SLIS 5223: Metadata and Networked Information Organization and Retrieval
Metadata Resources List

 


 

 

Metadata Resources List

Contents

Books

Metadata Websites

Online Tutorials

General References



Administrative Metadata

Application Profiles

Collections Descriptions

Crosswalks

Digital Archives & Preservation Metadata

Digital Rights Mgmt.

Dublin Core

Electronic Resource Citations

Frameworks & Models

General

HTML

Identifiers

Information Retrieval

Institutional Repositories

Interoperability

MARC

Metadata & Libraries

Metadata Creation Tools

Metadata Quality & Evaluation

Metadata Schemes

Metasearching

Open Archives Initiative

OpenURL

Research

Resource Description Framework

Semantics

Syntax and Encoding

Trust & Authenticity

XML

Web Search Engines & Metadata

Z39.50

 


This document contains a selective list of various metadata resources and readings. It is by no means comprehensive. It will continue to expand during the semester.


Books

Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information. Murtha Baca. 1998.

Metadata Demystified: A Guide for Publishers. by Amy Brand,  Frank Daly, and Barbara Meyers. 2003. 

Understanding Metadata.  National Standards Information Organization. 2004. 

 

Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians. Priscilla Caplan. 2003. (not available online)

Metadata in Practice. Diane I. Hillmann and  Elaine L. Westbrooks.  2004. (not available online)

Getting Mileage Out of Metadata: Applications for the Library. Jean Hudgins, Grace Agnew, Elizabeth Brown. 1999. (not available online)


Metadata Websites

Canadian Heritage Information Networked (CHIN). Metadata Standards for Museum Cataloguing.

International Federation of Library Associations. Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources.

The Office for Library and Information Networking. Metadata.

Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC). Metadata.net.


Online Tutorials

W3Schools - Full Web Building Tutorials


General References

Scholarly Electronic Publication Bibliography. Version 52. December 2003.



Administrative Metadata

The A-Core: Metadata about Content Metadata. [Internet-Draft]. R. Iannella and D. Campbell. 1999.

AC - Administrative Components: Dublin Core DCMI Administrative Metadata. Jytte Hansen and Leif Andresen. 2003.

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Application Profiles

Application Profiles: Mixing and Matching Metadata Schemas. Rachel Heery and Manjula Patel. 2000.

Dublin Core Collection Description Application Profile [working draft]. Dublin Core Collection Description Working Group. 2003.

Library Application Profile. DCMI-Libraries Working Group. 2004.

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Collections Descriptions

An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues. Michael Heaney. 2000.

Dublin Core Collection Description Application Profile [working draft]. Dublin Core Collection Description Working Group. 2003.

RSLP Collection Description. Collection Description Schema. Andy Powell. 2000.

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Crosswalks

Issues in Crosswalking Content Metadata Standards. Margaret St. Pierre and William P. LaPlant, Jr. 1998.

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Digital Archives & Preservation Metadata

Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach. Gail M. Hodge. 2000.

Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art. OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata. 2001.

Metadata and the OAIS Information Model: A Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects. OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata. 2002.

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Digital Rights Management

Digital Rights Management (DRM) Architectures. Renato Iannella. 2001.

The Indecs Metadata Framework: Principles, Model, and Data Dictionary. Godfrey Rust & Mark Bide. 2000.

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        Dublin Core

ANSI/NISO Z39.85 - 2001 Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. 2001.

The Dublin Core: A Simple Content Description Model for Electronic Resources. Stuart Weibel. 1997.

Dublin Core Abstract Model (Working Draft). Andy Powell. 2003.

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Frequently Asked Questions. 2003. 

An Overview of the Dublin Core Data Model (Initial version: 1999-06-06)  Eric J. Miller. 1999.

Using Dublin Core. Diane Hillman. 2003.

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        Electronic Resource Citations

The ARK Persistent Identifier Scheme. John A. Kunze, et al. 2004.

A Metadata Kernel for Electronic Permanence. John A. Kunze. 2001.

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        Frameworks & Models

Brave New FRBR World. Patrick Le Bœuf. 2003.

A Common Model to Support Interoperable Metadata. David Bearman, Godfrey Rust,  Stuart Weibel, Eric Miller, and Jennifer Trant. 1999.

The DNER Technical Architecture: Scoping the Information Environment. Andy Powell. 2001.

Extending the Warwick Framework: From Metadata Containers to Active Digital Objects. Ron Daniel, Jr. and Carl Lagoze. 1997.

