Indiana University Digital Library Program
Metadata Discussion Group Online Archive
2010/2011 Academic Year
May 19, 2011: Greenberg, Jane. (2007) "Advancing the Semantic Web via Library Functions." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 43: 3, 203-225.
April 14, 2011: Riley, Jenn and Kelcy Shepherd. (2009) “A Brave New World: Archivists and Shareable Descriptive Metadata.” The American Archivist, 72: 1, 91-112.
March 10, 2011: Doctorow, Cory. (2001) “Metacrap:
putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia.” Available
online at http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm.
Ardö, Anders. (2010) “Can We Trust Web Page Metadata?” Journal
of Library Metadata, 10: 1, 58-74. Available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19386380903547008.
Session notes <http://metadatadiscuss.blogspot.com/2011/03/summary-of-mdg-session-03-10-11.html>
February 3, 2011: Ascher, James P. (Fall 2009) “Progressing
toward Bibliography; or, Organic Growth in the Bibliographic Record.” RBM:
a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage vol. 10,
no. 2. Available online at http://progressivebibliography.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/95.pdf. Session
notes <http://metadatadiscuss.blogspot.com/2011/03/summary-of-mdg-session-02-03-11.html>
November 11, 2010: Bowen, Jennifer. "Moving Library Metadata
toward Linked Data: Opportunities Provided by the eXtensible Catalog" In Proceedings
of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications,
edited by Diane I. Hillman and Michael Lauruhn, 44-59. Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative, Pittsburgh, October 20-22, 2010. Available online at http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/ojs/pubs/article/view/1010/979.
October 7, 2010: Singer, Ross. (April-June 2009). "Linked Library Data Now!" Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 114-126.
September 7, 2010: Harper, Corey A. (Winter 2010). "Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Beyond the Element Set." Information Standards Quarterly 22, no. 1. Available online at http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/free/FE_DCMI_Harper_isqv22no1.pdf.
2009/2010 Academic Year
May 20, 2010: Coyle, Karen. (February/March 2010) "RDA Vocabularies for a Twenty-First-Century Data Environment." Library Technology Reports 46, no. 2/3.
Apr. 15, 2010: Coyle, Karen. (January 2010) "Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata." Library Technology Reports 46, no. 1.
Mar. 11, 2010: Summers, Ed, Antoine Isaac, Clay Redding, Dan Krech. (2008) "LCSH, SKOS and Linked Data." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, DC-2008. http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/ojs/pubs/article/view/916.
Feb. 18, 2010: Hillmann, Diane, Karen Coyle, Jon Phipps, and Gordon Dunsire. (January/February 2010) "RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use." D-Lib Magazine 16, no. 1/2. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january10/hillmann/01hillmann.html
Jan. 21, 2010: Yee, Martha M. (June 2009). "Can Bibliographic Data Be Put Directly onto the Semantic Web?" Information Technology and Libraries, 28(2): 55-80.
Dec. 17, 2009: Nilsson, M., P. Johnston, et al. (2006). "Towards an interoperability framework for metadata standards." Metadata for Knowledge and Learning: Proceedings of DC-2006, Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, 3-6 October 2006. Available online at http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/ojs/pubs/article/view/835/831.
Nov. 19, 2009: Bowen, Jennifer. (June 2008). "Metadata to support next-generation library resource discovery: lessons from the eXtensible Catalog, Phase 1." Information Technology and Libraries 27(2): 6-19.
Oct. 15, 2009: Nunberg, Geoff. "Google Books: A Metadata Train Wreck" Language Log blog, August 29, 2009. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1701. Be sure to read at least the first few comments, specifically the second comment left by Jon Orwant (Google engineer on the GBS team) on September 1, 2009 @ 1:51 am.; AND Nunberg, Geoff. "Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars," The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 31, 2009. http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Book-Search-A/48245/.
Session notes
Sept. 17, 2009: Schaffner, Jennifer. (May 2009). "The Metadata is the Interface: Better Description for Better Discovery of Archives and Special Collections." Report produced by OCLC Research. Published online at: http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2009-06.pdf.
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2008/2009 Academic Year
May 28, 2009: Smith-Yoshimura, Karen. 2009. "Networking Names." Report produced by OCLC Research. Published online at: http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2009-05.pdf
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Apr. 23, 2009: Nellhaus, Tobin. (2001) "XML, TEI, and Digital Libraries in the Humanities." portal: Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 257-277.
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Mar. 26, 2009: Allinson, Julie, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell. (January 2007) "A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works." Ariadne 50.
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Feb. 12, 2009: Alexander, Arden and Tracy Meehleib (2001). "The Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Its History, Use, and Future." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 31(3/4): 189-212.
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Jan. 29, 2009: Chris Freeland, Martin Kalfatovic, Jay Paige, and Marc Crozier. (December 2008). "Geocoding LCSH in the Biodiversity Heritage Library." The Code4Lib Journal 5. Available online from http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/52.
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Dec. 18, 2008: Kurth, Marty, David Ruddy, and Nathan Rupp. (2004). "Repurposing MARC metadata: using digital project experience to develop a metadata management design." Library Hi Tech 22(2): 153-165.
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Nov. 20, 2008: Cundiff, Morgan V. (2004). "An Introduction to the Metadata Encoding and Transmission
Standard (METS)." Library Hi Tech 22(1): 52-64.
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Oct. 16, 2008: Eklund, Janice. (2007) "Herding Cats: CCO, XML, and the VRA Core."
VRA Bulletin 34, no. 1: 45-68.
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Sept. 20, 2008: Greenberg, Jane. (2005). "Understanding Metadata and Metadata Schemes."
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 40, no. 3/4: 17-36.
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2007/2008 Academic Year
May 27, 2008: Hagedorn, Kat, Suzanne Chapman, and David Newman. (July/August 2007).
"Enhancing search and browse using automated clustering of subject metadata." D-Lib Magazine 13, no. 7/8.
Available from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july07/hagedorn/07hagedorn.html.
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Apr. 22, 2008: Borbinha, José. (2004). "Authority control in the world of metadata."
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 38, no. 3/4: 105-116.
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Mar. 18. 2008: Yakel, Elizabeth, Seth Shaw, and Polly Reynolds. (May/June 2007).
"Creating the Next Generation Archival Finding Aids." D-Lib Magazine 13, no. 5/6.
Available from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/yakel/05yakel.html.
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Feb. 26, 2008: Chapman, John. (October 2007). "The Roles of the Metadata Librarian in a Research Library."
Library Resources & Technical Services v. 51 no. 4: 279-285.
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Jan. 29, 2008: Elings, Mary W. and Günter Waibel. (March 2007).
"Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums." First Monday 12, no. 3.
Available from http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_3/elings/index.html.
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Nov. 27, 2007: Gilliand, Anne J. "Setting the Stage."
In Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information, ed. Murtha Baca. Online edition, version 2.1.
Available from http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/setting.pdf.
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