Cultural heritage professionals have high levels of training in metadata. However, the institutions in which they practice often depend on support staff, volunteers, and students in order to function. With limited time and funding for training in metadata creation for digital co…
A framework for the theory and practice of organizing that integrates the concepts and methods of information organization and information retrieval.
Organizing is such a common activity that we often do it without thinking much about it. In our daily lives we organize physical things -- books on shelves, cutlery in kitchen drawers -- and digital things -- Web pages, MP3 files, scientific datasets. Millions of people create a…
This book describes OCLC's contributions to the transformation of the Internet from a web of documents to a Web of Data. The new Web is a growing "cloud" of interconnected resources that identify the things people want to know about when they approach the Internet with an inform…
Introduction / Jung-ran Park, Lynne C. Howarth -- Organizing bibliographical data with RDA : how far have we stridden toward the semantic web? / Sharon Q. Yang, Yan Yi Lee -- Keeping libraries relevant in the semantic web with RDA : resource description and access / Barbara B. T…
New Directions in Information Organization, co-edited by Dr. Jung-ran Park and Dr. Lynne Howarth seeks to provide an overview and understanding of the future directions, leading edge theories and models for research and practice in information organization.
Metadata research has emerged as a discipline cross-cutting many domains, focused on the provision of distributed descriptions (often called annotations) to web resources or applications. Such associated descriptions are supposed to serve as a foundation for advanced services in…
Metadata research has emerged as a discipline cross-cutting many domains, focused on the provision of distributed descriptions (often called annotations) to Web resources or applications. Such associated descriptions are supposed to serve as a foundation for advanced services in…
Explore the practices and cutting-edge research on the new and exciting topic of paradataParadata are measurements related to the process of collecting survey data. Improving Surveys with Paradata: Analytic Uses of Process Information is the most accessible and comprehensive con…
"Paradata are measurements related to the process of collecting survey data. 'Improving Surveys with Paradata: Analytic Uses of Process Information' is the most accessible and comprehensive contribution to this up-and-coming area in survey methodology. Featuring contributions fr…
An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata is a reaction to the current digital library landscape that is being challenged with growing online collections and changing user expectations. The theory provides the conceptual underpinnings for a new approach which moves away fro…
Managing ebook Metadata in Academic Libraries: Taming the Tiger tackles the topic of ebooks in academic libraries, a trend that has been welcomed by students, faculty, researchers, and library staff. However, at the same time, the reality of acquiring ebooks, making them discove…
