Understanding metadata and its purpose

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 160-163

  Coyle, Karen ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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EID: 15844416856     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2004.12.010     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. This quip is alternately attributed to Tom Delsey, of the National Library of Canada ("Metadata: Cataloguing for Men"), and Michael Gorman ("... metadata is cataloging done by men").
2. The XML standard is defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (at http://www.w3.org/XML/), but many XML applications standards are defined by other groups, such as the e-business standards group, OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org/).
3. http://www.w3.org/RDF/.
4. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/.
5. The 15 Dublin Core elements are as follows: Contributor, Coverage, Creator, Date, Description, Format, Identifier, Language, Publisher, Relation, Rights, Source, Subject, Title, Type. For more information, see http://dublincore.org.
6. http://www.creativecommons.org.
7. Lawrence Lessig is the author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (New York: Basic Books, c1999);
8. Lessig L. The Future Of Ideas: The Fate Of The Commons In A Connected World (New York: Random House, 2001);
9. Lessig L. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology And The Law To Lock Down Culture And Control Creativity (New York: Penguin Press, 2004).
10. http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/.