes an experimental XML-based metadata retrieval system, which is based on the Dublin Core and is designed as a subsystem of the Korean Virtual Library and Information System (VINIS). (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedEl-Sherbini, Magda – Library Computing, 2000
This article is a survey of representative metadata efforts, comparing them to MARC 21 metadata in order to determine if new electronic formats require the development of a new set of standards. Explains the Dublin Core, the need for metadata, and discusses and describes the Library of Congress PCC Core. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Futures (of Society), Library Standards
Besser, Howard – D-Lib Magazine, 1999
Describes a study that examined an experimental multi-site image distribution scheme among museums and universities in California, The Museum Educational Site Licensing Project, whose content was primarily digital images and metadata. Discusses barriers to using digital images; digital image distribution; comparing digital images to analog slide…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Costs, Higher Education
Download full textArms, Caroline R. – 2000
This paper describes experiences in gathering together metadata from heterogeneous sources for the American Memory project of the Library of Congress, particularly for the collections digitized and cataloged at other institutions. It also reflects on several initiatives to develop rich structured metadata schemes for specific domains and to find…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Electronic Libraries
Sharon, Taly; Frank, Ariel J. – 2000
This paper discusses digital libraries on the Internet. The resource repository hierarchy, consisting of two major paradigms, search engines (SEs) and digital libraries, is presented. SEs are classified into three categories: basic-SE, directory, and meta-SE. The following six major characteristics of a library are summarized: collection of data…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Electronic Libraries
Peer reviewedFast, Karl V.; Campbell, D. Grant – Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 2001
Compares the implied ontological frameworks of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting and the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web. Discusses current search engine technology, semantic markup, indexing principles of special libraries and online databases, and componentization and the distinction between data and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data, Indexing, Metadata
Peer reviewedDow, Elizabeth H.; Chesnutt, David R.; Underwood, William E.; Tibbo, Helen R.; Kline, Mary-Jo; Bickford, Charlene N. – American Archivist, 2001
Discusses ways to improve and standardize intellectual access to electronically published historical documents. Highlights include metadata; information retrieval; the need for user studies; the need to assess implications for change in publication management; and the need to compare empirically various technological approaches to access to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Comparative Analysis, Electronic Publishing, Information Retrieval
Pole, Thomas – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Defines the contextual classification model, comparing it to the traditional metadata models from which it evolved. Using the MetaData Object Manager (M.O.M) as an example, discusses the use of Contextual Classification in developing this system, and the organizational, performance and reliability advantages of using an external (to the data…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Computer System Design, Expert Systems
Wade, Vincent P.; Doherty, Paul – 2000
This paper presents the design of an Internet-enabled search service that supports educational resource discovery within an educational brokerage service. More specifically, it presents the design and implementation of a metadata-driven approach to implementing the distributed search and retrieval of Internet-based educational resources and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Resources, Foreign Countries
Gorman, Michael – 2001
This paper addresses bibliographic services in the 21st century. The paper begins by reviewing achievements of the past 30 years, including Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC), MARC, International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), and the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition (AACR2). The cataloging of electronic resources is…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Classification, Comparative Analysis
Atkins, Helen; Lyons, Catherine; Ratner, Howard; Risher, Carol; Shillum, Chris; Sidman, David; Stevens, Andrew; Van de Sompel, Herbert; Lagoze, Carl; Van de Sompel, Herbert; Krichel, Thomas; Nelson, Michael L.; Hochstenbach, Patrick; Lyapunov, Victor M.; Maly, Kurt; Zubair, Mohammad; Kholief, Mohamed; Liu, Xiaoming; O'Connell, Heath; Kingma, Bruce R.; Pritcher, Lynn – D-Lib Magazine, 2000
Includes five articles that discuss publishers' metadata hyperlinks with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) on the Internet; the Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives initiative (Oai) that promotes author self-archiving; the Universal Preprint Service; costs of digital, microfiche, and print access; and an online database of old print…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Authors, Comparative Analysis
