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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
Sutton, 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
Kassanke, Stephan; El-Saddik, Abdulmotaleb; Steinacker, Achim – 2001
Information technology and the Internet are making inroads into almost all areas of society. The requirements of students and professionals are fast changing, and the information society requires lifelong learning in practically all areas, especially those related to information technologies. The educational sector can profit in particular from…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
Johnson, Ian – 2003
TimeMap is a unique integration of database management, metadata and interactive maps, designed to contextualise and deliver cultural data through maps. TimeMap extends conventional maps with the time dimension, creating and animating maps "on-the-fly"; delivers them as a kiosk application or embedded in Web pages; links flexibly to…
Descriptors: Animation, Cultural Images, Culture, Database Design
Allert, Heidrun; Dhraief, Hadhami; Kunze, Tobias; Nejdl, Wolfgang; Richter, Christoph – 2002
This paper presents and discusses the evolution of a metadata-based course portal, the Open Learning Repository (OLR). Different instructional models and learning principles are integrated in order to meet different learning and teaching strategies: different metadata models (domain model, instructional model, cooperative and structural model) are…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Content, Distance Education, Educational Principles
Middleton, Michael – 1999
Supervision of library digitization is the focus of this paper. First outlined are the definition, formalization, implementation, and completion phases of project management. Descriptions of management decisions involved in digitization projects follow on matters such as: collection analysis, resourcing, project personnel, production, access and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Rogers, Diane – Cataloguing Australia, 1997
One of the recent innovations attempting to catalog Internet resources is a standard for resource description called the Dublin Core metadata set. Discussion includes application of library standards; development of metadata elements; ongoing refinement of the elements; and applying the Dublin Core. (AEF)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Information Policy, Information Sources
Neville, Lindy – Cataloguing Australia, 1997
Examines some of the incentives behind cataloging on the Internet. Discusses the Dublin Core metadata elements set which attempts to apply traditional cataloging practices to new technologies. Looks at the practicalities of such a system, including three obvious benefits to mapping Dublin Core elements to MARC fields. (AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Information Retrieval, Information Sources
O'Neill, Edward T.; Lavoie, Brian F.; Bennett, Rick; Staples, Thornton; Wayland, Ross; Payette, Sandra; Dekkers, Makx; Weibel, Stuart; Searle, Sam; Thompson, Dave; Rudner, Lawrence M. – D-Lib Magazine, 2003
Includes five articles that examine key trends in the development of the public Web: size and growth, internationalization, and metadata usage; Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora) for use in digital libraries; developments in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI); the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Development, Information Technology, International Cooperation
Oder, Norman – Library Journal, 1998
Discusses possibilities for cataloging Internet resources and the role that the library profession can play. Topics include the Dublin Core metadata; public library projects (Michigan Electronic Library "MEL" and Librarians' Index to the Internet "LII"); academic library projects (INFOMINE, Scout Report); commercial sites…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Peer reviewedBrasethvik, Terje – Internet Research, 1998
Explores problems in information sharing; discusses the concept of metadata; illustrates its use on the World Wide Web, as well as other related approaches; and presents an approach to information sharing that uses a semantic modeling language (referent model language) as the basis for expressing semantics of information and designing metadata…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software Development, Information Dissemination, Information Science
Baker, Thomas – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
Focusing on languages for the Dublin Core, examines the experience of some related ways to seek semantic interoperability through simplicity: planned languages, interlingua constructs, and pidgins. Also defines the conceptual and organizational problem of maintaining a metadata standard in multiple languages. (AEF)
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Computational Linguistics, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer System Design
Peer reviewedPeraya, Daniel; Levrat, Bernard – Educational Media International, 1999
Discussion of the development of distance education in Switzerland focuses on a history of the Swiss Virtual Campus and an explanation of the role of the Educational Technologies Unit of the University of Geneva (TECFA). Topics include the integration of information technologies, teacher training, and the management of metadata. Contains 35…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries
Developing Organized Information Displays for Voluminous Works: A Study of User Clustering Behavior.
Peer reviewedCarlyle, Allyson – Information Processing & Management, 2001
Investigates ways in which people group or categorize documents associated with a voluminous work to guide the construction of organized displays for information retrieval systems. Discusses results of cluster analyses based on "A Christmas Carol" (Charles Dickens) and suggests implications for metadata standards and digital libraries as…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Cluster Analysis, Display Systems
Peer reviewedGoodrum, Abby; Spink, Amanda – Information Processing & Management, 2001
Examines visual information needs as expressed in users' Web image queries on the Excite search engine. Discusses metadata; content-based image retrieval; user interaction with images; terms per query; term frequency; and implications for the development of models for visual information retrieval and for the design of Web search engines.…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Design Requirements, Information Needs, Information Retrieval
