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Sutton, Stuart A. – Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, 2000
Describes the GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials) project that was developed to provide retrieval of lesson plans and teacher guides on the Internet <http://www.thegateway.org>. Discusses the development of a metadata set for controlled description based on the Dublin Core, distributing GEM metadata on the World Wide Web, and future…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Futures (of Society), Information Retrieval, Instructional Materials
Sutton, Stuart A.; Oh, Sam G. – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1997
Describes the GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials) project being developed to provide enhanced access to lesson plans and other Internet-based educational materials through metadata. Highlights include controlled vocabularies; NIDR (networked information discovery and retrieval); the Dublin Core element set; syntax; prototype interfaces; and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Interfaces, Information Retrieval, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedSutton, Stuart A. – Government Information Quarterly, 2001
Explores the development of the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) dataset and the relationship between that dataset and the disparate services that have emerged as a result of the Internet and the Web. Discusses the technical infrastructure; database content; services and resources; creating a unified knowledge base; and metadata…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Databases, Educational Resources, Futures (of Society)
Download full textSutton, Stuart A. – 2000
This paper explores general issues surrounding the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database--its content, operations, and possible "futures." It addresses specific questions regarding restrictions on content and, in particular, the exclusion from the database of a range of non-print media; and the exclusion of the…
Descriptors: Databases, Educational Resources, Information Networks, Information Services
Sutton, Stuart A.; Lankes, R. David; Small, Ruth V.; Eisenberg, Michael B. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1998
Describes the Gateway to Educational Materials Project (GEM) at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology at Syracuse University. Explicates the GEM metadata element set and how GEM metadata is created. Discusses the syntactic binding of GEM metadata and the mechanisms for its distribution. Concludes with a brief discussion of existing…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Interfaces, Educational Resources, Educational Technology
Peer reviewedSutton, Stuart A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Describes the conceptual foundations for the Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) metadata framework including adoption of the Dublin Core Element Set as its base referent, and extension of that set to meet the needs of the domain. Discusses selection and structuring of the units of description. Examines metadata generation, the association of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer System Design, Educational Resources, Information Services
