Dominican University
Graduate School of Library and Information Science


Last updated September 01, 2010
 

LIS 882                                                                                                                                                   G. Koh
Metadata for Internet Resources                                                                                                      Fall 2010

Gertrude S. Koh
Office: Crown 324
E-Mail: kohgsl@email.dom.edu
Phone: (708) 524-6867
http://domin.dom.edu/faculty/kohgsl/index.htm
 

Office Hours:

M: 3:30-4:30

  W:  Noon-1:00

Th: 3:30-4:30 (except Nov. 4)

Other times by appointments

 

The syllabus is subject to modification.
This syllabus is to be used for reference purposes only; consult your instructor for any changes or updates!

Catalog Description of the course:

This seminar style course will provide a comprehensive and practical understanding of cataloging Internet resources--from selection and collection management to cataloging/ classification and catalog maintenance. It will explore cataloging complements and alternatives: TEI headers, EAD, metadata, and Web pages. It will study the underlying concepts of these approaches and their implementation. With a view toward the future, the boundaries of new technology applications will be pushed and explored by examining automated metadata record creation, subject analysis, and classification.

Prerequisite: LIS 703

Course Goal:

The goal of this course is to help students apply the knowledge and skills of cataloging and classification, along with other metadata schema, to effectively access and efficiently manage Internet-accessible resources.

Course Objectives:

  • Will obtain the knowledge of different types and natures of information on the Internet as well as the attempts at organizing such information.
  • Will appreciate the logical structure rooted in a catalog by attempting to search the Internet efficiently and effectively through utilization of various search tools for Internet resources.
  • Will understand the importance of integrating all sources of information in a catalog by evaluating and selecting Web resources for selected groups of users [i.e., user groups such as K-12, medical, legal, public, corporate, academic, archives, museum, etc.].
  • Will gain perspectives, knowledge and skills of a variety of metadata schema, including cataloging and classifying, for Web resources for selected groups of users in a variety of environments [i.e., user groups such as K-12, medical, legal, public, corporate, academic, archives, museum, etc.].
  • Will examine the complexity of the new information environment and the contributions libraries and librarians can make to facilitate effective access to electronic resources online and on the Internet.

 

Teaching Methods:


The course will be taught via lectures (including guest lectures in class and site visits), field trips, assigned readings, small group teamwork, exercises, and project reports and discussions. You are expected to lead the discussion for one class meeting. The following readings will prepare you to be a discussion leader:

Haynes, Cynthia. "Leading Effective Class Discussions." School of Arts and Humanities at UT Dallas. (Web Site) http://ah.utdallas.edu/rhetoric/tips/discussions.html

Koeller, David W.. "Leading a Class Discussion." Then Again.... 2005. http://www.thenagain.info/Classes/Basics/LeadingDiscussion.html

"Leading Discussion." an excerpt from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Center at Columbia University (Web Site) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/tat/handout18.html

 

Before you come to the first class (checklist):

·         Create Blackboard account and join class

·         Introduce yourself on the Blackboard Forum

·         Obtain textbooks

·         Read the first reading assignment

 

The Course Blackboard is at URL:  http://blackboard.dom.edu/ .

Schedule of Topics:

Class 1: 

 

-- Introduction to expectations

-- Understanding the Net and the knowledge ecosystem

-- Evaluating Internet Resources and Information

-- Types of Internet Resources

 

Intellectual access for networked resources

-- Internet search tools

-- Library access: catalogs, A&I services, web sites

 

Reading: Please be prepared to address class meeting topics above and discuss them by sharing a few (three or four) points which you find interesting, new and pertinent to the topics.

 

Berners-Lee , Tim (May 1990) “Information Management: A Proposal.” http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

 

Ray, Kate (May 2010) Web 3.0 (14:24)

http://vimeo.com/11529540

 

Nunberg, George. (August 31, 2009) “Google’s Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars,” The Chronicle of Higher Education.  http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Book-Search-A/48245/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en [See also G. Nunberg’ (2009, August 29) “Google books: A metadata train wreck,” Language log [blog]. Retrieved August 30, 2010 from http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1701]

 

Intner, Sheila S., Susan S. Lazinger, and Jean Weihs.  Metadata and Its Impact on Libraries. “Impact of Digital Resources on Library Services,” p. 225-233; “Future Possibilities,” p. 235-239.

