By: Wayne Jones, Judith R. Ahronheim, Josephine Crawford, Rebecca Guenther (Contribution by)

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These papers, presented at ALCTS' July 2000 Preconference on Metadata for Web Resources by a virtual who's who of the digital world, provide a timely overview of the challenges and difficulties of bringing order to a most unruly medium. Topics range from carefully considered viewpoints to possible standards to actual how-to's.

The papers will be inspirational for their focused interrogations of the appropriateness of traditional methods in conjunction with the benefits of newer standards and innovative softwares...will be of practical value to all working in this exciting area. Library and Information Update The papers, by an impressive array of key players, cover both background issues and descriptions of real-world applications of metadata in an alphabet soup of projects. Portals A comprehensive overview of current thoughts and theories of Web control via metadata. ...Cataloging the Web, unlike other works, compiles essays on varying forms of metadata and it will no doubt be useful as a background source on particular projects, methods, and schemas. -- Kristi L. Palmer Journal Of Internet Cataloging This is essential reading for those who wish to become metadata librarians and a noteworthy reference for others. Curious librarians can use this as an instructional work to help understand the nomenclature and new acronyms. I recommend this work to archivists, library managers, library students, catalogers, Web designers, and computer experts. Olac Newsletter This book would be a worthwhile purchase for catalogers that are, or will be, involved in the cataloging of Internet resources. Administrators will also find much of the book very useful. Technicalities

Preface: Meting Out Data	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Metadata and Libraries: What's It All About?	p. 3
Cataloging the Web: AACR and Marc 21	p. 13
AACR2 Complexities, Necessary and Otherwise: The Delsey Report, the Cardinal Principle, and (ER) Harmonization	p. 15
O, Brave Old World: Using AACR to Catalog Web Resources	p. 21
Struggling toward Retrieval: Can Alternatives to Standard Operating Procedures Help?	p. 27
AACR2 and Seriality	p. 31
ISSN: Link and Cross-Link for Data and Metadata	p. 35
MARC 21 as a Metadata Standard: A Practical and Strategic Look at Current Practices and Future Opportunities	p. 41
Cataloging the Web: Other Approaches, Other Standards	p. 45
Visionary or Lunatic: One CORC Participant's Psychiatric Evaluation	p. 47
Working toward a Standard TEI Header for Libraries	p. 53
Libraries and the Future of the Semantic Web: RDF, XML, and Alphabet Soup	p. 57
Archival Finding Aids as Metadata: Encoded Archival Description	p. 65
ISO Standards Development for Metadata	p. 71
Tools for Cataloging the Web	p. 79
MARCit Magic: Abracadabra! From a Web Site to a MARC Record	p. 81
Anticipating the Deluge: The INFOMINE Project and Its Approach to Metadata	p. 87
Digital Libraries: Practical Applications of the Standards	p. 101
Interpretive Encoding of Electronic Texts Using TEI Lite	p. 103
Developing the Use of Metadata at the National Library of Medicine: From Decision-Making to Implementation	p. 109
Integrating Bio-Collection Databases: Metadata in Natural History Museums	p. 113
The Colorado Digitization Project: An Overview	p. 119
The Instructional Management System (IMS) Standard: Solutions for Interactive Instructional Software and Dynamic Learning	p. 123
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Metadata for Art Objects and Their Visual Surrogates	p. 131
Navigating LC's Cartographic Treasures	p. 139
VARIATIONS: Creating a Digital Music Library at Indiana University	p. 149
DDI, the Data Documentation Initiative: An Introduction to the Standard and Its Role in Social Science Data Access	p. 155
Dublin Core for Digital Video Clips	p. 169
Conclusion: Where Are We? Where Are We Going?	p. 177
Metadata: Hype and Glory	p. 179
Future Developments in Metadata and Their Role in Access to Networked Information	p. 183
Index	p. 189
About the Editors	p. 193
About the Contributors	p. 195
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ISBN: 9780810841437
ISBN-10: 0810841436
Series: ALCTS Papers on Library Technical Services & Collections
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 208
Published: 4th December 2001
Dimensions (cm): 27.7 x 21.5  x 1.1
Weight (kg): 0.494