Library Cataloging
Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums by Mary W. Elings and Günter Waibel appears in the March issue of First Monday
- Standards Poster
What's the term for a lot of standards? A mess? Gaggle? Flock? Whatever it is Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe is a poster of standards in the memory community. The sheer number of metadata standards in the cultural heritage...
- In Harmony Sheet Music Cataloging Tool
The Indiana University Digital Library Program has released the IN Harmony Sheet Music Cataloging Tool.This tool has been designed to assist libraries, archives, museums, and individual collectors describe their sheet music collections in a robust and...
- Preservation Metadata
For several years OCLC and RLG have jointly sponsored expert working groups on preservation-related topics. The current group, PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies), is international in composition and focused on the development of...
- Metadata
CIMI Releases SPECTRUM Schema. The CIMI Consortium is pleased to announce the public release of Version 1.5 of the CIMI XML Schema for SPECTRUM, and the launch of an Open Implementers call to participate an Alpha Test Period. The CIMI Schema will enable...
- Open Archives Initiative
Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting v.2.0 scheduled for release. Here is a description of the OAI from their FAQ: The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination...
Library Cataloging
Metadata for All Memory Institutions
Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums by Mary W. Elings and Günter Waibel appears in the March issue of First Monday
Integrating digital content from libraries, archives and museums represents a persistent challenge. While the history of standards development is rife with examples of cross-community experimentation, in the end, libraries, archives and museums have developed parallel descriptive strategies for cataloguing the materials in their custody. Applying in particular data content standards by material type, and not by community affiliation, could lead to greater data interoperability within the cultural heritage community.In making this argument, the article demystifies metadata by defining and categorizing types of standards, provides a brief historical overview of the rise of descriptive standards in museums, libraries and archives, and considers the current tensions and ambitions in making descriptive practice more economicMetadata
- Standards Poster
What's the term for a lot of standards? A mess? Gaggle? Flock? Whatever it is Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe is a poster of standards in the memory community. The sheer number of metadata standards in the cultural heritage...
- In Harmony Sheet Music Cataloging Tool
The Indiana University Digital Library Program has released the IN Harmony Sheet Music Cataloging Tool.This tool has been designed to assist libraries, archives, museums, and individual collectors describe their sheet music collections in a robust and...
- Preservation Metadata
For several years OCLC and RLG have jointly sponsored expert working groups on preservation-related topics. The current group, PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies), is international in composition and focused on the development of...
- Metadata
CIMI Releases SPECTRUM Schema. The CIMI Consortium is pleased to announce the public release of Version 1.5 of the CIMI XML Schema for SPECTRUM, and the launch of an Open Implementers call to participate an Alpha Test Period. The CIMI Schema will enable...
- Open Archives Initiative
Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting v.2.0 scheduled for release. Here is a description of the OAI from their FAQ: The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination...