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Cataloguer Makeover

Violeta Ilik

The document discusses possibilities for improving how libraries manage and disseminate information using semantic web technologies. It outlines tools like VIVO and Karma that can integrate relational data into RDF format. Examples show how Karma can be used to model person, position, and organization data from files into RDF triples. The conclusion states that while semantic technologies still have barriers, tools now exist to help libraries apply linked data principles.

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Cuerpo Academico 'Estudios de la Información'

This document summarizes the existing challenges and opportunities in the cataloguing and metadata function of Southampton Solent University. It discusses how the university has shifted to primarily electronic resources and moved to enrich metadata through standards like RDA. It also touches on balancing metadata quality with completeness while avoiding duplication through techniques like WEMI and FRBRization. The future of metadata is discussed as being enriched, linked, open and filtered.

A theory of Metadata enriching & filtering

Presentación del Dr. Getaneh Alemu (Solent University, Reino Unido), en el II Congreso de Información, Comunicación e Investigación (CICI 2018) “Metadatos y Organización de la Información”. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, México. Evento organizado por el Cuerpo Académico 'Estudios de la Información' y el Grupo Disciplinar ‘Información, Lenguaje, Comunicación y Desarrollo Sostenible’. 29 de octubre de 2018.

Designing Metadata to Meet User Needs for Special Collections

This document discusses metadata and its importance for digital libraries and humanities. It defines metadata as "data about data" that describes resources to help users find, identify and select them. Metadata plays a crucial role in managing the huge amount of digital information and data available. The document advocates for an approach of enriching metadata by allowing both experts and users to contribute, and filtering it through customizable interfaces to meet diverse user needs.

From the principle of sufficiency and necessity to metadata enriching

In contrast to the principle of metadata simplicity and sufficiency, the principle of metadata enriching can be considered a departure from traditional cataloguing approaches where the focus was on metadata simplicity. Metadata created and managed following the principle of metadata enriching better responds to users’ needs. Whilst the principle of enriching results in a potential abundance of metadata, the principle of filtering is used to simplify its presentation by enabling a user-centred/focused/led design.

Metadata enriching and discovery at Solent University Library

This document discusses metadata enriching and discovery at Solent University. It begins with introductions and context about how enriched, linked, open and filtered metadata drives resource usage. It then discusses several principles of metadata including sufficiency, necessity, user convenience, representation and standardization. The document outlines how Solent University has enriched its metadata by importing subject headings and authorities. It discusses metadata linking, openness, filtering and usage. Overall it emphasizes the importance of enriching metadata and keeping interfaces simple while maximizing resource discovery and usage.

DLF Aquifer MODS Implementation Guidelines

The document discusses guidelines for creating shareable MODS metadata records for the DLF Aquifer initiative. It provides an overview of the Aquifer project and its goal of aggregating digital collections. The guidelines were developed to promote consistent, coherent metadata that is understandable and useful outside local contexts. It outlines required and recommended MODS elements and provides examples to allow varying levels of functionality for end users searching and browsing aggregated collections. Current and future work includes validation tools and converting between MODS and MARC formats.

MODS and RDA - ALA MidWinter 2007

- The document discusses shareable metadata, the Metadata Object Description Standard (MODS), and the Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard. - Shareable metadata promotes search interoperability across systems, is understandable outside its local context, is useful outside its local context, and is machine-processable. - MODS is a simplified version of MARC that uses XML and is a useful middle ground between MARC and Dublin Core for library applications. - RDA is a content standard that is closely aligned with MARC and MODS, and examples of RDA implementation in MODS would be useful.

Searching the Deep Web

Valerie Forrestal

The document defines the deep web as dynamically generated content stored in protected databases, including files like pictures, videos, and documents in formats other than plain text. It also includes paid subscription content and raw data stored in databases that requires querying languages to access. Social media updates and blog posts are another component. The document provides tips for deep web searching such as using vertical search engines for specific topics or adding terms like "database" or "search" to queries. It lists library resources for more information on the deep web.

Current metadata landscape in the library world (Getaneh Alemu)

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

The document summarizes the current metadata landscape in libraries. It discusses what metadata is, existing metadata challenges like growing collections and changing user expectations. It covers common metadata standards like MARC21, Dublin Core and frameworks like FRBR. The document emphasizes that metadata enables functions like search, discovery and organization. It discusses metadata enrichment through user tagging and linking metadata to controlled vocabularies. The future of metadata is seen as enriched, linked, open and filtered to meet changing needs.

