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Today we’ve launched some new ways to display relationships between works. The concept covers works that contain other works, or are contained by them. It also covers retellings, abridgments, parodies, commentaries on and so forth. Thus, LibraryThing members will be able to add relationships that show:
gets work-to-work relationships! « The LibraryThing Blog
Welcome to the Steve Project Steve is a collaboration of museum professionals and others who believe that social tagging may provide profound new ways to describe and access cultural heritage collections and encourage visitor engagement with collection objects. Our activities include researching social tagging and museum collections; developing open source software tools for tagging collections and managing tags; and engaging in discussion and outreach with members of the community who are interested in implementing social tagging for their own collections. Steve as Research The project team is engaged in systematic research into how social tagging can best serve the museum community and its visitors. Our current research project , “T3: Text, Tags, Trust,” a partnership with the University of Maryland’s School, is funded, in part, by a National Leadership Grant for Research from the U.S.
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XML Schemas to support the Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core Metadata in XML
XML Schemas provide a means for defining the structure of XML documents, including metadata. XML Schema is a specification developed and maintained under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium. More information is available at http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema . See Notes on the W3C XML Schemas for Qualified Dublin Core for a description of the set of W3C XML Schemas which implement the XML encoding conventions described in Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML of 2 April 2003. These XML Schemas support the XML format described in Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML, version 2 April 2003 , for the terms defined in DCMI Metadata Terms, version 14 January 2008 . Simple DC XML schema, version 2002-12-12
It is impossible these days to read a library journal, attend a library conference, or even have an informal chat with other librarians without hearing the phrases "MARC format," "MARC records," or "MARC-compatible." Many library professionals have not had an opportunity to take formal courses explaining the important topics of library automation and the role of MARC, yet automated library systems may be important parts of their libraries. This booklet will explain -- in the simplest terms possible -- what a MARC record is, and it will provide the basic information needed to understand and evaluate a MARC record. Machine-readable: "Machine-readable" means that one particular type of machine, a computer, can read and interpret the data in the cataloging record. The following pages will explain why this is important and how it is made possible. Cataloging record: "Cataloging record" means a bibliographic record, or the information traditionally shown on a catalog card.
Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Parts 1 to 6
Listed below are the letters and titles of the main classes of the Library of Congress Classification. Click on any class to view an outline of its subclasses. The complete text of the classification schedules in printed volumes may be purchased from the Cataloging Distribution Service . Online access to the complete text of the schedules is available in Classification Web, a subscription product that may also be purchased from the Cataloging Distribution Service.
Library of Congress Classification Outline - Classification - Cataloging and Acquisitions (Library of Congress)
Physical characteristics describe a work's appearance and the characteristics of its physical form. Metadata elements addressed here include Measurements, Materials and Techniques, and State and Edition. Additional elements are discussed as Additional Physical Characteristics and may be required by museums and collecting institutions, but typically will not be needed by visual resources collections. This chapter does not deal with the physical characteristics of the surrogate visual image. Visual resources collections, however, will typically require fields to document such information for surrogates as administrative metadata rather than descriptive metadata. Measurements
Cataloging Cultural Objects
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an open organization, incorporated in Singapore as a public, not-for-profit Company limited by Guarantee (registration number 200823602C), supporting innovation in metadata design and best practices across a broad range of purposes and business models. You can learn more about metadata and DCMI by exploring the pages listed in the menu bar above: the Home page , Metadata Basics , Specifications , Community and Events , and About Us (this page). Mission and Principles The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative provides core metadata vocabularies in support of interoperable solutions for discovering and managing resources. Supporting a worldwide community of people working with metadata to share experiences and find common solutions through collaborative tools, publications and meetings
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I was doing a bit of last-minute refurbishment of my Honors seminar syllabus last week, trying to see if there were new books or articles on particular topics or themes that I might have overlooked. I had also reorganized the syllabus somewhat and had one week that was a conceptual oddball of sorts, organized around a somewhat diffuse view of the causes of colonialism in Africa that is starting to be a major part of my current manuscript, and I was hunting for older materials that I might stitch together to explain my perspective. Using our library’s catalogue, Tripod , I was both impressed at how generally strong our collection is for a small liberal-arts college (shared with Bryn Mawr and Haverford) and frustrated at just how useless a typical electronic catalogue has become.Namespace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In general, a namespace is a container for a set of identifiers ( names ), and allows the disambiguation of homonym identifiers residing in different namespaces. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] . Namespaces usually group names based on their functionality. [ edit ] Naming System A name in a namespace consists of a namespace identifier and a local name. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The namespace name is usually applied as a prefix to the local name. Namespaces allow delegation of identifier assignment to multiple name issuing organisation whilst retaining global uniqueness [ 5 ] .
XML namespaces are used for providing uniquely named elements and attributes in an XML document. They are defined in a W3C recommendation . [ 1 ] An XML instance may contain element or attribute names from more than one XML vocabulary. If each vocabulary is given a namespace , the ambiguity between identically named elements or attributes can be resolved.
XML namespace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I. Introduction The rapid changes in the means of information access occasioned by the emergence of the World Wide Web have spawned an upheaval in the means of describing and managing information resources. Metadata is a primary tool in this work, and an important link in the value chain of knowledge economies. Yet there is much confusion about how metadata should be integrated into information systems. How is it to be created or extended?
Metadata Principles and Practicalities
A Metadata Registry for the Semantic Web
Abstract The Semantic Web activity is a W3C project whose goal is to enable a 'cooperative' Web where machines and humans can exchange electronic content that has clear-cut, unambiguous meaning. This vision is based on the automated sharing of metadata terms across Web applications.While the various institutions of cultural heritage—libraries, archives, museums—may orient themselves toward the service of different purposes (for libraries, information access; for archives, preservation of information as evidence of the creator’s activities; for museums, research and education of culturally significant artifacts), they work toward these goals via similar means: they design collections. All these institutions select artifacts to reside in their holdings, develop sophisticated systems for describing these artifacts, and create access mechanisms through which patrons can obtain either the artifacts themselves or the information that describes them, or both. Across the cultural heritage landscape, there has been growing recognition that the composition, structure, and description of these collections creates an interpretive frame through which each item in the assembled group obtains a contextualized meaning.