New site for the release of Aloha II, the reworked metadata editor/content packager from the University of Calgary, which is now based on the RELOAD tool from the U.K. The version available right now is an alpha release – no news on their news page (and no RSS feed!) about when to expect beta or gold releases, but hopefully things are moving along swimmingly. – SWL
Tag: metadata
Learning resource discovery based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH’
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue39/powell/
From the latest issue of ARIADNE, comes this article by Andy Powell and Phil Barker detailing the development of a LOM-based application profile and the sharing of these resources using the OAI-PMH. Lots of good references, and I found the sections regarding their vocabularies and the issue of identifiers quite helpful. – SWL
Controlling your Language – Links to Metadata Vocabularies
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/vocabs.html
In searching out existing controlled vocabularies for a project you could do far worse as a starting point than this extensive collection from the ‘Technical Advisory Service for Images,’ another JISC-funded service. Hats off to David Mattison for the pointer. – SWL
Repository of taxonomies/vocabularies for a European Learning Society
From the European Committee on Standardization’s Learning Technology Workshop comes this registry of taxonomies and vocabularies for use in European learning object (and other, presumably) initiatives. There seems to be currently about 24 simple vocabularies or value lists and 4 thesauri. – SWL
Open standards and software for bibliographies and cataloging
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/
bib/openbib.html#haystack
Comprehensive collection of pointers to information on open standards and open source software for managing bibliograpies and library metadata. See also oss4lib, the Open Source software for Libraries listing. – SWL
Presentations from Library conference on “Metadata and Institutional Repositories”
http://www.rlg.org/events/haveandhold2003/index.html
Nice follow up to the Research Library Group’s sessions back in May this year. I would highlight both the “Mixing and matching” sessions which deal with implementing multiple metadata standards and multiple repository systems, as well as the presentations dedicated to selecting and implementing the open source Fedora system as worth a read. – SWL
Resources on metadata, taxonomies and vocabularies in Education
http://www.edtechpost.ca/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/
EdTechPost/MetadataTaxonomiesAndVocabularies
Similar to the last post, here’s a new wiki page with some pointers to resources that may be helpful in dealing with metadata issues, taxonomies and some controlled vocabularies in higher education. – SWL
Technical documentation for the Ilumina Science Repository
http://aa.uncw.edu/digilib/documents/
The Ilumina repository is one of the LOR projects funded by the National Science Foundation. As repositories go it seems fairly mature and appears to contain quite a bit of useful material. They have built this page of technical background info off to the side; much of it is specific to this site and maybe a bit arcane, but perhaps of interest is the flowchart of their review process, as well as an illustrated summary of their review process. – SWL
Developments in Cataloging and Metadata
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/archive/
2003/hyatt.pdf
This recent paper by Shirley Hyatt provides a good high level summary of the field of metadata from the library perspective, and contains a great quote by Sir Thomas Hyde from 1674 that helps to give the whole issue some historical perspective: “In the colossal labor, which exhausts both body and soul, of making into an alphabetical catalogue, a multitude of books gathered from every corner of the earth there are many intricate and difficult problems that torture the mind. – SWL
Two Paths to Interoperable Metadata
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/
archive/2003/godby-dc2003.pdf
It used to seem that the problem we had was not having enough metadata. Now it is becoming clearer that not only do we have a lot of existing metadata, we have a lot of competing metadata standards and schemas – different ways of describing what are either the same or similar objects.
This paper, presented at the recent 2003 Dublin Core conference, proposes one (in fact two) model to translate between this proliferation of schemas in order to present users with a unified search interface to diverse collections tagged with different metadata schema.
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