 

Haynes, David.  “Information Retrieval,” Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval.  p. 80-100.

 

Clifford A. Lynch. (January/February 2008) "Repatriation, Reconstruction, and Cultural Diplomacy in the Digital World," EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 1. http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/RepatriationReconstructio/45831

 

Dempsey, Lorcan. (Feb. 2008) “ Reconfiguring the Library Systems Environment,” portal: Libraries and the Academy. E-print available online at: http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/archive/2008/dempsey-portal.pdf

 

Dempsey, Lorcan. (Jan. 2009).  Always on: Libraries in a world of permanent connectivity.  First Monday, 14(1).

 http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2291/2070

 

* Please also read two additional readings from the following list (OR your own substitution), including the textbook, which address and discuss the above themes by next class meeting:

 

University of California, Berkeley. Library (April 05, 2010).  “Recommended Search Engines.”  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/SearchEngines.html

 

Lynch, Clifford. (March 1997).  “Searching the Internet”. Scientific American, March 1997.

    Available in full text through Academic Source Elite database.

 

Arms, William Y. “The Internet and the World Wide Web," Digital libraries.  Cambridge, Mass., c2000. p. 21-38.  Available at:  http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/DigLib/MS1999/Chapter2.html

 

Mitchell, Anne M. and Brian E. Surratt.  “Online Trends to Watch,” Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources. p. 203-208.

 

Lynch, Clifford (July/August 2005) “Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries,” http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/lynch/07lynch.html 

 

Eversberg, B. (2002-07-16 / rev. 2007-11-29) “On the Theory of Library Catalogs and Search Engines,”

http://www.allegro-c.de/formate/tlcse.htm

 

Lynch, Clifford.  (June 2003)  “Reflections Towards the Development of a “Post-DL” Research Agenda,” for the Post-Digital Libraries Research Futures or Ubiquitous Knowledge Environments, hosted by the National Science Foundation.  http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlwkshop/paper_lynch.html

 

* For next class meeting, please make notes from the readings listed below to answer the following questions:

  • What are search engines?
  • How do search engines work?
  • How do people use search engines?
  • Do search engines obsolete metadata?
  • What are e-communities? How are they formed?
  • What are e-communities’ needs for information? How about their metadata needs?

 

J. Turner’s MetaMap (2004) 

http://mapageweb.umontreal.ca/turner/meta/english/index.html

      [Please see the MetaMap on the office door of Crown 324.]

 

J. Riley’s Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe (July 2010)

http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/seeingstandards.pdf

 

"7.1.7 Navigation via Search Engines."  National Research Council (U.S.). Signposts in Cyberspace: The Domain Name System And Internet Navigation. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 2005. p. 326-335.  http://books.google.com/books?id=VCtKo3koJJIC

 

Doctorow, Cory. "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia." The WELL. 26 Aug 2001.  http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm

 

"iProspect: search engine marketing firm confirms that Internet users ignore websites without top rankings." Search Engine Marketing Firm iProspect. 14 Nov 0002. http://www.iprospect.com/media/press2002_11_14.htm

 

Koster, Martijn. "The Web Robots FAQ." robotstxt.org. p.15. http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/faq.html

 

"Webmaster Help Center: Webmaster Guidelines." Google. (Web Site) http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

 

* Review the following readings required for LIS 703, G. Koh section:

 

Koh, Gertrude (January 2003).  “Libraries, Online Information Systems, and the Internet.” (Available [Online]:  Dominican University Home Page of G. Koh)

http://domin.dom.edu/faculty/kohgsl/lq/index.html

            The following URLs are useful to focus on the Internet history:

                        Robert Hobbes’ Zakon.  (2006?) “Hobbes’ Internet Timeline.”  V8.2

                        http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

                        Internet Society (Feb. 2008).  “All About the Internet”        http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/

 

Class 2:

 

Please attend the following presentation from 6:00 – 7:15 p.m. at the e-Chicago Conference:

Dr. Kathleen Robbins, Jatropha Pepinyè, "Technology and the Community: The Nexus of Energy, Education, the Environment and Economic Development in Rural Haiti."

