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Arambura Cabo, Maria Jose; Berlanga Llavori, Rafael – Information Processing & Management, 1997
Presents a new application for retrieving news from a large electronic bank of newspapers that is intended to manage past issues of newspapers. Highlights include a data model for newspapers, including metadata and metaclasses; document definition language; document retrieval language; and memory organization and indexes. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Indexes, Information Retrieval, Information Technology
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
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
Ragon, Bart – Computers in Libraries, 2003
Describes work at the University of Virginia library to digitize special collections. Discusses the use of XML (Extensible Markup Language); providing access to original source materials; DTD (Document Type Definition); TEI (Text Encoding Initiative); metadata; XSL (Extensible Style Language); and future possibilities. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Futures (of Society)
Tenopir, Carol – Library Journal, 2002
Describes the digitization projects being undertaken by publishers to provide long runs of back issues of newspapers and journal articles, and the necessary indexing tools, to meet the need for older materials. Discusses search capabilities, links, the addition of metadata, and usage statistics. (LRW)
Descriptors: Databases, Indexing, Metadata, Newspapers
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
Friedlander, Amy; Duval, Erik; Hodgins, Wayne; Sutton, Stuart; Weibel, Stuart L.; McClelland, Marilyn; McArthur, David; Giersch, Sarah; Geisler, Gary; Hodgkin, Adam – D-Lib Magazine, 2002
Includes 6 articles that discuss the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program at the Library of Congress; metadata in digital libraries; integrated reference services on the Web. (LRW)
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Library Services, Metadata
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Fast, 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
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
Muramatsu, Brandon; Agogino, Alice M.; Van de Sompel, Herbert; Hochstenbach, Patrick; Weibel, Stuart; Patrikalakis, Nicholas M.; Fortier, Paul J.; Ioannidis, Yannis E.; Nikolaou, Christos N.; Robinson, Allan R.; Rossignac, Jarek R.; Vinacua, Alvar; Abrams, Stephen L. – D-Lib Magazine, 1999
Describes NEEDS (National Engineering Education Delivery System), a distributed server architecture developed to enable new pedagogical models based on Internet-mediated learning environments; linking solutions for electronic library services; Dublin Core updates citing relationship to other metadata efforts; and the computational, structural and…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Assisted Instruction, Electronic Libraries, Engineering Education
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Sutton, 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)
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Jizba, Laurel – Journal of Internet Cataloging, 1997
Examines the traditional, historical applications of abstracts and summary notes by individual authors in typical databases in order to assess and develop applications for Internet information retrieval. Highlights include information seeking; guidelines for writers; models of abstracts and summary notes; metadata; and Internet standards,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Cataloging, Databases, Guidelines
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Beagle, Donald – Information Technology and Libraries, 1999
Discusses the potential for visualization of metadata and metadata-based surrogates, including a command interface for metadata viewing, site mapping and data aggregation tools, dynamic derivation of surrogates, and a reintroduction of transient hypergraphs from the tradition of cocitation networking. Addresses digital library research into…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Oriented Programs, Information Networks, Information Processing
Kalisky, Lorin David – Syllabus, 2000
Discusses digital video management and archiving issues, including processing power; software for browsing, searching, and indexing; media servers to handle streams; storage solutions; metadata; large file sizes; organizational issues; rights management issues, including licensing; and cataloging options, including segmentation of individual…
Descriptors: Archives, Cataloging, Computer Software, Futures (of Society)
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