research organisation that aims to inform practice and influence policy in the areas of: digital libraries, information systems, bibliographic management, and web technologies
The Metadata blog is the official blog of the Metadata Interest Group (MIG), an interest group of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services division of the American Library Association.
In addition to reporting on Interest Group activities, ALA conference sessions relating to metadata, the blog is a central place to find and share items of interest to the library metadata world. Contributions include summaries of articles or research, links to educational opportunities, calls for papers, descriptions of interesting projects, conference reports, requests for assistance, or anything else of potential interest to the community. Posts may contain original content or link to existing content, as appropriate.
Metadata is an unsung hero of the modern world, the plumbing that makes the information age possible. This course describes how Metadata is used as an information tool for the Web, for databases, and for the software and computing applications around us.
Download Digitization Metadata Editor. Digitization Metadata Editor is a Content Management System for Digital Libraries. It's a complex web-based system supporting all essential steps in the de
Rimmf is a a visualization tool for cataloguers, to help them to get used to thinking RDA, instead of thinking AACR/MARC, as well as a cataloging training tool, to help educators teach RDA thinking.
"A light-weight cross browser javascript microformats 2 parser
which can also be used in browser extensions."
Created by Glenn Jones and released under the MIT License.
- spezielle Felder für die Referenzierung von Forschungadaten -
CiTO, the Citation Typing Ontology, is an ontology for the characterization of citations, both factually and rhetorically. It forms part of SPAR, a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies.
"…describe bibliographic things on the semantic Web in RDF. This ontology can be used as a citation ontology, as a document classification ontology, or simply as a way to describe any kind of document in RDF. It has been inspired by many existing document description metadata formats, and can be used as a common ground for converting other bibliographic data sources."
As it is often the case for social software services, online reference managers are becoming powerful and costless solutions to collect large sets of metadata, in this case collaborative metadata on scientific literature.
The TOTEM registry is used to record the complex hardware and software relationships which apply to digital objects, and to make them visible to the digital preservation community. TOTEM was created by the University of Portsmouth, Future Proof Computing Group
CLARIN proposes a component-based approach: you can combine several metadata components (sets of metadata elements) into a self-defined scheme that suits your particular needs. Of course you can share your profile with others (in fact we strongly advise that). If sharing the full profile is not an option, you still can use common components, e.g. a component to describe a sound recording. In case that still does not address your needs, it is even possible to create components yourself.The CLARIN project (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) is a large-scale pan-European collaborative effort to create, coordinate and make language resources and technology available and readily useable.
ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object) is a XML Schema that details technical metadata for describing the layout and content of physical text resources, such as pages of a book or a newspaper. It most commonly serves as an extension schema used within the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Schema (METS) administrative metadata section. However, ALTO instances can also exist as a standalone document used independently of METS.
Quand on s'intéresse aux moteurs de recherche, aux différentes migrations et bouleversements numériques qu'ils occasionnent, tant dans nos pratiques quotidiennes qu'au niveau de l'économie de l'information en général et de celle des biens culturels en particulier, le plus délicat est de disposer d'une vue d'ensemble permettant d'apprécier et d'analyser l'ensemble de l'écosystème en question.
a joint project of several national libraries, implemented and hosted by OCLC. The project's goal is to lower the cost and increase the utility of library authority files by matching and linking the authority files of national libraries, and then making that information available on the Web.
On pourrait définir le web des données comme étant le projet de rendre le web (et les informations qu’il véhicule) aussi aisément lisible et exploitable par des ordinateurs que par des êtres humains, en faisant sauter les spécificités de structuration des données propres à chaque base de données fournissant des informations sur internet. Etant donné qu’il naît de plusieurs frustrations dans le fonctionnement du web « normal », et que sa dénomination suscite souvent des incompréhensions, peut-être est-il bon de commencer par là.
J. Frey, und S. Hellmann. 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems Proceedings (SEMANTiCS 2017) - Posters & Demonstrations Track, (September 2017)
M. de la Iglesia. document | archive | disseminate graffiti-scapes. Proceedings of the goINDIGO 2022 International Graffiti Symposium, Seite 175-187. (2023)