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Dillon, Martin – 2000
This paper discusses bibliographic control of knowledge resources on the World Wide Web. The first section sets the context of the inquiry. The second section covers the following topics related to metadata: (1) definitions of metadata, including metadata as tags and as descriptors; (2) metadata on the Web, including general metadata systems,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Knowledge Representation, Library Role
McCallum, Sally – 2000
This paper looks at three avenues of exploration related to bibliographic records that the World Wide Web environment invites--sorting out the level of control for Web material, reevaluating aspects of descriptive content requirements for these materials, and experimenting with new format structures. Part I discusses extending MARC for Web…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Library Role

Turner, Thomas P.; Brackbill, Lise – Library Resources & Technical Services, 1998
Evaluates the effectiveness of using the HTML META tag to improve retrieval of World Wide Web documents through Internet search engines. Analysis of sample searches suggests that the use of the keywords attribute in a META tag substantially improves accessibility whereas use of the description attribute alone does not. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval, Internet

Stratford, Jean Slemmons; Stratford, Juri – Journal of Government Information, 2001
Describes Counting California, a Web-based system providing open access to economic and social data on California produced by federal, state, and local agencies through a single interface. Also explains the DDI (data documentation initiative), a developing metadata standard for describing social and economic data, and gives example of systems that…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Economic Research, Government Publications, Metadata
Efthimiadis, Efthimis N.; Carlyle, Allyson – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1997
Provides an overview of this special issue on organizing resources on the Internet and discusses metadata. Topics include full-text indexing; adding additional data, or metadata; user needs; standard library cataloging; examples of the use of metadata; development of GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials); Dublin Core; and OCLC efforts. (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Larson, Carolyn; Arret, Linda – 2000
This paper presents a discussion of what reference librarians require with regard to the bibliographic control of networked resources, based on 200 responses to a survey of U.S. reference providers and on comments made at an open meeting on this topic sponsored by the Library of Congress at the July 2000 American Library Association Annual…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Librarians, Library Services
Lim, Edward – 1999
This paper discusses access to information about Southeast Asia on the Internet. The first section summarizes problems with the major Internet search engines and directories. Three broad categories of solutions to improve Internet searching and retrieval are suggested in the second section: (1) efforts to assist end users to use the search engines…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Case Studies, Classification, Foreign Countries
Schwartz, Candy – 2001
This book examines what has been done in providing subject access to networked resources. The first chapter provides a historical overview of information services, developments in information technology, end users, and the Internet, as well as a discussion of the library response to these developments. The second chapter discusses metadata,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Authority Control (Information), Cataloging, Classification

Seadle, Michael – Library Hi Tech, 1998
Summarizes the elements of the Cornell-Yale digitization model and shows how Michigan State University (MSU) has expanded the model, focusing on a project to digitize the American Radicalism Collection of the MSU Libraries. Issues of selection, quality, integrity, longevity, and access are discussed. Sidebars present MSU digitizing procedures,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Higher Education, Library Automation
Whitehead, E. James, Jr. – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1998
Discusses the WebDAV Distributed Authoring Protocol which provides standards that allow easier collaborative authoring over the World Wide Web. Topics include Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), overwrite prevention, access control, searching, metadata, XML (Extensible Markup Language), and Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Authoring Aids (Programming), Collaborative Writing, Hypermedia
Guenther, Kim – Computers in Libraries, 2000
Discusses digital libraries and Web site design issues. Highlights include accessibility issues, including standards, markup languages like HTML and XML, and metadata; building virtual communities; the use of Web portals for customized delivery of information; quality assurance tools, including data mining; and determining user needs, including…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Library Administration, Library Services

Quam, Eileen – Government Information Quarterly, 2001
Explains Minnesota's Foundations Project, a multiagency collaboration to improve access to environmental and natural resources information. Discusses the use of the Dublin core metadata standard for Web resources and describes three studies that included needs assessment, Bridges Web site user interface, and usability of controlled vocabulary in…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Interfaces, Environmental Research, Government Publications
Perkins, John – 2001
Museums hold enormous amounts of information in collections management systems and publish academic and scholarly research in print journals, exhibition catalogs, virtual museum presentations, and community publications. Much of this rich content is unavailable to web search engines or otherwise gets lost in the vastness of the World Wide Web. The…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Information Dissemination, Information Management
Shabajee, Paul; Miller, Libby; Dingley, Andy – 2002
A group of research projects based at HP-Labs Bristol, the University of Bristol (England) and ARKive (a new large multimedia database project focused on the worlds biodiversity based in the United Kingdom) are working to develop a flexible model for the indexing of multimedia collections that allows users to annotate content utilizing extensible…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Biodiversity, Databases, Foreign Countries
Karpenko, Volodymyr – 1998
This study was to conducted to define how metatags are used by Ohio public library webmasters and to determine the de facto standard for metatag usage. The 106 Ohio public library World Wide Web sites accessible through the Ohio Public Libraries Information Network (OPLIN) were evaluated using a statistical analysis of the HTLM code and content of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Hypermedia, Indexing, Information Retrieval
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