Irresistible Metadata

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Irresistible Metadata
Presentation given to the ALCTS Networked
Resources and Metadata Committee June 25, 1999
New Orleans, LA Mary Woodley Cataloger, Getty
Research Institute for the History of Art and the
Humanities mwoodley_at_getty.edu
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http//www.getty.edu/gri/exhibit/virtual/id/
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Dublin Core Elements
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Getty Index by UltraSeek
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Standards (1)
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Standards (2)
No standards equals no controlled vocabulary
equals bibliographic chaos Michael
Gorman Organizing the Internet the core of
the challenge (Ron Chepesiuk) AL Jan. 1999 p. 62.
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Issues

• Interpretation and use of elements
• Dot.Syntax construction to refine the meaning
• of elements
• Domain-specific elements (locally defined)
• Future developments, e.g., Dublin Core 2.0

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Dot.syntax
ltMETA NAME"DC.Creator.PersonalName.2"
CONTENT"Lyons, Claire L., 1955-"gt ltLINK
REL"SCHEMA.dc" HREF "http//purl.org/metada
ta/dublin_core_elementscreator"gt ltMETA
NAME"DC.Creator.PersonalName.Address.2"
CONTENT"clyons_at_getty.edu"gt ltLINK
REL"SCHEMA.dc" HREF "http//purl.org/metadata/du
blin_core_elementscreator"gt
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Dates

• Dates
• Date available on Web
• Date of original manifestation
• Date of surrogate
• Date of content/subject
• Dot.syntax
• Date.Available
• Date.Modified
• Date.CreationofIntellectual Content

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Subject Coverage

• Subject Keyword Subject phrases using controlled
• vocabularies
• Topical
• Time/Place
• Individuals/Corporate bodies
• Coverage
• Geospatial
• Periodname
• Placename

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Resource Type, Format Form/Genre

• Resource Type
• Resource Type Term which describes the type or
  genre of the content of the resource. Use an
  enumerated list
• Text Software Service
• Image Interactive Collection
• Sound Physical Object
• Dataset Event
• Format
• Format of resource, e.g., text/html, image/jpeg.
  Use an enumerated list based on the IMT (Internet
  Media Types) scheme.
• Form/ Genre terms
• Use in Subject field and AAT terms for the
  specific format (Albumen Prints)

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Relation Source

• Relation
• The unique string or number for a related
  resource.
• Use an enumerated list for resource schemes
  descriptor (e.g. ISBN, LCCN).
• Source
• Information concerning another resource from
  which the resource being describe is derived.
  Used to record information not found in the
  Relation element.
• Use Relation with appropriate dot.syntax
  subelement or Relation unqualified.

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Relation with Dot.Syntax
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DC GEM Elements
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Local Metadata Elements

• ltmeta name"GEM.audience.toolFor.1" scheme"GEM"
  lang"eng" content"Teaching Professionals"gt
• ltmeta name"GEM.audience.beneficiary.1"
  scheme"GEM" lang"eng" content"Gifted or honors
  students"gt

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Bibliography (1)

• Creating Metadata (Templates)
• http//purl.oclc.org/dc/tools/index.htm
• Nordic DC metadata creator
• http//www.lub.lu.se/cgi-bin/nmdc.pl
• Nordic Metadata Project DC to MARC converter
• http//www.bibsys.no/meta/d2m/

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Bibliography (2)

• Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS)
  Manual for Users. Office of Government
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  sal.html.

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Bibliography (3)

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