Library Cataloging
ePub Metadata
Image via WikipediaIt seems those ePub books I've been downloading form Project Gutenberg have metadata. It is based on Dublin Core but does provide more specific terms for the creator. Talat Chaudhri at UKOLN writes about why ePub is of interest from the point of view of metadata and application profiles, in What is ePub?
Is anyone harvesting ePub metadata? It seems it would be trivial to provide OAI-PMH interface to ePubs.
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Information Standards Quarterly
The Spring 2011 issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) is now available online in PDF format and is open access. Both the full issue and the individual articles can be downloaded. This special edition of ISQ presents Views of the E-book Renaissance....
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Frbr In Dublin Core Application Profiles
Assessing FRBR in Dublin Core Application Profiles by Talat Chaudhri appears in Ariadne no. 58.The question remains as to whether FRBR is suitable for Web delivery within repositories, and for which specific resource types and DCAPs. Until this is answered...
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Metadata Registries
A Metadata Registry from Vocabularies Up: The NSDL Registry Project by Diane I. Hillmann, Stuart A. Sutton, Jon Phipps, and Ryan Laundry will be presented at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications.The NSDL Metadata Registry...
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Mksearch
MKDoc Ltd. has announced the first beta release of MKSearch, under the GNU General Public Licence. Source and pre-compiled binary downloads are available from the project Web site.MKSearch is a metadata search engine that indexes structured metadata in...
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Dc & Openurl
The OpenURL community has posted, for comments, the paper Dublin Core Community Profile (DCCP) for Simple Dublin Core in KEV Format.This profile will allow the transport of metadata using the fifteen Dublin Core elements as key/value pairs on an OpenURL....
Library Cataloging