Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DCMI)
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How Portable Are the Metadata Standards for Scientific Data? A Proposal for a Metadata Infrastructure
No full textThe one-covers-all approach in current metadata standards for scientific data has
serious limitations in keeping up with the ever-growing data and being built as part of a metadata
infrastructure. This paper reports the preliminary findings from a survey to metadata standards in
the scientific data domain and argues for the need for a metadata infrastructure. The survey collected
4400+ unique elements from 16 standards and categorized these elements into 9 categories. Preliminary
findings from the data include inconsistent naming of elements across standards, a fraction of
single-word element names, and varying linguistic forms of elements. The limitations of large,
complex standards and widely varied naming practices are the major hurdles for building a metadata
infrastructure. The paper articulated the three principles for metadata infrastructure: the least
effort principle is the premise on which the metadata infrastructure argument operates; being portable
is the essential condition or prerequisite for metadata schemes to be “infrastructurized” – a word
coined to denote the state of being built into or as part of the infrastructure; and the infrastructure
service principle means that metadata elements, vocabularies, entities, and other metadata artifacts
are established as the underlying foundation upon which the tools and applications as well as functions
of metadata services are built
Linked Data Driven Dynamic Web Services for Providing Multilingual Access to Diverse Japanese Humanities Databases
No full textSeveral cultural domain resources in different languages have become available as
Linked Open Data (LOD) in the last few years. However, there is little re-use of this data in multilingual
information retrieval applications. The paper discusses Linked Data driven approaches in providing integrated
multilingual access to diverse Japanese humanities databases by linking and re-using LOD resources dynamically.
It proposes a method, which dynamically generates links across databases using Linked Data when a user performs
a search using keywords. We built a prototype information retrieval system based on LOD resources, personal
names authority data, subject headings, and links to other Linked Data resources. Furthermore, we demonstrate
how this approach is integrated in real-life retrieval systems and how linking and accessing diverse databases
can be enhanced to make use of the available LOD resources. The proposed method also enables to access multiple
databases in different languages by using the notations in various languages, which were obtained from the
authority data resources. It allows to access to additional data not only in Japanese databases but also
multilingual databases in other countries without depending on languages and formats of each database
Planning a Platform for Learning Linked Data
No full textThis poster describes a project under development to create an online environment
in support of students and professionals in libraries, museums, and archives for learning the principles
and practices of Linked Data. The environment envisioned includes instructional resources for personal
study and use as supporting learning resources in formal and informal teaching and training. The project
will work at the intersection of a number of current threads in support for anytime, anywhere teaching
and learning: (1) the rapid develop of instructional components in the form of microtutorials as seen
in the Kahn Academy; and (2) the developing focus in education on organization of learning resources
based on the competencies and learning outcomes those resources enable. The project will build on the
outcomes of a one-year planning grant from IMLS to engage educators, trainers, technologists and
application developers in envisioning such an environment
Integration of Research Data and Research Data Links into Library Catalogues
No full textprototype features links between publications and underlying Traditionally,
research data and publications are held in separate systems. This results in a disadvantageous
situation for researchers as they need to use a variety of different systems to find relevant
information about a topic. We therefore face the challenge to overcome the boundaries between
bibliographic records and research data by providing an integrated search environment for publications
and research data. Because of the inherently different system structure and the diverse metadata for
publications and datasets respectively, one type of data cannot easily be integrated into information
systems for the other data type. We present the challenges that arise when adapting a bibliographic
library system to include the additional data and give recommendations for an efficient implementation.
