Anne J. Gilliland - Introduction to Metadata, pathways to Digital Information
- Metadata - sum of what one can say about any information object.
- Content relates to what the object contains or is about and is intrinsic to an information object.
- Context indicates the who, what, why, where and how aspects.
- Structure relates to the formal set of associations within or among individual information objects.
- An Internet resource provider might use metadata to refer to information that is encoded in HTML.
- The Dublin Core Metadata element Set identifies a relatively small, generic set of metadata elements that can be used by any community, expert, or nonexpert to describe and search across a wide variety of information resources.
- A primary function of metadata is the description and ordering of original objects or items in a repository or collection.
- Metadata does not have to be digital. Can be recorded in formats like card catalogs, vertical files, and file labels.
- Metadata allows repositories to track the many layers of rights, licensing, and reproduction information that exist for original items as well as for their related information objects and the multiple versions of those information objects.
An Overview of the Dublin Core Data Model
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an international effort designed to foster consensus across disciplines for the discovery-oriented description of diverse resources in an electronic environment.
- A formalized data model is required to support the DCMI functional requirement for a modular, extensible, metatdata architecture.
- Many disciplines additionally use classification schemes, controlled vocabularies or thesauri to describe the content or resources.
EndNote X5: Introduction
- EndNote is a leading bibliographic software product on the market.
- You can use EndNote to import citations from saved literature searches.
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