The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report. IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. 1998.

Indecs Framework. [Website].

The Indecs Metadata Framework: Principles, Model, and Data Dictionary. Godfrey Rust & Mark Bide. 2000.

JISC Information Environment Architecture. Website. 2003.

JISC Information Environment Architecture: Functional Model. Powell and Lyon. 2003.

JISC Information Environment Architecture: Standards Framework. 2003.

A Metadata Architecture for Digital Libraries. Ron Daniel Jr., Carl Lagoze, and Sandra D. Payette. 1998.

Metadata: The Right Approach. An Integrated Model for Descriptive and Rights Metadata in E-commerce. Godfrey Rust. 1998.

MODELS Information Architecture (MIA) Functional Model. Tracy Gardner. 1999.

Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). Management Council of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS).  2002.

Semantic Web Metadata for e-Learning - Some Architectural Guidelines. Mikael Nilsson, Matthias Palmer and Ambjorn Naeve. 2002.

The Warwick Framework: A Container Architecture for Diverse Sets of Metadata. Carl Lagoze. 1996

The Warwick Metadata Workshop: A Framework for the Deployment of Resource Description. Lorcan Dempsey and Stuart L. Weibel. 1996.

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        General

The Future of Internet Metadata. Renato Iannella. 1999.

From Static to Dynamic Surrogates: Resource Discovery in the Digital Age. Carl Lagoze. 1997.

Guidance on the Structure, Content, and Application of Metadata Records for Digital Resources and Collections. IFLA Cataloguing Section Working Group on the Use of Metadata Schemas. 2003.

International Metadata Initiatives: Lessons in Bibliographic Control. Priscilla Caplan. 2000.

Metacrap: Putting the Torch to Seven Straw-men of the Meta-utopia. Cory Doctorow. 2001.

Metadata: Cataloging by Any Other Name. Jessica Milstead and Susan Feldman. January 1999.

Metadata Principles and Practicalities. Erik Duval, et al. 2002.

Metadata: The Foundations of Resource Description. Stuart Weibel. 1995.

Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps!: Making sense of it all. Lars Marius Garshol. 2004.

Mixed Content and Mixed Metadata: Information Discovery in a Messy World. Caroline R. Arms and William Y. Arms. 2004.

Task Force on Metadata: Final Report. Joint MARBI/CC:DA Metadata Task Force. 2000.

Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web: 1998 - 2002. Edward T. O'Neill, et al. 2003.

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HTML

HTML 4.01 Specification

HTML Tutorial. Provided by W3 Schools

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        Identifiers

The Digital Object Identifier System. Website.

Towards Electronic Persistence Using ARK Identifiers. John Kunze. 2003.

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        Information Retrieval

Information Retrieval. C. J. van Rijsbergen. 1979.

 

        Institutional Repositories

bepress Respository Technology. Berkeley Electronic Press. 2003

CARL Institutional Repository Pilot Project: Online Resource Portal. CARL. 2003.

The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper. SPARC. 2002.

A Guide to Institutional Repository Software. 2nd ed. Raym Crow. 2004. (Note: This updates the previous version that had been listed here: The Guide to Institutional Repository Software. Budapest Open Access Initiative. 2003.)

A Guide to Setting Up an Institutional Repository. CARL Project. 2002.

Institutional Repositories. Roy Tennant. 2002

Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age. Clifford A. Lynch. 2003.

Institutional Repositories: Partnering with Faculty to Enhance Scholarly Communication. Richard K. Johnson. 2002.

Open Archives and UK Institutions: An Overview. Pinfield. 2003.

Prospects for institutional e-print repositories in the United Kingdom. Michael Day. 2003.

Setting Up an Institutional E-print Archive. Pinfield, Gardner, MacColl. 2002.

SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide. SPARC. 2002.

Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities. RLG - OCLC. 2002.

Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories. Nancy Fried Foster and Susan Gibbons. 2005. 

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Interoperability

An Event-Aware Model for Metadata Interoperability. Carl Lagoze, Jane Hunter, and Dan Brickley. 2000.

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MARC

ANSI/NISO Z39.2 - 1994 (R2001) Information Interchange Format. 2001. National Information Standards Organization.

Assessing Metadata Utilization: An Analysis of MARC Content Designation Use. William E. Moen and Penelope Benardino. 2003.

MARC 21 Concise Format for Bibliographic Data. Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office. 2002.

