Library Cataloging
OAI Tool
Nichols, David M. and Chan, Chu-Hsiang and Bainbridge, David and McKay, Dana and Twidale, Michael B. (2008) A lightweight metadata quality tool. In
Proceedings The 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 385-388, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (US).
We describe a Web-based metadata quality tool that provides statistical descriptions and visualisations of Dublin Core metadata harvested via the OAI protocol. The lightweight nature of development allows it to be used to gather contextualized requirements and some initial user feedback is discussed.
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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...
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Metadata Quality
Metadata Quality in e-Learning: Garbage In ? Garbage Out? by Sarah Currier appears on the Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS) site.When I speak of quality assurance for metadata, I am not speaking of the quality of the...
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Ontolog
OntoLog is a tool for annotating (describing and indexing) video and audio using ontologies - structured sets of terms or concepts. It used RDF and the Dublin Core. This is a PH. D. project by Jon Heggland. He is looking for testers and users.For OntoLog...
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Professionsal Reading
Online Information Review vol. 26, no. 5 (2002) has the articles"The design of metadata for the Digital Museum Initiative in Taiwan" by Chao-chen Chen; Hsueh-hua Chen; Kuang-hua Chen; Jieh Hsiang.This paper discusses issues related to the development...
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Scout Portal Toolkit
Internet Scout Project is pleased to announce the 1.0 release of the Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT)!This open source software package, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, allows groups or organizations to develop a portal online without making a big...
Library Cataloging