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Ng, Kwong Bor; Park, Soyeon; Burnett, Kathleen – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1997
Examines the different concepts and orientations of the two major approaches to the role of metadata in the digital library (library science-oriented bibliographic control and computer science-oriented data management), and proposes an integrated concept of metadata to facilitate the merging of these two approaches. Discusses ongoing efforts to…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Cataloging, Computer Science, Electronic Libraries
Peer reviewedBurnett, Kathleen; Ng, Kwong Bor; Park, Soyeon – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Describes different conceptual foundations and orientations of the two major approaches to metadata: bibliographic-control approach (origins and major proponents in library science); and data-management approach (origins and major proponents in computer science). Examination of efforts to establish metadata standards and comparison of different…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Computer Science