MARC 21 Specifications for Record Structure, Character Sets, and Exchange Media. Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office. 2000.

MARC Standards.  [Website]. Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office. 2003.

Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging. Betty Furrie. 2003.

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        Metasearching

London Libraries. Website. <http://www.londonlibraries.org.uk>

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        Metadata and Libraries

Internet Metadata and Library Cataloguing. Juha Hakala.  [Still trying to find this one on the Internet!]

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        Metadata Creation Tools

Iterative Design of Metadata Creation Tools for Resource Authors. D. Robertson, E. Leadem, A. Crystal, and J. Greenberg. 2003.

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        Metadata Quality and Evaluation

Analyzing Metadata for Effective Use and Re-Use. N. Dushay and D. Hillmann. 2003.

Assessing Metadata Utilization: An Analysis of MARC Content Designation Use. William E. Moen and Penelope Benardino. 2003.

The Continuum of Quality: Defining, Expressing, Exploiting. Thomas R. Bruce and Diane I. Hillman. 2004.

A Metadata Assessment of Records in the Government Information Locator Service. Selections from the final report of An Evaluation of the Federal Government’s Implementation of the Government Information Locator Service (GILS). William E. Moen and Charles R. McClure. 1997. A summary of this work is also available in: The Role of Content Analysis in Evaluating Metadata for the U.S. Government Information Locator Service (GILS): Results from an Exploratory Study. William E. Moen, Erin L. Stewart, and Charles R. McClure. 1998.

Improving the Quality of Metadata in Eprint Archives. Marieke Guy, Andy Powell, and Michael Day. 2004.

A Quantitative Analysis of Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) Usage in Data Providers Registered with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). Jewel Ward. 2003.

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        Metadata Schemes

A Metadata Kernel for Electronic Permanence. John Kunze. 2001

Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS). [Website].

METS: An Overview & Tutorial. 2003.

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        Metasearching

Do We Want or Need Metasearching? William J. Frost. 2004.

London Libraries. Website. <http://www.londonlibraries.org.uk>

NISO's Metadata Initiative. Website. <http://www.niso.org/committees/MS_initiative.html>

Trumping Google? Metasearching's Promise. Judy Luther. 2003.

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Open Archives Initiative

Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative. Clifford A. Lynch.  2001. 

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        OpenURL

Automating Enhanced Discovery and Delivery: The OpenURL Possibilities. David Stern. 2001.

Linking to the Appropriate Copy: Report of a DOI-Based Prototype. Oren Beit-Arie et al. 2001.

Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework, Herbert Van de Sompel and Oren Beit-Arie. 2001.

OpenResolver: a Simple OpenURL Resolver, Andy Powell. 2001.

Reference Linking for Journal Articles. Priscilla Caplan and William Y. Arms. 1999.

Registry for the OpenURL Framework. [Website].

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        Research

Metadata for Digital Libraries: A Research Agenda (Draft 10, Final Approved Version). EU-NSF Working Group on Metadata.

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        Resource Description Framework

An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework. Eric Miller. 1998.

RDF: References [Website]. 2003.

RDF Primer (W3C Recommendation). Frank Manola and Eric Miller. 2004.

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        Semantics

A Semantics Modeling Approach to Metadata. Terje Brasethvik. 1998.

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        Syntax and Encoding  [See also the sections on MARC and XML]

Expressing Dublin Core in HTML/XHTML Meta and Link Elements. Andy Powell. 2003.

HTML 4.01 Specification: Section 7.4 Meta data.  1999.

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        Trust and Authenticity

Authenticity and Integrity in the Digital Environment: An Exploratory Analysis of the Central Role of Trust. Clifford Lynch. 2003.

When Documents Deceive: Trust and Provenance as New Factors for Information Retrieval in a Tangled Web. Clifford Lynch. 2001.

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        Web Search Engines & Metadata

The Anatomy of a Large-scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine. S. Brin and L. Page. 1998.

Death Of A Meta Tag. Danny Sullivan. 2002

The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google. T.A. Brooks. 2004.

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        XML

XML Applications and Initiatives: Contents Listing for XML Applications and Industry Initiatives. 2004.

XML Cover Pages. [Website].

XML in 10 Points. Bert Bos. 2001.

XML Organic Bibliographic Information Schema. [Website.] 2003.

XML Software [Website]. 2003.

XML Tutorial. Provided by W3 Schools.

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        Z39.50

Resource Discovery Using Z39.50: Promise and Reality. William E. Moen. 2000.

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