Library Cataloging
Call for Papers
The Journal of Library Metadata (JLM) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles on all aspects of metadata applications in libraries. The journal is published quarterly by The Haworth Press, Inc.
Previously titled the Journal of Internet Cataloging, after a change in title and editorship, JLM will now focus on metadata, an exciting, timely subject of importance to all libraries. The journal will publish three categories of articles: standard, peer-reviewed articles; shorter, scholarly, non-peer reviewed articles; and short viewpoint articles.
These articles will cover all aspects of metadata applications in libraries, including:
Application profiles
Best practices
Controlled vocabularies
Crosswalking of metadata and interoperability
Digital libraries and metadata
Display of search results
Federated repositories
Federated searching
Folksonomies
Individual metadata schemes
Institutional repository metadata
Metadata content standards
Metadata harvesting
Ontologies
Preservation metadata
Resource Description Framework
Resource discovery and metadata
Search engines and metadata
SKOS
Stochastic vs. deterministic searching
Tagging and tag clouds
Topic maps
Visual image and moving image metadata
Categories of Articles
Please consider writing and submitting an article that falls into one of the following three categories:
- Professional Reading
The December issue of D-Lib Magazine has these articles that may be of interest:A Repository of Metadata Crosswalks by Carol Jean Godby, Jeffrey A. Young, and Eric ChildressMetadata Development in China : Research and Practice by Jia LiuResource Harvesting...
- Rss
Here is a publisher who gets it.Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased to announce the completion of the current phase of its RSS newsfeed collection which delivers tables of content for its journals and other timely information to scientists' desktops....
- Publishing Requirements For Industry Standard Metadata
Here is a new (to me) XML standard for serial contents.The Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) specification defines an XML metadata vocabulary for managing, aggregating, post-processing, multi-purposing and aggregating magazine,...
- Dublin Core Metadata
The latest issue of OCLC Systems & Services has the article "Qualified Dublin Core metadata for online journal articles" by Timothy W Cole.This paper describes an implementation utilizing preliminary Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) guidelines for...
- Metadata
A few recent articles by Roy Tennant in Library Journal provide a good introduction metadata.Digital Libraries- Metadata As If Libraries Depended on ItDigital Libraries- The Importance of Being GranularDigital Libraries- The Consequences of CatalogingI...
Library Cataloging
Journal of Internet Cataloging => Journal of Library Metadata
Call for Papers
The Journal of Library Metadata (JLM) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles on all aspects of metadata applications in libraries. The journal is published quarterly by The Haworth Press, Inc.
Previously titled the Journal of Internet Cataloging, after a change in title and editorship, JLM will now focus on metadata, an exciting, timely subject of importance to all libraries. The journal will publish three categories of articles: standard, peer-reviewed articles; shorter, scholarly, non-peer reviewed articles; and short viewpoint articles.
These articles will cover all aspects of metadata applications in libraries, including:
Application profiles
Best practices
Controlled vocabularies
Crosswalking of metadata and interoperability
Digital libraries and metadata
Display of search results
Federated repositories
Federated searching
Folksonomies
Individual metadata schemes
Institutional repository metadata
Metadata content standards
Metadata harvesting
Ontologies
Preservation metadata
Resource Description Framework
Resource discovery and metadata
Search engines and metadata
SKOS
Stochastic vs. deterministic searching
Tagging and tag clouds
Topic maps
Visual image and moving image metadata
Categories of Articles
Please consider writing and submitting an article that falls into one of the following three categories:
- Peer-reviewed articles (original research, scholarly manuscripts), which should be 10-50 typed pages, double-spaced.Short, scholarly, non-peer-reviewed articles, often practical in nature (for example, describing a particular library metadata implementation). These should range from 500-2,000 words, with limited citations to other resources.Upbeat Viewpoint articles giving the author?s opinion on a timely topic related to library metadata applications. These should range from 500-2,000 words and may or may not contain citations. Focus should be on improvements or solutions instead of negative aspects of an existing system, standard, or service.
- Professional Reading
The December issue of D-Lib Magazine has these articles that may be of interest:A Repository of Metadata Crosswalks by Carol Jean Godby, Jeffrey A. Young, and Eric ChildressMetadata Development in China : Research and Practice by Jia LiuResource Harvesting...
- Rss
Here is a publisher who gets it.Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased to announce the completion of the current phase of its RSS newsfeed collection which delivers tables of content for its journals and other timely information to scientists' desktops....
- Publishing Requirements For Industry Standard Metadata
Here is a new (to me) XML standard for serial contents.The Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) specification defines an XML metadata vocabulary for managing, aggregating, post-processing, multi-purposing and aggregating magazine,...
- Dublin Core Metadata
The latest issue of OCLC Systems & Services has the article "Qualified Dublin Core metadata for online journal articles" by Timothy W Cole.This paper describes an implementation utilizing preliminary Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) guidelines for...
- Metadata
A few recent articles by Roy Tennant in Library Journal provide a good introduction metadata.Digital Libraries- Metadata As If Libraries Depended on ItDigital Libraries- The Importance of Being GranularDigital Libraries- The Consequences of CatalogingI...