 

Please reflect on your assumptions on the assigned questions (What are e-communities? How are they formed? What are e-communities’ needs for information? How about their metadata needs?) Are there any changes made to your assumptions? Why are there changes? Be specific.

 

Please consider following topics within the e-communities:

 

Digital libraries and Digital collections

-- Building infrastructure

-- Institutional repositories

-- Digitization and digital preservation

-- Metadata issues

 

Introduction to metadata (1)

-- Metadata overview

-- How MARC is metadata

-- Dublin Core

-- DCMES (http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/)

 

Reading:

 

IFLA manifesto for digital libraries. http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/documents/digital-library-manifesto-en.pdf

 

Intner, Sheila S., Susan S. Lazinger, and Jean Weihs.  Metadata and Its Impact on Libraries. “Digital Collections and Digital Libraries,” p. 177-194; “Archiving and Preserving Digital Materials,” p. 195-223.

 

Zeng, Marcia Lei and Jian Qin. Metadata. Chapter 1, ”Introduction,” p. 3-13. 

 

Understanding Metadata, an introduction to metadata. A free download from the NISO website (www.niso.org).       http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf

 

National Information Standards Organization, (NISO) (3rd ed., 2007) A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections.    http://framework.niso.org/

 

Read the section on Metadata and Metadata Principles.

 

Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger, editors and principal authors. Mountain View, Calif.: Research Libraries Group, 2002

Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial. (February 2003) Online: http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/contents.html

            Read the section on Metadata and Metadata Types.

 

* Please also read two readings from the following list [OR substitute any item with your own choice], which explain and discuss the above themes:

                       

Chan, Lois Mai.  Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction. 3rd ed. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2007.

Chapter 4, Dublin Core and Other Metadata Schemas, p. 115-142;

Chapter 16, MARC Formats and Encoding Schemas, p. 447-479.

           

Haynes, David.  Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval.  “Introduction,” p. 1-19; “Describing and expressing metadata,” p. 20-37; “Management of Information,” p. 101-117.

 

Mitchell, Anne M. and Brian E. Surratt.  “Thinking About the Organization of Digital Resources,” Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources. p. 1-40.

 

Lynch, Clifford. "Digital Collections, Digital Libraries and the Digitization of Cultural Heritage Information." First Monday. Vol.7, no. 5. (May 2002)

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/949/870

 

Caplan, Priscilla.  Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians. “Metadata Basics,” p. 1-11; “Metadata and the Web,” p. 45-53.

 

Duval, Erik et al.  “Metadata Principles and Practicalities, D-Lib magazine, Vol. 8, no. 4, April 2002.  http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/weibel/04weibel.html

 

“Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description” 

http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/

 

“About the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI).”  http://dublincore.org/about/

 

Weibel, Stuart, Jean Godby, Eric Miller and Ron Daniel. 1995. "OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop Report."

http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/metadata.html

 

Greenstein, Daniel, and Suzanne E. Thorin. The Digital Library: A Biography. Washington, D.C.: Digital Library Federation, 2002.  http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub109/pub109.pdf

Read pages 1-32, emphasizing collections rather than general library evolution.

 

Hodge, Gail M.. Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files. Washington, DC: The Digital Library Federation, 2000. http://books.google.com/books?id=FpB8S5uT3xkC Read sections 1 and 4.

 

National Research Council (U.S.). Lc21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 2000.

“Chapter 5, Organizing Intellectual Access to Digital Information: From Cataloging to Metadata” Available online at:

      http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9940&page=122 http://books.nap.edu/html/lc21/ Read chapters 1 and 3.

 

Lombardi, Victor. (1 May 2003) "NBS: Metadata Glossary." Noise Between Stations. http://www.noisebetweenstations.com/personal/essays/metadata_glossary/metadata_glossary.html

 

Class 3:

 

Introduction to metadata (2)

-- Metadata overview and review

-- How MARC is metadata

-- MARC and cataloging foundations

-- Dublin Core implementations

-- [Using CONTENTdm: small group projects]

 

Metadata schema

-- Semantics, content rules, syntax

-- Mark-up languages

-- Syntax for metadata

-- SGML, HTML, XML

 

Reading:

 

Zeng, Marcia Lei and Jian Qin. Metadata. Chapter 2, “Current Standards,” p. 12-84.

