| Application profiles | DC-Library Application Profile (DC-Lib). (2000-08-06) Guenther, Rebecca. DC-Library Application Profile (DC-Lib). Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, 2002-09-24. Working draft. Heery, Rachel; Manjula Patel. "Application profiles : mixing and matching metadata schemas". (2000-09-24) Ariadne, Issue 25. Powell, Andy. RDN/LTSN LOM application profile, version 1.0. Ruddy, David. DC Library Application Profile. (2001-09-21) PowerPoint |
| arXiv | Warner, Simeon. arXiv's current and planned metadata formats. (2003-11-14) PDF |
| Automation | Center for Natural Language Processing. Website CLiMB : Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building. PowerPoint Center for Research on Information Access, Columbia University Libraries, 2003-10-03. Liddy, Elizabeth D. Generating and evaluating metadata . (2003-03-21) PowerPoint |
| Buckets | Maly, Kurt; Michael L. Nelson; Mohammad Zubair. "Smart Objects, Dumb Archives : a user-centric, layered digital library framework". D-Lib Magazine, 5(3), March 1999. Nelson, Michael L. Buckets : smart objects for digital libraries. (2000-08) Multiple formats Ph.D. dissertation. Nelson, Michael L.; Kurt Maly; Delwin R. Croom, Jr.; Steven W. Robbins. "Metadata and buckets in the Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) model". (1999) Proceedings of the Third IEEE META-DATA Conference. Nelson, Michael L.; Kurt Maly. "Smart objects and open archives". D-Lib Magazine, 7(2), February 2001. |
| Content standards | Bowen, Jennifer. RDA: Resource Description and Access: A New Cataloging Standard for a Digital Future. (2006-05-16) PowerPoint Hillmann, Diane. RDA: The Skeptic's View. (2006-05-16) PowerPoint RDA: Resource Description and Access. Website Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR. |
| Controlled vocabularies | Adams, Katherine. "The semantic Web: differentiating between taxonomies and ontologies". HTML, PDF Online, Jul/Aug 2002, Vol. 26, Issue 4. Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS). Website Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Agricultural Ontology Service. Wikipedia. Conway, Susan; Char Sligar. "Building taxonomies". Unlocking Knowledge Assets. Microsoft Press, 2002. Cover, Robin. Resource description and classification. A collection of references on matters of Subject Classification, Taxonomies, Ontologies, Indexing, Metadata, Metadata Registries, Controlled Vocabularies, Terminology, Thesauri, Business Semantics. Graef, Jean. Ten Taxonomy Myths. Montague Institute, 2002-11-27. Hillmann, Diane; Jon Phipps. The NSDL Registry. (2006-06-16) PowerPoint Hillmann, Diane; Stuart Sutton; Jon Phipps; Ryan Laundry. A Metadata Registry from Vocabularies Up: The NSDL Registry Project. (2006) PDF Thesaurus construction. (2002-02-19) Introductory tutorial on thesaurus construction. Warner, Amy J. A Taxonomy Primer. |
| CORC | CORC at Cornell project: final report. (1999) |
| Crosswalks | Kurth, Marty. MARC to DC XML at CUL. (2002-09-20) PowerPoint Kurth, Marty; David Ruddy; Tom Turner. Metadata mapping in ENCompass. (2001-12-21) PowerPoint MARC to Dublin Core Crosswalk. Cornell University Library, 2002-09-19. Powell, Andy. RDN/LTSN LOM application profile, version 1.0. |
| Data mining | Nicholson, Scott. Bibliomining across North America. Website Information about the Bibliomining Across North America workshop, including content from the talk, pointers to information, and details on the traveling presentation and where it will be presented. Nicholson, Scott. Introduction to the Bibliomining Process. (2005) PDF |
| Digital libraries | The archiving system for electronic publications: the e-Depot. Website Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands). Arms, William; Christophe Blanchi; Edward Overly. "An architecture for information in digital libraries". D-Lib Magazine, February 1997. Attributes of a trusted digital repository: meeting the needs of research resources. PDF RLG, 2001-08. Draft for public comment. Barnes, Susan, ed. Becoming a digital library. Book New York : Marcel Dekker, 2004. Collection Building. Website Mercator Web Crawler. Cornell Institute for Digital Collections. Website Digital Archive Attributes Working Group. Website Research Libraries Group. DSpace at Cornell University. Website DSpace Federation. Website Hillmann, Diane. Making metadata work for the NSDL. (2002-11-15) PowerPoint Krafft, Dean B. A model for Simple Metadata-Based Services. (2002-04-15) Kurth, Marty; David Ruddy; Tom Turner. ENCompass metadata issues. (2001-12-21) PowerPoint Kurth, Marty; David Ruddy; Tom Turner. Metadata mapping in ENCompass. (2001-12-21) PowerPoint Lindahl, David; Jeff Suszczynski. CUIPID Project: Catalog User-Interface Platform for Iterative Development. (2005-02-18) PowerPoint National Science Digital Library (NSDL). Website Reference model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). PDF ConsultativeCommittee for Space Data Systems, 2002-01. CCSDS 650.0-B-1 Blue Book. Rosenkrantz, Marcy E. Digital repositories for scholarly output. (2003-10-17) PowerPoint Witten, Ian; David Bainbridge. How to build a digital library. Book San Francisco, Calif. : Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. |
| Digital preservation | Agency to Researcher (AtoR) Digital Preservation Project. National Archives of Australia. Digital preservation, Technology & Policy : presentations. (2002-12-13) Website Workshop held December 13, 2002, at the National Library of the Netherlands. LOCKSS. Website The LOCKSS ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") program website. Reference model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). PDF ConsultativeCommittee for Space Data Systems, 2002-01. CCSDS 650.0-B-1 Blue Book. |
| Dublin Core | DC-Library Application Profile (DC-Lib). (2000-08-06) Dekkers, Makx; Stuart Weibel. "State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, April 2003". D-Lib Magazine, 9(4), April 2003. Dublin Core Anniversary Celebration. (2003-02-28) Photographs of the event. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Website Expressing Simple Dublin Core in RDF/XML. Guenther, Rebecca. DC-Library Application Profile (DC-Lib). Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, 2002-09-24. Working draft. Hillmann, Diane. Using Dublin Core. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, 2003-08-26. Kurth, Marty. MARC to DC XML at CUL. (2002-09-20) PowerPoint MARC to Dublin Core Crosswalk. Cornell University Library, 2002-09-19. Ruddy, David. DC Library Application Profile. (2001-09-21) PowerPoint Snijder, Ronald. Metadata standards and information analysis : a survey of current metadata standards and the underlying models. (2001) |
| Electronic Resource Management | Chandler, Adam. Report on the Digital Library Federation Electronic Resource Management Initiative (ERMI), with a focus on XML schema for e-Resource licenses, plus news about CUL's implementation of III's ERM product. (2004-09-24) PowerPoint Cornell ERM implementation : project web site. Website DLF Electronic Resource Management Initiative. Website Digital Library Federation. Electronic Resource Management : the report of the DLF Initiative. HTML, PDF Digital Library Federation, 2004-08-18. A Web hub for developing administrative metadata for electronic resource management. Website |
| Encoding standards | Encoded Archival Description (EAD). Website MARCXML : MARC 21 XML Schema. Website Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Website |
| Geospatial metadata | Chandler, Adam; Dan Foley; Alaaeldin M. Hafez. "Mapping and converting essential Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata into MARC21 and Dublin Core : towards an alternative to the FGDC Clearinghouse". D-Lib Magazine, 6(1), January 2000. Chandler, Adam; Elaine Westbrooks; Vivek Uppal. Fun with geospatial metadata, CUGIR, CORC, MARC, and OAI : the CSDGM to MARC grant project. (2001-10-12) PowerPoint Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM). Website Federal Geographic Data Committee. Content standard for digital geospatial metadata workbook, version 2.0. PDF Federal Geographic Data Committee, 2000-05-01. Corson-Rikert, Jon; Elaine Westbrooks; Adam Chandler. Making and identifying digital objects : the CUGIR 2.0 approach. (2002-10-25) PowerPoint CUGIR : Cornell University Geospatial Data Information Repository. Website An FGDC clearinghouse node. Example of CUGIR metadata. HTML, XML, text/plain, SGML Foley, Dan. "Metadata in a digital special library : the Energy and Environmental Information Resources Center in Lafayette, Louisiana". (1999) Journal of Southern Academic and Special Librarianship, 1(2). Hart, David; Hugh Phillips. Metadata primer : a "how to" guide on metadata implementation. National States Geographic Information Council, 1998. |
| Harvesting | JISC Information Environment architecture. Website Lagoze, Carl. Breaking down the walls : moving libraries from collectors to portals. PowerPoint Lagoze, Carl; Herbert Van de Sompel. The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PHM). (2002-06-14) Lynch, Clifford A. "Metadata harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative". ARL Bimonthly Report 217, August 2001. Open Achives Initiative (OAI). Website Warner, Simeon. "Exposing and harvesting metadata using the OAI metadata harvesting protocol : a tutorial". High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine, Issue 4, June 2001. |
| Identifiers | Chandler, Adam. The ARK persistent identifier scheme. (2002-10-25) PowerPoint Overview of ARK. Corson-Rikert, Jon; Elaine Westbrooks; Adam Chandler. Making and identifying digital objects : the CUGIR 2.0 approach. (2002-10-25) PowerPoint Daigle, Leslie L. Uniform Resource Names (URNs) : next generation Internet identifiers. (1998-04-14) PDF Digital Object Identifier System (DOI). Website Hakala, Juha. Identification of electronic resources : identifiers and resolution services. (2003-01-29) PowerPoint Kozak, George. Naming and identifying digital objects. (2002-10-25?) PowerPoint Kunze, John; R.P.C. Rodgers. The ARK persistent identifier scheme. (2004-07-31) text/plain Persistent Identifiers: Report of the CUL Working Group. (2006-04-21) Persistent Universal Resource Locator (PURL). Website Ruddy, David. Why identifiers? (2002-10-25) PowerPoint An overview of naming and identifiers. Rust, Godfrey. Emerging standards for identifiers and metadata. (1999) PDF SICI : Serial Item and Contribution Identifier standard. Website "Uniform Resource Names: a progress report". D-Lib Magazine, February 1996. URI.NET. Website A clearinghouse for standards, registration procedures, status, software and news related to Uniform Resource Identifiers, etc. |
| Image metadata | CLiMB, Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building. Website CLiMB, Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building : first year report, March 2002 - February 2003. (2003-06) PDF CLiMB : Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building. PowerPoint Center for Research on Information Access, Columbia University Libraries, 2003-10-03. Cornell University Image Collections. Website Uses the Insight browser. Dale, Robin. NISO Z39.87 Developments. (2005-05-31) PowerPoint Hirtle, Peter. Metadata and cross-collection searching in Luna's Insight. (2002-03-15) PowerPoint NISO Z39.87-2002 : Data Dictionary, Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images. Website NISO, 2002. Proposed draft standard for a set of metadata required to manage digital image collections. Rieger, Oya; Danielle Mericle. Z39.87 at DCAPS. (2005-05-20) PowerPoint VRA Core 4.0 Beta. Website Visual Resources Association, 2005-12-14. The working draft of the updated metadata scheme of the Visual Resources Association Data Standards Committee. |
| MARC | "856 - Electronic location and access". MARC 21 concise format for bibliographic data. Library of Congress, 2003. Kurth, Marty. MARC to DC XML at CUL. (2002-09-20) PowerPoint MARC to Dublin Core Crosswalk. Cornell University Library, 2002-09-19. MARCXML : MARC 21 XML Schema. Website |
| Metadata | Baca, Murtha. Introduction to metadata : pathways to digital information. New York : Getty Information Institute, 1998. Bruce, Tom. Metadata quality. (2004-05-21) PowerPoint Calhoun, Karen. Metadata in satellite images, or, an administrator’s view . (2003-08-15) PowerPoint Dushay, Naomi. Metadata and information visualization. (2004-03-19) PowerPoint Hillmann, Diane. Proposal for a Metadata Consulting Service for Cornell University Library. (2001-09-21) MS Word Hodge, Gail. Metadata made simpler. PDF NISO Press, 2001. Rust, Godfrey. Emerging standards for identifiers and metadata. (1999) PDF Snijder, Ronald. Metadata standards and information analysis : a survey of current metadata standards and the underlying models. (2001) Weibel, Stuart. "Metadata : the foundations of resource description". D-Lib Magazine, July 1995. |
| METS | Fleischhauer, Carl. Case history : Library of Congress audio-visual prototyping project. (2004-07-22) PowerPoint Kehoe, Bill. METS revisited. (2003-12-19) PowerPoint METS : Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard. Website Ruddy, David. METS : Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard. (2002-04-19) PowerPoint |
| Ontologies | Adams, Katherine. "The semantic Web: differentiating between taxonomies and ontologies". HTML, PDF Online, Jul/Aug 2002, Vol. 26, Issue 4. Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS). Website Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Agricultural Ontology Service. Wikipedia. Corson-Rikert, Jon. Ontologies: what, why, and how? (2003-04-18) PowerPoint Cover, Robin. Resource description and classification. A collection of references on matters of Subject Classification, Taxonomies, Ontologies, Indexing, Metadata, Metadata Registries, Controlled Vocabularies, Terminology, Thesauri, Business Semantics. Lagoze, Carl. Breaking down the walls : moving libraries from collectors to portals. PowerPoint Lagoze, Carl. Harmony project. (2002-06-21) PowerPoint Lagoze, Carl; Jane Hunter. The ABC metadata ontology and model. (2001-10-25) PowerPoint Presentation given at DC-2001. Lagoze, Carl; Jane Hunter. The ABC ontology and model. (2001) PDF Lowe, Brian. Introduction to ontologies : adding meaning