Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DCMI)
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Invited Paper: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Dealing With NZGLS Development Issues
No full textThis paper summarises key development issues encountered with the New Zealand Government’s discovery level metadata standard, NZGLS. In particular, it discusses the need for governments to be able to support discovery of services, and the range of standards which affect the development of a Dublin Core based discovery metadata set
Mixing and Mapping Metadata to Provide Integrated Access to Digital Library Collections: An Activity Report
No full textThis paper provides a report of work in progress to implement integrated access to multiple digital collections that are described using a variety of metadata formats. Using the emerging resource discovery and digital library management system, ENCompass, a team at Cornell University Library is experimenting with a new discovery system model. The model uses simple, "pidgin" metadata at the collection management level, but combines this simple layer with other metadata for describing specific resources, to enable users not only to discover relevant collections, but also to conduct deep searches. The authors frame their ENCompass activity report to illustrate the principle of modularity–as described by Lagoze–in which a metadata format tailored for simplicity (Dublin Core) is used alongside other, more complex metadata formats
Evaluation and Design Issues of Nordic DC Metadata Creation Tool
No full textThis paper presents results from the analysis of data collected during a 3-year user-oriented longitudinal and empirical on-line evaluation of the use of the Dublin Core metadata creation tool within the Nordic DC Metadata Project. The paper is concerned with how humans create metadata. In particular, the paper explores different categories of requirements. The evaluation is part of an on-going design process of the metadata creation tool and inform on valuable issues to be considered in the future design process
Metia–A Generalized Metadata Driven Framework for the Management and Distribution of ElectronicMedia
No full textThe Metia Framework defines a set of standard, open and portable models, interfaces, and protocols facilitating the construction of tools and environments optimized for the management, referencing, distribution, storage, and retrieval of electronic media; as well as a set of core software components (agents) providing functions and services relating to archival, versioning, access control, search, retrieval, conversion, navigation, and metadata management
Multilingual Access to Dublin Core Metadata of ULIS Library
No full textWith the recent Internet expansion, persons all over the world can access more and more document databases. As Unicode has become more popular, the environment for multilingual retrieval has been improved to some extent. However, there are still numerous problems to be solved, such as the multilingual input and display. This paper proposes a system for retrieving ULIS Japanese metadata. The system provides convenience for the overseas users for multilingual access by solving these problems and by indicating candidates for translated words and Boolean queries based on the statistics of the system's behavior
zetoc: a Dublin Core Based Current Awareness Service
No full textzetoc is a current awareness service for UK Higher and Further Education providing Z39.50 access to the British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents database of journal articles and conference papers. The zetoc database, updated daily, may also be searched via a World Wide Web interface. An alerting service provides tables of contents by email for new journal issues when they are loaded. The current version of zetoc is Z39.50 Bath Profile compliant and can provide Dublin Core records encoded in XML in answer to Z39.50 search requests. An enhanced version of zetoc, currently a prototype under development, will hold the data within an XML repository, using Dublin Core as the basis of the metadata schema. This paper describes the encoding of bibliographic records for journal articles and conference papers in Dublin Core, and the interoperability between Dublin Core and other bibliographic standards
Management of Environmental Information in the European Information and Observation Network (EIONET)
No full textThe reporting system of the European Environment Agency (EEA) depends on an integrated data flow, driven by the need for indicator data. EEA aims at streamlining this effort by establishing the ReportNet structure. It is the vision of a shared European Environmental Information Infrastructure, used by many networks, furthering standardised data interchange formats and communication protocols. The paper discusses the EEA data flow and reporting system and presents ReportNet as a strategy to integrate both. ReportNet, the EEA's electronic reporting network, is based on an integrated metadata management system, using DCES as the backbone for content description. It consist of 7 building blocks. The paper focusses on the data dictionary and the registry as the two central metadata management units, with the content being listed in a registry and the data and management elements registered in a dictionary. By automatically generating individual namespaces for each element on the fly and allowing for free combination of these to composites, the system guarantees maximum flexibility, demanded by the heterogeneity of the environmental domain. It is the diversity of this domain that inhibits the generation of a generic environmental namespace as a general tool for management of environmental information resources and data.
The technical architecture is based on SOAP and XML with individual services being implement in JAVA
RDF Declarative Description (RDD): A Language for Metadata
No full textRDF Declarative Description (RDD) is a metadata modeling language which extends RDF(S) expressiveness by provision of generic means for succinct and uniform representation of metadata, their relationships, rules and axioms. Through its expressive mechanism, RDD can directly represent all RDF-based languages such as OIL and DAML-family markup languages (e.g., DAML+OIL and DAML-S), and hence allows their intended meanings to be determined directly without employment of other formalisms. Therefore, RDD readily enables interchangeability, interoperability as well as integrability of metadata applications, developed independently by different communities and exploiting different schemas and languages. Moreover, RDD is also equipped with computation and query-processing mechanisms
A Metadata Case Study for the FRBR Model Based on Chinese Painting and Calligraphy at the National Palace Museum in Taipei
No full textIn 1998, the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model which is composed by four entities ( work, expression, manifestation and item) and their associative relationships ( primary, responsibility and subject) , was proposed by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). The FRBR model can be deployed as a logical framework for proceeding metadata analysis and developing metadata format. This paper presents a case study of the National Palace Museum (NPM) in Taipei to examine the feasibility of the FRBR model. With the diversified needs from various content communities, an analysis model is introduced at Academia Sinica to refine and enhance the FRBR model, in order to meet metadata requirements across diverse knowledge domains, which is composed of three facets ( function, subject domain, data type and style)and one supportive community layer
Author-generated Dublin Core Metadata for Web Resources: A Baseline Study in an Organization
No full textThis paper reports on a study that examined the ability of resource authors to create acceptable metadata in an organizational setting. The results indicate that authors can create good quality metadata when working with the Dublin Core, and that is in some cases they may be able to create metadata that is of better quality than what a metadata professional can produce. This research suggests that authors think metadata is valuable for resource discovery, that it should be created for web resources, and that they, as authors, should be involved in metadata production for their works. The study also indicates that a simple web form, with textual guidance and selective use of features (e.g., popup windows, drop-down menus, etc.) can assist authors in generating good quality metadata