Metadata for Digital Resources

Metadata for Digital Resources: Implementation, Systems Design and Interoperability (Chandos Information Professional Series)

Part 1: Introduction　--　イントロダクション

• 1　What is metadata?

1. The increasing importance of matadata
2. Metadata creators
3. Metadata in digital library applications
4. Location of metadata
5. Thinking widely about metadata
6. Organistaion of this metadata
7. Notes

Part 2: Implementation of metadata creation activistes

• 2 Choosing metadata standards for a digital library project

1. Metadata for a purpose
2. Factors to consider
3. Functions of metadata standards
4. Using multiple standards
5. Notes

• 3 Creating metadata usage guidelines

1. Continuing to plan
2. Topics to cover in metadata usage guidelines
3. Writing, testing, and refining usage guidelines
4. Notes

• 4 Creating metadata

1. The metadata creation process
2. Designing a metadata creation workflow
3. User interfaces for metadata creation
4. Creating metadata directly in XML
5. Benefits of Learning XML technologies
6. Qualitiy control for metadata creation
7. Notes

• 5 Practical implementation of a metadata strategy

1. Staffing
2. What it means to be a metadata specialist
3. Integrating metadata work into a larger infrastructure
4. Financial implications
5. Notes

Part 3: Systems dedsign

• 6 Functions perfomed by a digital library system

1. The user at the centre of the system design
2. Digital library system functions
3. Metadata for a purpose
4. Notes

• 7 Metadata that dries discovery functionality

1. The role of user studies
2. Analysing metadata for planning systems
3. Serching
4. Browsing
5. Advanced discovery functionality
6. Results display
7. Notes

Part 4: Metadata interoperability

• 8 Defining interoperability

1. Why sharing?
2. Collections and services
3. Faces of interoperability
4. The challenge of making collections usable by multiple systems
5. Balancing interoperability with local needs

• 9 Interoperability and resource discovery

1. Resource discovery
2. Resource discovery in other connected systems
3. Generalist search engines
4. Portals and registries
5. Automatic discovery mechanisms
6. Notes

• 10 Thechnical interoperability

1. Centralised and decentralised search indexes
2. Data aggregation
3. Identifying and locating resources
4. Transforming metadata records
5. Notes

• 11 Content interoperability: shareable metadata

1. Some models for aggregating and using metadata from diverse source
2. The current state of aggregations
3. Creating shareable metadata
4. Notes

Part 5: Conclusion

• 12 The future of metadata

1. Web 2.0 ideas: participation and mashups
2. Defining a strategy for metadata management
3. Evolving institutional missions
4. Notes

Metadata for Digital Resources: Implementation, Systems Design and Interoperability (Chandos Information Professional Series)