 

Caplan, Priscilla.  “Syntax, Creation, and Storage,” Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians.  p. 12 -24.

 

Baca, Martha, ed. Introduction to Metadata. 2nd ed.

Getty Museum. The Getty Standards Program. "Introduction to Metadata:  Pathways to Digital Information”  Online edition, Version 2.1 [Online] Available on the Web: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/

     [Printing in Adobe Acrobat PDF format]

            * Gilliland-Swetland, Anne J. Setting the Stage

            * Tony Gill.  Metadata and the World Wide Web

 

Weibel, Stuart L. "Border Crossings: Reflections on a Decade of Metadata Consensus Building." D-Lib Magazine 11, no. 7/8 (2005). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/weibel/07weibel.html

 

Lynch, Clifford. "The Dublin Core Descriptive Metadata Program: Strategic Implications for Libraries and Networked Information Access." ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions, no. 196. http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/dublin.pdf

 

Chaudhri, Talat, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey, and Emma Tonkin. "Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profile." Ariadne, no. 62 (2010).  http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue62/chaudhri-et-al/

 

Intner, Sheila S., Susan S. Lazinger, and Jean Weihs.  Metadata and Its Impact on Libraries. “What Is Metadata?” p. 3-20.

 

NISO. “What is Metadata?,” “What Does Metadata Do?” “Structuring Metadata,” “Metadata Schemes and Element Sets,” Understanding Metadata, an introduction to metadata, p. 1-3.

 

*Suggested readings and activities:

 

Browse through the sample collection already published http://cdmdemo.contentdmdemo.com/. 

Access the tutorial on the User Support Center at www.contentdm.com/USC/tutorials/ and build your first collection.

 

Haynes, David.  Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval.  “Standards and Data Models,” p. 38-63. “Rights Management, Ownership and Authenticity,” p. 118-133.

 

Caplan, Priscilla.  “Guide to XML Schema for Library Metadata,” Library Systems 22, no. 12 (December 2002), p. 2-4.

 

Luther, Judy.  (December 2002).  “XML Transforms Content,” Library Systems 22, no. 12 (December 2002), p. 1-2.

 

Miller, Dick R. "XML: Libraries' Strategic Opportunity,"  Library Journal Digital, August 2000. 

[Full text available in HTML or PDF through Wilson Select Plus.]

 

"Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium: Confronting Challenges for Networked Resources and the Web," sponsored by the Library of Congress Cataloging Directorate -- to be held Nov. 15-17, 2000

     [Online] Available on the Web:          http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/

Also available in print:  Proceedings of the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium.  Washington, DC:  Library of Congress, 2001. 

 

Caplan, Priscilla.  International Metadata Initiatives: Lessons in Bibliographic Control

 

Chapters 5: National Research Council (U.S.). Lc21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 2000. http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9940&page=122

http://books.nap.edu/html/lc21/

 

Reading Assignment (for Class 4):

 

Either: W3Schools’ XML Introduction - What is XML [Read at least through the “XML Basic” ” Validation section; the rest of the “Basic” tutorial and the “XML Advanced” are optional.] http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_whatis.asp

OR

The TEI Consortium‘s A gentle introduction to XML. (2004)   http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/SG.html

 

Introduction to XML by Daniel Pitti. (2002) http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~dvp4c/xmlintro.html

 

Hillman, Diane. Using Dublin Core.  (2005) http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/

 

Powell, Andy and Pete Johnson. Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML (2003) http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-xml-guidelines/

 

DCMI Usage Board’s DCMI type vocabulary (2008) http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-type-vocabulary/

Please refer to the print syllabus for further specific readings and assignments, starting Class 4.

Class 4:    Possible Guest Lecture on XML applications

Dublin Core
-- Historical evolution via series of workshops
-- Elements
-- Qualifiers
-- XML syntax

Types of metadata
-- Review of legacy metadata applications
-- Cataloging: overview
-- Alternatives to cataloging
-- Best practices
-- "Metadata Object Description Schema" (MODS)
        MODS gives us the opportunity to examine the distinctions made by both MARC and AACR2. 
        Which are important and which are not? 
        What does MODS lose, what does it add?

