Lorcan Dempsey's weblog (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
A wide range of presentations from the Dublin Core conference held this week in Berlin is available. Much of general interest about the use of metadata in different domains and the semantic web, and lots of specific descriptions of tools, techniques, and initiatives, .......
eFoundations (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Next week I'll be attending the DC-2008 conference of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative in Berlin. I'll be attending the meeting of the Usage Board over the weekend (cue my usual grumbles about weekend meetings: if I'm not paying full...
eFoundations (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
DCMI announced yesterday the availability for public comment of the document Expressing Dublin Core description sets using XML (DC-DS-XML). (Disclaimer: Andy and I are co-authors of the document!) This document, a DCMI Proposed Recommendation, describes an XML format called "DC-DS-XML"...
eFoundations (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
I'm less involved in Dublin Core metadata discussions than I used to be but a brief exchange on one of the DC lists caught my eye and reminded me how confusing the concepts underpinning metadata on the Web can be....
Jon Udell (Free subscription) | 22/10/2007
My guest for this week’s ITConversations podcast is Stuart Weibel, a researcher for the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) who’s now a scholar in residence at the University of Washington. We talked about Stu's decade of involvement with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative1, and about the nature and uses of the OCLC's WorldCat database. [...]
Frontier Blog (Free subscription) | 27/09/2007
Metadata is structured data which describes the characteristics of a resource. It shares many similar characteristics to the cataloguing that takes place in libraries, museums and archives. The term “meta” derives from the Greek word denoting a nature of a higher order or more fundamental kind. A metadata record consists of a number of pre-defined [...]
The Software Abstractions Blog (Free subscription) | 26/09/2007
Nova Spivack, during his recent talk about the Semantic Web (covered in my previous post ), made the point that addition of semantic processing to the underlying index for a search engine, make the issue of trust more serious. This...
Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 21/09/2007
Check out LaTisha D. Lankford's Master's Paper, Guide for Cataloging Legal Websites: Using MARC and Dublin Core. Here's the abstract:For many catalogers, web sites that are pertinent to their users’ needs are particularly challenging to catalog. While AACR2 has addressed...