By presenting our enhanced prototype, we show the applicability and practicability of our proposed
solutions. Since our library catalogue research datasets, we provide direct access to research data
metadata stored in remote research data repositories and thus connect both types of information systems
Collaborate, Automate, Prepare, Prioritize: Creating Metadata for Legacy Research Data
No full textData curation projects frequently deal with data that were not created for the
purposes of long-term preservation and re-use. How can curation of such legacy data be improved by
supplying necessary metadata? In this report, we address this and other questions by creating robust
metadata for twenty legacy research datasets. We report on quantitative and qualitative metrics of
creating domain-specific metadata and propose a four-prong framework of metadata creation for legacy
research data. Our findings indicate that there is a steep learning curve in encoding metadata using
the FGDC content standard for digital geospatial metadata. Our project also demonstrates that data
curators who are handed research data “as is” and are tasked with incorporating such data into a
data sharing environment can be very successful in creating descriptive metadata -- particularly,
in conducting subject analysis and assigning keywords based on controlled vocabularies and thesauri.
At the same time, they need to be aware of limitations in their efforts when it comes to structural
and administrative metadata
The Research of Open Conference Resources Organization based on RDA Description
No full textWith the academic exchanges evolving, the internet is flooded with a great quantity
of conference information, proceedings and conference literatures. Due to the distribution and the quality
uneven of these Open Conference and Resources (OCR), it's hard to use these information sufficiently.
Therefore, Chengdu Branch of National Science Library of Chinese Academic Science (CBNSLCAS) implements
Acquisition and Service System of Open Conference Resources (ASOCR)[1] to gather these resources
efficiently. However, in order to relate the OCR to each other and show resource content efficiently,
proper resource description models are required. Under the circumstances, the paper describes the
characteristics of OCR, resource organizing modes and described contents. Furthermore, the paper
proposes OCR description model based on Resource Description and Access (RDA). And compared with
OCR description model based on Dublin Core (DC), RDA description model may be more fit for describing
complex relations of OCR in the ASOCR. The program determined the entity and entity relationship.
At the end of this paper, future work is discussed
Metadata Capital in a Data Repository
No full textThis paper reports on a study using collaborative modeling and content analysis
methods for examine metadata reuse--as a form of metadata capital. A sample of 20 cases for two workflows,
identified Case A and Case B, captured 100 instantiations (60 metadata objects, 40 metadata activities).
Results indicate that Dryad's overall workflow has a substantial amount of metadata reuse, with 10 of
the 12 metadata properties demonstrating metadata capital via reuse at 70% or greater. Metadata reuse
was common for basic verbal properties such as, author, title, subject, and it was lacking--and in some
cases non-existent--for more complex verbal properties, such as taxon, spatial, and temporal information,
as well numerical or identifier properties such as date.issued, and dc.identifer.citation. System design
priority areas are identified to promote the generation of more accurate metadata earlier in the metadata
workflow. Contributions for studying metadata capital are also discussed
Using Metadata Standards to Improve IMF and National Data
No full textThis poster illustrates how metadata standardization in the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) leads to an improvement in the quality of statistical information and a better understanding
of data and metadata by users. It enables a more efficient and faster exchange of information at lower
costs, which is made possible as a result of collaboration with member countries and other international
organizations. Metadata standardization leads to greater efficiencies and lower costs in global exchange
and internal production of data. Use of metadata standards enhances the accountability of countries for
providing quality information about their economy and improves the understanding of data by users. The
IMF experience, as outlined in this abstract, demonstrates how metadata standards have resulted in faster,
cheaper and more consistent production and dissemination of data
Towards the Representation of Chinese Traditional Music: A State of the Art Review of Music Metadata Standards
No full textThis paper examines existing metadata standards for describing music related
information in the context of Chinese music tradition. With most research attention focussing on
n music, research into computational methods and knowledge representation for world music is still
in its infancy. Following the introduction of symbolic elements in the Chinese traditional system,
a comparison between these elements and the expressiveness of some prevailing metadata models and
standards including Semantic Web ontologies is presented
Achieving Interoperability between the CARARE Schema for Monuments and Sites and the Europeana Data Model
No full textMapping between different data models in a data aggregation context always
presents significant interoperability challenges. In this paper, we describe the challenges
faced and solutions developed when mapping the CARARE schema designed for archaeological and
architectural monuments and sites to the Europeana Data Model (EDM), a model based on Linked
Data principles, for the purpose of integrating more than two million metadata records from
national monument collections and databases across Europe into the Europeana digital library