In the "Wild West" of digital library projects, pioneering information specialists have uncovered successful solutions, learned what to avoid, and how to proceed amid constant change. As administrator of "AskDCMI," Diane Hillmann has fielded hundreds of questions from implementers. This new collection of reports from the field, co-edited by Hillmann, is an opportunity for librarians to learn from the experience of others involved in technically diverse digital library archive projects. Part One illustrates projects serving teachers, universities, Canadian educators, statewide collaborations, and geographical information, while Part Two addresses future trends. Considering these examples, with their unvarnished "lessons learned," librarians will derive answers to such technical questions as: What are the major standards relevant to digital libraries? How do these elements relate to one another and to traditional library practices? How do planners integrate cutting edge metadata issues into project planning? What does the future hold for harvesting, re-use, and re-purposing of information? Sharing detailed results in candid reports, the contributors provide valuable information not readily available anywhere else. This collection offers project planners, metadata librarians, systems and technical services librarians, and catalogers a problem-solving approach and real-world supplement for their metadata needs.
Author(s): Diane I. Hillmann, Elaine L. Westbrooks
Publisher: American Library Association
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 304
City: Chicago
TeamLiB......Page 0
Cover......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 6
FIGURES......Page 8
TABLES......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 12
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
1 Building an Education Digital Library: GEM and Early Metadata Standards Adoption......Page 20
2 Building Heritage Colorado: The Colorado Digitization Experience......Page 36
3 Museums and Metadata: A Shifting Paradigm......Page 56
4 The Eye of the Beholder: Challenges of Image Description and Access at Harvard......Page 70
5 Building a Metadata-Sharing Campus: The University of Minnesota IMAGES Initiatives......Page 89
6 Crosswalking Citation Metadata: The University of California's Experience......Page 108
7 CanCore: Semantic Interoperability for Learning Object Metadata......Page 123
8 The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Metadata Development and Use......Page 136
9 Distributing and Synchronizing Heterogeneous Metadata in Geospatial Information Repositories for Access......Page 158
10 The Internet Scout Project's Metadata Management Experience: Research, Solutions, and Knowledge......Page 177
11 Lessons Learned from the Illinois OAI Metadata Harvesting Project......Page 193
12 Community-Based Content Control......Page 210
13 Building an Open Language Archives Community on the DC Foundation......Page 222
14 Mixed Content and Mixed Metadata: Information Discovery in a Messy World......Page 242
15 The Continuum of Metadata Quality: Defining, Expressing, Exploiting......Page 257
16 Metadata Futures: Steps toward Semantic Interoperability......Page 276
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 291
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