Research Students2009

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The document summarizes library resources and how LIS staff can help researchers at the university. It includes overviews of the extensive electronic journal collections, databases, citation searching tools, current awareness services, document supply, and access to other libraries. LIS staff can provide advice on database selection, different search approaches, additional learning resources, and access to resources outside of the university. A variety of library tutorials are also available.

Clark - Metadata is the Message

Metadata enriching and discovery

Slides from a webinar presentation organised by ALCTS -A division of the American Library Association - February 19th 2020. http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/021920 The return on investment for academic libraries is chiefly tied to access, usage, and impact. Without accurate, consistent, and quality metadata on the one hand, and an easy-to-use and effective discovery service on the other, these valuable resources may remain invisible and inaccessible to users. In this webinar, four overarching metadata principles, namely metadata enriching, linking, openness, and filtering, are presented. In addition, presenters will examine how these ideas help shape the metadata creation and discovery services at Solent University—focusing on the implementation of RDA and FRBR as well as the use of subject authority headings and authority controls.

Metadata enriching and filtering for enhanced collection discoverability

The return on investment for academic libraries is chiefly tied to access, usage and impact. Without accurate, consistent and quality metadata on the one hand, and an easy-to-use and effective discovery service on the other, these valuable resources may remain invisible and inaccessible to users. In this talk, Getaneh aims to present four overarching metadata principles, namely: metadata enriching, linking, openness and filtering. And how these ideas help shape the metadata creation and discovery services at Solent University – focusing on the implementation of RDA and FRBR as well as the use of subject headings and authority controls.

The role of metadata for discovery: tips for content providers

Marianne E. Giltrud, MSLS

This presentation was made on 17th February 2022 at the NISO PLUS 2022 Conference. It offers an overview of IFLA’s LRM (FRBR) tasks, namely finding, identifying, selecting, obtaining, and exploring information resources. It points out that metadata is key for content distribution, visibility, discoverability, accessibility, sales and usage. https://np22.niso.plus/Category/28a52f1d-a477-43e8-a7dc-abd009383a57

VRA_2015_CatalogingRoundup_Seneff

Heather Seneff

This document describes a case study where the University of Denver used Getty vocabularies as linked open data in a cataloging tool for an academic teaching collection. The tool was designed with a user-friendly interface, Dublin Core metadata, and integrated authority control drawn from sources like ULAN, AAT, and Library of Congress. Screenshots show how materials could be cataloged and metadata exported to other systems using standards from the semantic web like URIs, RDF, and SPARQL. The tool helped increase efficiency and quality of metadata production for the teaching collection.

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Brian Tingle

This document discusses a research project that developed tools to extract biographical authority records from archival finding aids. The project built a large test corpus of Encoded Archival Context - Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) records and created a prototype system to access these records. Future directions discussed include integrating the merged data back into archival access systems, scaling up the sources of archival finding aids, and adding more linked open data.

Lice on the Web: A workshop on the new Phthiraptera website

Vince Smith

Endeca

The document discusses the Endeca Search software, including its functionality like keyword searching, relevance ranking, and faceted classification. It also covers how Endeca is extensible through features like taxonomy trees and thesaurus creation. Examples are given of how Endeca has been implemented at institutions like North Carolina State University and in applications like Harvard Business Online.

Current metadata landscape in the library world Getaneh Alemu

This workshop was presented at MTSR-2017 (Nov. 27, 2017) in Tallinn, Estonia http://www.mtsr-conf.org/index.php/programme The workshop aims to bring the current metadata landscape in libraries in context, with particular emphasis on emerging theory/principles and best practices covering: • The theory of enriching and filtering • Metadata enriching through RDA (Hands on - The RDA Toolkit and implementation of RDA at Southampton Solent University) • Metadata filtering through FRBR (practical issues that cataloguers face in FRBRising their catalogue) • Metadata management (metadata quality, authority control and subject headings) • Metadata systems, tools and applications (practical issues of e-books and database cataloguing)

Exploring a world of networked information built from free-text metadata

Shenghui Wang

This document summarizes a presentation about exploring topics through networked information extracted from free-text metadata. It describes challenges in exploring topics and related aspects. It then demonstrates an online interface called Ariadne that addresses these challenges by generating semantic representations of entities from a large dataset and identifying nearest neighbors and related entities through multidimensional scaling. Finally, it discusses potential applications of this approach and references related work.

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