Indiana University Digital Library Program
Metadata Discussion Group Online Archive
2009/2010 Academic Year
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/.
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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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