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Epstein, Steven L. – Syllabus, 2003
Discusses the growing world of the digital library movement, describes a number of ongoing digital projects, and focuses on the Digital Library Federation (DLF), a consortium of libraries and agencies that are pioneering the use of electronic information technologies to extend collections and services. Topics include access to rare books;…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Consortia, Electronic Libraries, Information Technology
Peer reviewedShreeves, Sarah L.; Kaczmarek, Joanne S.; Cole, Timothy W. – Library Hi Tech, 2003
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign undertook a project to test the efficacy of using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting to construct a search and discovery service focused on information resources in the domain of cultural heritage. Provides an overview of the Illinois project, with quantitative data about…
Descriptors: Archives, Culture, Data Collection, Electronic Libraries
Peer reviewedProm, Christopher J. – Library Hi Tech, 2003
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting program presents a method by which metadata regarding archives and manuscripts can be shared and made more interoperable with metadata from other sources. Outlines a method for exposing hierarchical metadata from encoded archival description (EAD) files and assesses some…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Harvesting, Information Services
Peer reviewedSuleman, Hussein; Fox, Edward A. – Library Hi Tech, 2003
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), supports the production and archiving of electronic theses and dissertations. While working with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) to develop and test the metadata harvesting standard, the authors set up and actively maintain a central NDLTD metadata collection and multiple user…
Descriptors: Archives, Doctoral Dissertations, Electronic Libraries, Harvesting
Peer reviewedSilverstein, Joanne – Knowledge Quest, 2003
Explains the digital reference service AskNSDL that was developed for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). Discusses tools used to design the service, including QABuilder software; QuIP (Question Interchange Profile) metadata format standard; GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials) cataloging tool; and the AskERIC question and answer…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Software, Electronic Libraries, Library Services
Nanfito, Michael – Information Outlook, 1999
Describes the development of Java-based software to use controlled vocabularies and subject headings in the cataloging of Web-based HTML articles on a subject-specific legal resources Web site. Topics include requirements for cataloging and for searching; data structure; software required; and metadata with Dublin Core requirements. (LRW)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Software, Computer Software Development, Indexing
Buckland, Michael; Chen, Aitao; Chen, Hui-Min; Kim, Youngin; Lam, Byron; Larson, Ray; Norgard, Barbara; Purat, Jacek; Gey, Frederic – D-Lib Magazine, 1999
Reports on work at the University of California, Berkeley, on the design and development of English-language indices to metadata vocabularies. Discusses the significance of unfamiliar metadata and describes the Entry Vocabulary Module which helps searchers to be more effective and increases the return on the original investment in generating…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Classification, Indexes, Indexing
Peer reviewedDempsey, Lorcan; Heery, Rachel – Journal of Documentation, 1998
Describes emerging metadata practice and standards. Gives an overview of the environments in which metadata is used, before focusing on metadata for information resources. Outlines an approximate typology of approaches and explores different strands of metadata activity. Discusses trends in format development, metadata management, and use of…
Descriptors: Information Management, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Information Sources
Peer reviewedSchwartz, Candy – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1998
Looks briefly at the history of World Wide Web search engine development and considers the current state of affairs. Reflects on future directions in terms of personalization, summarization, query expansion, coverage, and metadata. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Development, Information Networks, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
Beebe, Caroline – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 2000
This planned session discusses access to digital multimedia objects; integrated intellectual access, resource discovery, finding aids, and cross-domain metadata among museum, archive, and library information systems; information sharing; electronic access to a historic costume collection; access to digital music libraries; and digital…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Information Systems, Library Collections
Miller, Paul; Sweet, Meg; Thomas, David; Dunn, Heather; Pearce, Judith; Brack, E. V.; Palmer, David; Robinson, Bridget; Powell, Andy; Heaney, Michael; Dempsey, Lorcan – D-Lib Magazine, 2000
These six articles discuss collection level descriptions. Highlights include cross-domain issues; archive standards and automation issues; museum considerations, including metadata and Web pages, based on the Canadian Heritage Information Network; data standards for directories; electronic libraries in the United Kingdom; and the Research…
Descriptors: Archives, Cataloging, Directories, Electronic Libraries
Peer reviewedCohen, Sara; Kanza, Yaron; Kogan, Yakov; Sagiv, Yehoshua; Nutt, Werner; Serebrenik, Alexander – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Describes EquiX, a search language for XML that combines querying with searching to query the data and the meta-data content of Web pages. Topics include search engines; a data model for XML documents; search query syntax; search query semantics; an algorithm for evaluating a query on a document; and indexing EquiX queries. (LRW)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Evaluation Methods, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedHill, Linda L.; Janee, Greg; Dolin, Ron; Frew, James; Larsgaard, Mary – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Defines digital library collections and outlines two classes of collection metadata. Describes the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Project approach to collection metadata, including the ADL system architecture and collection guidelines and the format and use of the ADL collection metadata. Appendices include ADL collection metadata and example.…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Electronic Libraries, Information Management
Direct linkDerntl, Michael; Motschnig-Pitrik, Renate – Internet and Higher Education, 2005
Recently, much e-learning research has been devoted to producing e-content, describing it with metadata, and to constructing e-learning systems. Considerably less attention has been paid to integrating technology to improve the learning process in terms of depth and scope. In this paper, that gap is filled by considering learning support from a…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Educational Principles, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods
Reese, Terry – Computers in Libraries, 2004
This article features MarcEdit, a free, Windows-based, metadata editing software suite that is developed and supported by the author as part of his contribution to the library profession. MarcEdit Suite is a tool that helps one with MARC coding and conversion and to perform database cleanups, to generate temporary electronic journal holdings, or…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Metadata, Electronic Journals, Academic Libraries