Class 5:

High level overview of specific metadata schema
-- TEI header
-- EAD
-- GILS, IMS, VRACC, ONIX
-- MODS, METS, PREMIS

Legacy metadata applications (1)
-- Determining bibliographic control
-- Applications
-- Review: FRBR FRAD, FRSAD
-- Reports

Class 6:

Legacy metadata applications (2)
-- Creating and designing KOS (Knowledge Organization Systems)
-- Cataloging examples:  online monographs
-- Reports

AACR2/RDA/MARC review Part 1
-- Principles of knowledge organization
-- Legacy cataloging:  goals, processes and components
-- Description
-- Access points and forms of headings

-- RDA Toolkits. www.rdatoolkit.org.

Class7:

AACR2/RDA/MARC review Part 2
-- Description and headings

-- Controlled vocabulary

Legacy cataloging model: AACR2R/RDA and MARC21
-- AACR2 Chapter 9
-- Major characteristics of Internet Resources
-- Key MARC fields, AACR2R rules and Dublin Core elements
-- Changes to cataloging rules and MARC
-- MARC 856

Access points by subject
-- Subject headings
-- Classification systems
-- Call numbers

Encoding standards and MARC
-- MARC tags, and their impact on the indexes and searching
-- Examples of MARC records

Class 8:

Legacy cataloging model: AACR2R/RDA and MARC21
-- a monographic work for the print version and the electronic version
-- a serial
-- a Web site
-- Digital images
-- Analytics
-- Multimedia

Classification and Ontological Knowledge Base (1)
--Classification, Subject headings, Thesaurus
-- Taxonomy, Ontology 
-- SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System)
-- Folksonomies

Progress reports on self-assessments

Class 9:

Classification and Ontological Knowledge Base (2)
--Classification, Subject headings, Thesaurus
-- Taxonomy, Ontology 
-- SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System)
-- Folksonomies

Managing metadata (Part 1)
-- Crosswalks

-- Linked data

-- Semantic Web, Web 3.0
-- RDF
-- METS
-- XML
-- OAI

Class 10: Tentative schedule for two field trips: metadata schema applications for the digital projects

Managing metadata (Part 2)
-- Crosswalks

-- Linked data

-- Semantic Web, Web 3.0
-- RDF
-- METS
-- XML
-- OAI

Class 11:

Interoperability: Search and retrieval
-- Full text vs. metadata based search
-- Z39.50
-- OAI-PMH
-- Models for cross-domain searching

Crosswalks
-- Discussion
--Short reports on individual crosswalks: MODS, TEI, EAD, GILS, IMS, VRACC, ONIX

Class 12:

Identifiers
-- URIs and the problem of persistence

Digital libraries and subject analysis to access Internet resources
-- Natural language processing
-- Controlled language:  Subject headings, classification systems, call numbers
-- Browsing and serendipity
-- Semantic Web

Student oral reports on Specific Metadata Schema (1):

            DC, MODS, TEI, EAD, GILS, IMS, VRACC, ONIX, FGDC, PB Core, MPEG

Class 13:

Reference linking and other emerging issues
-- Reference linking
-- Semantic Web

Student oral reports on Specific Metadata Schema (2):
            TEI, EAD, GILS, IMS, VRACC, ONIX, and others

Class 14 and Class 15:

Student oral reports on Specific Metadata Schema (3 and 4)
Wrap-up
 

Select Metadata Schema Studied:

 

METADATA SCHEMA:  (Please consult the printed syllabus and bibliography for further sources.)

