Library Cataloging
Keeping an eye on Metadata by Glyn Moody from Computer Weekly. Short article with plenty of links. Interesting because it shows computer folks are recognizing the importance of cataloging, by whatever name.
- Accurate Metadata Sells Books
Accurate Metadata Sells Books by Calvin Reid appears in a recent Publishers Weekly. Now, Dawson said, accurate metadata has become a marketing tool for publishers, a shopping guide for consumers, and an absolute necessity for distributors and retailers....
- W3c Completes Bridge Between Html/microformats And Semantic Web
Big news from the W3C, GRDDL.Today, the World Wide Web Consortium completed an important link between Semantic Web and microformats communities. With "Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages", or GRDDL (pronounced "griddle"), software...
- Naked Metadata
Naked Metadata by Jonathan O'Donnell is an interesting concept, one that seems sound in principle. The details look OK to me, but I only skimed them.The problem Metadata in Web pages often doesn't get updated when the pages get updated.The solution...
- Metadata
The Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) has released version 4 of their MetaSuite product family for managing Dublin Core and similar metadata. Products include:HotMeta - a web-enabled metadata repository and query engine, and associated metadata...
- Metadata
The draft of the paper Quality Assurance for Digital Learning Object Repositories: The Power of Metadata by Sarah Currier and Jane Barton is available for comment.Much work has already been done within the learning technology community to assure metadata...
Library Cataloging
Metadata
Keeping an eye on Metadata by Glyn Moody from Computer Weekly. Short article with plenty of links. Interesting because it shows computer folks are recognizing the importance of cataloging, by whatever name.
Few people bother to look at the code underlying Web sites they visit, but it is often worth doing so - not just to see how good pages are put together, but to examine any metadata lurking there. For metadata - data about data - is becoming an increasingly important area of Web technology (the World Wide Web Consortium has some background on the subject).
- Accurate Metadata Sells Books
Accurate Metadata Sells Books by Calvin Reid appears in a recent Publishers Weekly. Now, Dawson said, accurate metadata has become a marketing tool for publishers, a shopping guide for consumers, and an absolute necessity for distributors and retailers....
- W3c Completes Bridge Between Html/microformats And Semantic Web
Big news from the W3C, GRDDL.Today, the World Wide Web Consortium completed an important link between Semantic Web and microformats communities. With "Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages", or GRDDL (pronounced "griddle"), software...
- Naked Metadata
Naked Metadata by Jonathan O'Donnell is an interesting concept, one that seems sound in principle. The details look OK to me, but I only skimed them.The problem Metadata in Web pages often doesn't get updated when the pages get updated.The solution...
- Metadata
The Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) has released version 4 of their MetaSuite product family for managing Dublin Core and similar metadata. Products include:HotMeta - a web-enabled metadata repository and query engine, and associated metadata...
- Metadata
The draft of the paper Quality Assurance for Digital Learning Object Repositories: The Power of Metadata by Sarah Currier and Jane Barton is available for comment.Much work has already been done within the learning technology community to assure metadata...