Metadata & New ICT applications

Required Resources:

• Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information - Setting the Stage (PDF) http://www.getty.edu/research/conduåcting_research/standards/intrometadata/pdf/swetland.pdf

Outline:

This week's material takes the form of the reviews that you have posted to your blogs earlier this month, and that been the subject of comments from you classmates. The issues that we will havecovered will hopefully include (but are not limited to):

• digitization
• preservation
• open source: software and other forms
• copyright
• consortia
• open content
• standards and specifications
• metadata
• content management solutions
• e-prints
• identifiers
• internet services
  • remote services
  • local access
• repositories: preprints, federating
  • institutional
  • pre-print
  • federated access/searching

Developed 2005 by Dr. Norm Friesen