 

n  DC (Dublin Core)  http://dublincore.org/

 

 

n  MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging)              http://www.loc.gov/marc/

 

MARCXML  http://www.loc.gov/marcxml

 

n  MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)

 

"Metadata Object Description Schema" (MODS) version 3.4 (June 2010)

http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/   

 

MADS (Metadata Authority Description Schema) Version 1.0 (rev. June 10, 2010)

http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/

 

n  PREMIS (PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies)

 

PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, v. 2 (March 2008)

http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/v2/premis-2-0.pdf

http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/

 

n  EAD (Encoded Archival Description)

 

Encoded Archival Description: Official Website.  http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/

 

n  GILS (Global Information Locator Service/Government Information Locator Service)

 

GILS home page. http://www.gils.net/index.html

 

Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) Metadata Standard

Maintained by the National Archives of Australia and published as Australian Standard AS 5044 by Standards Australia in December 2002
http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/publications/AGLS-Element.aspx

 

n  IMS (Instructional Management System)

 

IMS home page.  http://www.imsglobal.org/index.html

 

IMS Meta-data Specification.(1.3 version)  http://www.imsglobal.org/metadata/index.html

 

Schema: IEEE 1484.12.1-2002, 15 July 2002.

http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/files/LOM_1484_12_1_v1_Final_Draft.pdf

 

Learning Object Metadata (LOM)

http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/index.html

 

n  TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) header.

 

Text Encoding Initiative (homepage)  http://www.tei-c.org/

 

n  Visual Resources Association Core Categories (VRACC)

 

Welcome to the VRA Core 4.0  (April 9, 2007) http://www.vraweb.org/projects/vracore4/

 

 

n   CDWA and CDWA Lite

 

Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA)

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/

 

Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images (CCO).  9February 2005)                http://www.vrafoundation.org/ccoweb/

 

MIX (NISO Metadata for Images in XML Schema) Version 0.2 (July 2004)

http://www.loc.gov/standards/mix/

 

n  ONline Information eXchange (ONIX)

ONIX  http://www.editeur.org/8/ONIX/

 

n  Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM)
http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/geospatial-metadata-standards

 

n  The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)

http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/metadata/base-metadata/v2_0698.pdf

 

n  The Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary (PBCore)

http://pbcore.org/2.0/

 

n  MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 for Audio and Video (ISO/IEC standards developed by MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/index.htm

o   MPEG-4  http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/standards/mpeg-4/mpeg-4.htm

o   MPEG-7  http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/standards/mpeg-7/mpeg-7.htm

 

Text Books:

REQUIRED

  • Zeng, Marcia Lei and Jian Qin. Metadata. New York, N.Y.: Neal-Schuman, 2008. ISBN 978-1555706357

 

  • Baca, Murtha, ed. Introduction to Metadata. 2nd ed. Los Angeles, Calif.:  The Getty Research Institute, 2008.  ISBN: 978-0-89236-896-9

                     Getty Museum. The Getty Standards Program. "Introduction to Metadata:  Pathways to Digital Information”  Online edition, Version 2.1 [Online] Available on the Web: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/

                     [Printing in Adobe Acrobat PDF format]

 

 

  • Oliver, Chris. Introducing RDA: A Guide to the Basics. Chicago: ALA, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-8389-3594-1

 

RECOMMENDED

Intner, Sheila S., Susan S. Lazinger, and Jean Weihs.  Metadata and Its Impact on Libraries.  Westport, Conn.:  Libraries Unlimited, 2006.  ISBN 1-59158-145-1

 

Haynes, David. Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval. London: Facet Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-85604-489-0

 

Caplan, Priscilla. Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians. Chicago: ALA, 2003. ISBN 0-8389-0847-0

 

Mitchell, Anne M. and Brian E. Surratt. Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2005. ISBN 1-55570-521-9

 

Proceedings of the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2001. 574 pages. ISBN 0-8444-1046-2

The same is also available at:
"Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium: Confronting Challenges for Networked Resources and the Web," sponsored by the Library of Congress Cataloging Directorate -- to be held Nov. 15-17, 2000, http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/

 

Arms, William Y. Digital libraries. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001. ISBN 0-262-51127-4 ($24.95 for Paperback) http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/DigLib/index.html

 

Svenonius, Elaine. The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000. ISBN 0-262-19433-3

 

 

Selected Web and other resources: (Please see the print syllabus.)

 

MIT Libraries. “Metadata Reference Guide,” http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/metadata/standards.html

 

University of Virginia Library. Digital Initiatives – Metadata Readings & Resources. Available: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/metadata/readings.html

 

Standards at the Library of Congress. Available: http://www.loc.gov/standards/

 

IFLA. Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources. http://www.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm

 


Updated on September 01, 2010