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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Metadata

What Do Researchers Need? Higher Education IT from the Researcher’s Perspective

August 17, 2006

Research methods, research subjects, the composition of research teams, and collaborative practices have all been affected in ways that are important to those who manage research and information …

Building a National Science Digital Library

January 1, 2006

Since 2000, the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Core Integration team has been creating the infrastructure for a digital library of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics resou…

Open Access Federation for Library and Information Science

January 1, 2006

Self-archiving, the practice of depositing one's works in an OAI-compliant archive, is a key strategy for innovating scholarly communication and achieving open access. DL-Harvest, a subject se…

Automated Capture of Thumbnails and Thumbshots for Use by Metadata Aggregation Services

January 1, 2006

The practice of including thumbnails in short record displays, increasingly common in local implementations, is being adopted by metadata aggregation service providers as well. In addition, thumbna…

Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags?

January 1, 2006

"In this article we look at what makes folksonomies work. We agree with the premise that tags are no replacement for formal systems, but we see this as being the core quality that makes folkso…

Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination

January 1, 2006

© 2006 Jerry D. Campbell EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 1 (January/February 2006): 16–31. Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination Jerry D. Campbell…

What Is a Digital Library Anymore, Anyway?

January 1, 2005

The authors explore how digital libraries have evolved over the years and what form they have now taken."This paper describes an information model for digital libraries that intentionally move…

Descriptive Metadata for Copyright Status

January 1, 2005

The need to express the intellectual property rights of digital materials has focused on access and usage permissions which must be granted by the rights holder. A key set of permissions not acknow…

Principles of Distributed Representation

August 9, 2005

To a large degree, learning resource metadata is viewed as a single, static entity. An alternative approach will be presented here, one where metadata has multiple authors, is distributed across mu…

Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! Making sense of it all

January 1, 2004

To be faced with a document collection and not to be able to find the information you know exists somewhere within it is a problem as old as the existence of document collections. Information Archi…