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Peer reviewedSmith, Steven D. – Microform and Imaging Review, 1999
When providing access to digital images, there are three elements to consider: structure, location, and appearance. These considerations are illustrated with two examples--a book and a photograph collection. Each of the elements is then described in detail. (AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Books, Computer Interfaces, Databases
Smith, Clive D. – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1997
Describes the evolution of an electronic document management system for the World Bank, including record-keeping components, and how the Pittsburgh requirements for evidence in record keeping were used to evaluate it. Discusses imaging technology for scanning paper records, metadata for retrieval and record keeping, and extending the system to…
Descriptors: Database Management Systems, Electronic Text, Information Management, Information Retrieval
Miller, Eric – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1998
Explains the Resource Description Framework (RDF), an infrastructure developed under the World Wide Web Consortium that enables the encoding, exchange, and reuse of structured metadata. It is an application of Extended Markup Language (XML), which is a subset of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), and helps with expressing semantics.…
Descriptors: Documentation, Electronic Text, Information Storage, Metadata
Bearman, David; Rust, Godfrey; Weibel, Stuart; Miller, Eric; Trant, Jennifer – D-Lib Magazine, 1999
The Dublin Core metadata community and the INDECS/DOI community of authors, rights holders, and publishers are seeking common ground in the expression of metadata for information resources. An open "Schema Harmonization" working group has been established to identify a common framework to support interoperability among these communities.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Electronic Publishing, Electronic Text, Guidelines
Peer reviewedWise, James A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Presents both theoretical and technical bases on which to build a "science of text visualization." The Spatial Paradigm for Information Retrieval and Exploration (SPIRE) text-visualization system, which images information from free-text documents as natural terrains, serves as an example of the "ecological approach" in its visual metaphor, its…
Descriptors: Electronic Text, Information Processing, Information Retrieval, Information Systems
Peer reviewedWatters, Carolyn – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Defines virtual documents and categorizes them, roughly, on how they are created, such as using templates, from computations, as composites, and as metadata. Describes the following information retrieval problems with virtual documents: search, revisiting, authentication, reference, version control, and annotation. (AEF)
Descriptors: Electronic Journals, Electronic Text, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
Peer reviewedFoley, Dan – Journal of Southern Academic and Special Librarianship, 1999
Discusses three kinds of metadata--Dublin Core (DC), MARC21 (formerly USMARC), and Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)--and how they are used in the Energy & Environmental Information Resources Center (EE-IR Center), a digital special library of text, numeric, and geospatial data in Lafayette, Louisiana. Includes 5 figures. (Contains 48…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Text, Information Centers
Download full textCouncil on Library and Information Resources, Washington, DC. – 2002
The United States Congress in December 2000 appropriated funds to the Library of Congress (LC) to spearhead an effort to develop a national strategy for the preservation of digital information. LC staff scheduled a series of conversations with representatives from the technology, business, entertainment, academic, legal, archival, and library…
Descriptors: Archives, Electronic Text, Information Policy, Information Sources
Peer reviewedCortez, Edwin M. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Introduces a prototype system for devising and using a metadata vocabulary for data retrieval, based on a project at the United States Department of Agriculture. A unified information-access system called REEIS (Research, Education, Economics, Extension Information System) is being designed to provide a knowledge base of programs, projects, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer System Design, Data Collection, Electronic Text
Peer reviewedThornely, Jenny – Australian Library Journal, 1998
The goal of the State Library of Queensland's (Australia) Metadata Project is the deployment of metadata using the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set in State Library Web pages. This is expected to improve resource discovery by Internet users, through providing index information (metadata) in State Library Web pages which is then available to search…
Descriptors: Electronic Text, Foreign Countries, Information Management, Information Retrieval
Tennant, Roy – Library Journal, 1998
Discusses how collections in the digital library, instead of traditional cataloging, call for metadata, structured information about information. Describes three categories of metadata information about digital resources: descriptive, structural, and administrative. Examines emerging standards for digital-library classification. (AEF)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Utilities, Cataloging, Classification, Electronic Libraries
Barrett, G. Jaia, Ed. – ARL, 1998
This document consists of six issues of the ARL (Association of Research Libraries) Newsletter, covering the year 1998. Each issue of the newsletter includes some or all of the following sections: "Current Issues," reports from the Coalition for Networked Information and the Office of Scholarly Communication, Office of Leadership and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Competition, Copyrights, Document Delivery
Pattie, Ling-yuh W., Ed.; Cox, Bonnie Jean, Ed. – 1996
This book is a baseline guide for professionals and library school students on issues that concern the selection and bibliographic control of electronic resources, from both conceptual and pragmatic standpoints. The book includes the following articles: (1) "Foreward" (Lois Mai Chan); (2) "Introduction" (Ling-yuh W. (Miko)…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Authority Control (Information), Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records
