Library Cataloging
Metadata
A metadata schema, new to me, is the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI).
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an effort to establish an international XML-based standard for the content, presentation, transport, and preservation of documentation for datasets in the social and behavioral sciences. Documentation, sometimes called metadata (data about data), constitutes the information that enables the effective, efficient, and accurate use of those datasets.
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Metadata Scheme For The Publication And Citation Of Research Data
Version 2.0 of the DataCite Metadata Scheme for the Publication and Citation of Research Data has been released. The DataCite Metadata Scheme is a list of core metadata properties chosen for the accurate and consistent identification of data for citation...
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Marc
As part of two projects funded by the U.S. Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), we have been creating a MySQL database of the MARC 21 Concise Format for Bibliographic Data documentation. We have created a public mirror site to our...
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Oai
Implementation Guidelines for the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Conveying rights expressions about metadata in the OAI-PMH framework has reached a beta release.The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)...
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Tei
XML Matters: TEI -- the Text Encoding Initiative : An XML dialect for archival and complex documents by David Mertz.Nowadays, XML is usually thought of as a markup technique utilized by programmers to encode computer-oriented data. Even DocBook and similar...
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Preservation Metadata
New Initiatives for Resource Description and Preservation Metadata is a effort to move MARC into a more flexible structure.MARC, sitting on a NISO/ISO standard for record structures, has been a sound basis for the development of a very large automated...
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