to metadata. (2007-02-16) PowerPoint Markup languages and ontologies. Noy, Natalya F.; Deborah L. McGuinness. Ontology Development 101: a guide to creating your first ontology. (2000?) PDF Protege Ontologies Library. Website Protg. Website Protg is an ontology editor and a knowledge-base editor. Protg is also an open-source, Java tool that provides an extensible architecture for the creation of customized knowledge-based applications. Resource Description Framework (RDF). Website Sowa, John F. Guided tour of ontology. (2001) Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). Website U.S. National Library of Medicine. VIVO: Virtual Life Sciences Library. Website VIVO brings together in one site all library resources that support the Cornell New Life Sciences Initiative. VIVO also serves as a curated index to life science research, facilities, and instruction at Cornell, and to selected external resources. |
| Portals | Fereira, John. uPortal: a framework for the personalization of library services. (2004-02-20) PowerPoint Lagoze, Carl. Breaking down the walls : moving libraries from collectors to portals. PowerPoint uPortal by JA-SIG. Website VIVO: Virtual Life Sciences Library. Website VIVO brings together in one site all library resources that support the Cornell New Life Sciences Initiative. VIVO also serves as a curated index to life science research, facilities, and instruction at Cornell, and to selected external resources. |
| Preservation metadata | Caplan, Priscilla. "PREMIS - Preservation Metadata - Implementation Strategies Update 1. Implementing Preservation Repositories for Digital Materials: Current Practice and Emerging Trends in the Cultural Heritage Community". RLG DigiNews, 8(5), Oct. 15, 2004. Caplan, Priscilla. Preservation metadata : the PREMIS experience. (2004-11-05) PowerPoint Digital Archive Attributes Working Group. Website Research Libraries Group. McGovern, Nancy. Content Information. (2002-02-15) MS Word Summary of "A recommendation for content information", OCLC-RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata. McGovern, Nancy; Bill Kehoe. Preservation metadata. (2002-02-15) PowerPoint McGovern, Nancy Y. Preservation metadata resources. (2002-02-15) MS Word PREMIS (PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies). Website Preservation metadata and the OAIS information model : a metadata framework to support the preservation of digital objects. PDF OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata, 2002-06. Working meeting on preservation metadata, April 25, 2003. Website Cornell University Library Instruction, Research, and Information Services, 2003-04-25. |
| Quality | Bruce, Tom. Metadata quality. (2004-05-21) PowerPoint Dushay, Naomi. Metadata and information visualization. (2004-03-19) PowerPoint Liddy, Elizabeth D. Generating and evaluating metadata . (2003-03-21) PowerPoint |
| RDF | Expressing Simple Dublin Core in RDF/XML. Lowe, Brian. Introduction to ontologies : adding meaning to metadata. (2007-02-16) PowerPoint Resource Description Framework (RDF). Website Silterra, Enrico. RDF, RSS and all that. (2004-04-23) PowerPoint |
| Registries | Hillmann, Diane; Jon Phipps. The NSDL Registry. (2006-06-16) PowerPoint Hillmann, Diane; Stuart Sutton; Jon Phipps; Ryan Laundry. A Metadata Registry from Vocabularies Up: The NSDL Registry Project. (2006) PDF |
| Rights | Hirtle, Peter. Rights Metadata for Digital Collections. (2006-03-31) PowerPoint Hirtle, Peter. Section 108 Study Group Update : Questions from the March Roundtables. (2006-03-31) PowerPoint Westbrooks, Elaine. Language Data and Rights. (2006-03-31) PowerPoint |
| Schemas | Clark, James. Trang : multi-format schema converter based on RELAX NG. Heery, Rachel; Manjula Patel. "Application profiles : mixing and matching metadata schemas". (2000-09-24) Ariadne, Issue 25. RELAX NG home page. Website Schematron. Website A language for making assertions about patterns found in XML documents. St. Laurent, Simon. Creating schemas while preserving your sanity : RELAX NG and a markup core. (2004-01-16) Website |
| Searching | Bergmark, Donna. Focused crawling and collection synthesis. (2002-12-20) PowerPoint Hirtle, Peter. Metadata and cross-collection searching in Luna's Insight. (2002-03-15) PowerPoint Lindahl, David; Jeff Suszczynski. CUIPID Project: Catalog User-Interface Platform for Iterative Development. (2005-02-18) PowerPoint Metasearch Initiative. Website National Information Standards Organization (NISO). Samuels, Harry. Federated Searching: the ABC's of HSE, XML, & Z39.50. (2004-08-27) PowerPoint SRW/SRU : Search and Retrieve Web Service. Website ZING, Z39.50 International: Next Generation. |
| Visualization | Dushay, Naomi. Metadata and information visualization. (2004-03-19) PowerPoint |
