Metadata for Digital Resources. Implementation, Systems Design and Interoperability

197 Pages·2008·6.238 MB·English

by  Muriel Foulonneau and Jenn Riley (Auth.)

Metadata for Digital Resources
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Metadata for Digital
Resources
Implementation, Systems Design
and Interoperability
M F
URIEL OULONNEAU
AND
J R
ENN ILEY
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List of figures, table and boxes
Figures
4.1 A metadata creation interface specifically designed for
sheet music 47
7.1 FirstSearch interface showing hierarchy between
general and specific search indexes 96
7.2 Gateway to 21st Century Skills multiple browsing criteria 100
7.3 Flamenco interface for UC Berkeley Architecture
Image Library 101
7.4 National Science Digital Library 104
7.5 LibraryThing tag cloud 105
7.6 Historical timeline from the Metropolitan Museum 106
7.7 The world map representation corresponding to the
part of the timeline that was selected from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art 106
7.8 TouchGraph Google Browser that represents the
connections between websites that contain the
keyword Darwin 108
7.9 Exalead search engine ‘Narrow your search’ on the
keyword ‘Darwin’ 110
9.1 Different applications use different information about
digital resources 129
10.1 Federated search over distributed indexes: a user queries
for ‘mill’, its query is sent to each system 140
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Metadata for Digital Resources
10.2 Interface of the European Library hosted at the
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands), based on SRU
access to the collections listed on the left-hand side of
the screen 142
10.3 Data aggregation – a central system collects all the
information it needs and leaves the resources on their
source system 143
10.4 Picture Australia search on OAI-harvested records from
multiple institutions 146
10.5 Zotero screenshot 154
10.6 ScholarlyWork or ePrints application profile model
based on the FRBR framework 155
10.7 A sample (simple) compound digital object as described
in the OAI-ORE model 157
12.1 Picture displayed by the State Library of Victoria
(Australia) – note the link to ‘share what you know
about this image’. 190
Table
10.1 Mapping proposed by the Getty Trust for Object Work
(core) in CDWA 161
Boxes
2.1 An alternate list of factors to consider when choosing
a metadata standard 19
3.1 Some metadata usage guidelines 38
4.1 Choice of an XML editor 51
6.1 CCO-style values for display and machine-readability
encoded in VRA Core 4.0 85
9.1 Example of an XML sitemap 132
10.1 The OAI-PMH protocol 147
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10.2 Extract of a RSS feed from the Library Journal 150
10.3 Extract from the XSLT crosswalk from simple Dublin
Core to the MODS format, Version 3.2 162
11.1 The six Cs and lots of Ss of shareable metadata 178–9
12.1 Example of a YouTube link to embed content in third
party pages 193
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the Indiana University Libraries, the
talented staff of the Indiana University Digital Library Program, and the
Digital Library Research Laboratory and the group of researchers,
students and practitioners that attend the metadata roundtable at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the support they have
provided for the authors’ research. The authors have also greatly
benefited from the work carried out by the Digital Library Federation
and National Science Digital Library working group on Best Practices
for OAI Data Provider Implementations and Shareable Metadata and
in particular Sarah L. Shreeves and Kat Hagedorn, who led those
discussions. Finally, the authors would like to thank Jean-Pierre Dalbéra,
who has initiated applications in Europe to provide a single access point
to resources from different cultural heritage sectors.
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About the authors
Muriel Foulonneau was project coordinator at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign for the CIC-OAI metadata harvesting project
(2004–2006), an initiative for developing common best practices for
sharing metadata among the Commitee for Institutional Cooperation
consortium of research universities in the USA. She was part of the
American initiative to create the Digital Library Federation and National
Science Digital Library’s Best Practices for OAI Data Provider
Implementations and Shareable Metadata, and previously worked as a
consultant in content management systems and as an IT advisor for the
French Ministry of Culture. Muriel was a participant in the Minerva
project, a collaboration among European ministries of culture on
digitisation of cultural heritage resources (from libraries, museums,
archives, archaeological sites, and so on). She also served as an expert for
the European Commission for research projects related to digital
heritage and research infrastructures. Muriel is the co-chair of the Dublin
Core Collection Working Group of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
Since September 2006, Muriel has worked at the Centre pour la
Communication Scientifique Directe of the CNRS in France where she
works on the HAL archive of scientific publications and the European
project DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European
Research). Muriel is the author of numerous articles on digital libraries
and metadata, and is the co-author of a book on the Open Archives
Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
Jenn Rileyis the Metadata Librarian with the Digital Library Program at
Indiana University, Bloomington, where she is responsible for planning
metadata strategy for digital library projects and participates in the
collaborative design of digital library systems. Much of her recent efforts
have been working towards the cost-effective creation of ‘shareable’
metadata, promoting re-use of descriptive metadata in new and
unanticipated environments. She was a major contributor to the
emerging metadata guidelines Best Practices for OAI Data Provider
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Metadata for Digital Resources
Implementations and Shareable Metadata from the Digital Library
Federation and National Science Digital Library, and the Digital Library
Federation/Aquifer Implementation Guidelines for Shareable MODS
Records. Jenn’s research interests also include the incorporation of
thesaurus structures into search and browse systems, music digital
libraries, and FRBR. Jenn is the author of the blog Inquiring Librarian,
where her posts frequently centre around improving intellectual access
to library materials, a contributor to the collaborative Blog and Wiki
TechEssence, a technology resource for library administrators, and the
author or co-author of a number of articles describing various aspects of
developing digital library collections. In addition to an MLS from
Indiana University, she holds a BM in Music Education from the
University of Miami (Florida) and an MA in Musicology from Indiana
University.
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