Library Cataloging
Nichols, David M. and Paynter, Gordon W. and Chan, Chu-Hsiang and Bainbridge, David and McKay, Dana and Twidale, Michael B. and Blandford, Ann (2008) Metadata tools for institutional repositories.
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- Metadata For Digital Still Images
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- Metadata
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Library Cataloging
Metadata Tools for Institutional Repositories
Nichols, David M. and Paynter, Gordon W. and Chan, Chu-Hsiang and Bainbridge, David and McKay, Dana and Twidale, Michael B. and Blandford, Ann (2008) Metadata tools for institutional repositories.
Current institutional repository software provides few tools to help metadata librarians understand and analyse their collections. In this paper we compare and contrast metadata analysis tools that were developed simultaneously, but independently, at two New Zealand institutions during a period of national investment in research repositories: the Metadata Analysis Tool (MAT) at The University of Waikato, and the Kiwi Research Information Service (KRIS) at the National Library of New Zealand. The tools have many similarities: they are convenient, online, on-demand services that harvest metadata using OAI-PMH, they were developed in response to feedback from repository administrators, and they both help pinpoint specific metadata errors as well as generating summary statistics. They also have significant differences: one is a dedicated tool while the other is part of a wider access tool; one gives a holistic view of the metadata while the other looks for specific problems; one seeks patterns in the data values while the other checks that those values conform to metadata standards. Both tools work in a complementary manner to existing web-based administration tools. We have observed that discovery and correction of metadata errors can be quickly achieved by switching web browser views from the analysis tool to the repository interface, and back. We summarise the findings from both tools? deployment into a checklist of requirements for metadata analysis tools.
- Oai2rdf
Ed Summers at inkdroid points out a tool to change an entire OAI repository into RDF records, oai2rdf.This is an utility tool to convert the metadata contained in an OAI-PMH repository to RDF.....You launch the RDfizer from the command line by giving...
- Learning Object Metadata
The latest issue of Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects has some interesting articles.Tree View Editing Learning Object Metadata by Zeynel Cebeci and Yoldas Erdogan.This paper introduces and examines an authoring tool called as...
- Metadata Tools And Learning Objects
A Framework for Metadata Creation Tools by Valentina Malaxa and Ian Douglas appears in the initial issue of Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning ObjectsMetadata is an increasingly important aspect of resource discovery. Good metadata has...
- Metadata For Digital Still Images
Capturing Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images by Robin L. Dale and Gunter Waibel appears in RLG DigiNews.the community cannot afford to wait for a "magic bullet" file format because it is unlikely to come. Instead, institutions should become familiar...
- 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...