The death of metadata

Serials Librarian

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 55-74

  Beall, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dublin Core; Information retrieval; MARC formats; Metadata

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751306945     PISSN: 0361526X     EISSN: 15411095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J123v51n02_05     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. The archive of the Metadata Librarians list is on the Web at: http://listserver. dreamhost.com/pipermail/metadatalibrarians-monarchos.com; The archive of the LITA-L list is on the Web at: http://lp-web.ala.org:8000/
2. Priscilla Caplan, e-mail to Lita-L mailing list, October 11, 2004.
3. David Dornan, e-mail to Lita-L mailing list, October 10, 2004.
4. Louise Ratliff, e-mail to Lita-L mailing list, October 11, 2004.
5. Jeffrey Beall, "Dublin Core, an Obituary," Library Hi Tech News, 21, no. 8 (2004).
6. Karen Coyle, e-mail to Lita-L mailing list, October 9, 2004.
7. Diane Hillman, e-mail to Lita-L mailing list, October 10, 2004.
8. Elaine Westbrooks, e-mail to Metadata Librarians list, October 26, 2004.
9. Sherry Vellucci, "Metadata and Authority Control," Library Resources and Technical Services 44, no. 1 (2000): 34.
10. Michael Gorman, "Authority Control in the Context of Bibliographic Control in the Electronic Environment," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 38, no.3-4 (2004): 15.
11. Gorman, "Authority Control," 15.
12. Gorman, "Authority Control," 16.
13. Gorman, "Authority Control," 19.
14. Cory Doctorow, "Metacrap: Putting the Torch to Seven Straw-Men of the Meta-Utopia." http://www.well.com/doctorow/metacrap.htm
15. Cory Doctorow, "Metacrap."
16. Stuart Weibel, "Border Crossings: Reflections on a Decade of Metadata Consensus Building," D-Lib Magazine 11, no. 7/8 (2005), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/weibel/07weibel.html
17. Yannis Ioannidis, "Digital Libraries at a Crossroads," International Journal on Digital Libraries, 5: (2005): 256.
18. Dick C.A. Bulterman, "Is it time for a Moratorium on Metadata?" IEEE Multimedia, v. 11, no. 4 (2004): 13.
19. For an opposing view of MARC, see: Tennant, Roy, "MARC Must Die," Library Journal, v. 127, no 17 (Oct. 15, 2002): 26
20. and Tennant, Roy, "MARC Exit Strategies," Library Journal, v. 127, no. 19 (Nov. 15, 2002):27-8.
21. Library of Congress, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)," Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/marc/faq.html