Cataloging the Web: Metadata, AACR, and MARC 21Wayne Jones, Judith R. Ahronheim, Josephine Crawford These papers, presented at ALCTS' July 2000 Preconference on Metadata for Web Resources by a virtual who's who of the digital world, provide a timely overview of the challenges and difficulties of bringing order to a most unruly medium. Topics range from carefully considered viewpoints to possible standards to actual how-to's. |
Contents
Metadata and Libraries Whats It All About? | 3 |
CATALOGING THE WEB AACR AND MARC 21 | 13 |
AACR2 Complexities Necessary and Otherwise The Delsey Report the Cardinal Principle and ER Harmonization | 15 |
O Brave Old World Using AACR to Catalog Web Resources | 21 |
Struggling toward Retrieval Can Alternatives to Standard Operating Procedures Help? | 27 |
AACR2 and Seriality | 31 |
ISSN Link and CrossLink for Data and Metadata | 35 |
MARC 21 as a Metadata Standard A Practical and Strategic Look at Current Practices and Future Opportunities | 41 |
Interpretive Encoding of Electronic Texts Using TEI Lite | 103 |
Developing the Use of Metadata at the National Library of Medicine From DecisionMaking to Implementation | 109 |
Integrating BioCollection Databases Metadata in Natural History Museums | 113 |
The Colorado Digitization Project An Overview | 119 |
The Instructional Management System IMS Standard Solutions for Interactive Instructional Software and Dynamic Learning | 123 |
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words Metadata for Art Objects and Their Visual Surrogates | 131 |
Navigating LCs Cartographic Treasures | 139 |
VARIATIONS Creating a Digital Music Library at Indiana University | 149 |
CATALOGING THE WEB OTHER APPROACHES OTHER STANDARDS | 45 |
Visionary or Lunatic One CORC Participants Psychiatric Evaluation | 47 |
Working toward a Standard TEI Header for Libraries | 53 |
Libraries and the Future of the Semantic Web RDF XML and Alphabet Soup | 57 |
Archival Finding Aids as Metadata Encoded Archival Description | 65 |
ISO Standards Development for Metadata | 71 |
TOOLS FOR CATALOGING THE WEB | 79 |
MARCit Magic Abracadabra From a Web Site to a MARC Record | 81 |
Anticipating the Deluge The INFOMINE Project and Its Approach to Metadata | 87 |
DIGITAL LIBRARIES PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE STANDARDS | 101 |
DDI the Data Documentation Initiative An Introduction to the Standard and Its Role in Social Science Data Access | 155 |
Dublin Core for Digital Video Clips | 169 |
CONCLUSION WHERE ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? | 177 |
Metadata Hype and Glory | 179 |
Future Developments in Metadata and Their Role in Access to Networked Information | 183 |
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About the Editors | 193 |
About the Contributors | 195 |
Common terms and phrases
AACR AACR2 American Library Association Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Archival Description Association bibliographic record catalog record CDWA Center Character Set codebook collection Committee CORC create Creator crosswalk currently data elements database describe developed digital library document Dublin Core Dublin Core Metadata electronic resources element set Encoded Archival Description example field Figure finding aid format Group header identify images indexing INFOMINE Initiative integrating International Standard Internet resources ISSN issues keyword Language SEL String librarians library catalogs Library of Congress Location MARC 21 MARC record MARCit materials meta metadata schemes metadata standards Museum National Network NISO OCLC Resource Description Framework retrieval revision search engines serials SGML specific structure Technical Services Text Encoding Initiative University users xml:lang