Metadata - 81 Resources

Overview

1)Information that refers to one or more other pieces of information that can exist as separate physical forms. In short, data about data. Any type of description can be considered metadata. Examples include library catalog information, encoded text file headers, and driver's license data. In the information technology world the term is often used to indicate data which refers to digital resources available across a network. <p> 2)Metadata describes the attributes of an information bearing object (IBO) - document, data set, database, image, artifact, collection, etc.; metadata acts as a surrogate representation of the IBO. A metadata record can include representations of the content, context, structure, quality, provenance, condition, and other characteristics of an IBO for the purposes of representing the IBO to a potential user - for discovery, evaluation for fitness for use, access, transfer, and citation. See also, Meta-information. Examples of metadata format are the MARC format used by the library community Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata developed by the Federal Geographic Data Committee Directory Interchange Format (DIF) used by NASA's Global Change Master Directory Government Information Locator Service (GILS), and Dublin Core set of attributes for electronic resources developed with the lead of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC).

Publications (46)

EDUCAUSE publications address a diverse range of professional challenges in higher education IT, from updates on current developments to explorations of important overarching issues. Listed below are the full range of research, reports and other publications that EDUCAUSE and its members have written about Metadata.

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Item ID	Title	Resource Category	Pub Date	Views	Ranking
CSD2657	Special Collections in ARL Libraries: A Discussion Report from the ARL Working Group on Special Collections Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Contributions	03/26/2009	474
CSD5640	An Arbitrage Opportunity for Image Search and Retrieval Ray Uzwyshyn Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Contributions	06/02/2009	67
CSD5723	Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Contributions	08/31/2009	76
CSD1608	Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative Clifford Lynch Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Contributions	01/01/2001	5,326
CLR1002	Preserving the Whole: A Two-Track Approach to Rescuing Social Science Data and Metadata Ann Green, JoAnn Dionne, and Martin Dennis Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/1999	3,563
ERM9763	The Year of Metadata Steve Griffin and Tom Wason Articles, Papers, and Reports	Educom Review (Archives)	01/01/1997	2,978
CSD1695	Author-generated Dublin Core Metadata for Web Resources: A Baseline Study in an Organization Jane Greenberg, Maria Cristina Pattuelli, Bijan Parsia and W. Davenport Robertson Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2001	3,902
CSD1766	Metadata Principles and Practicalities Erik Duval, Wayne Hodgins, Stuart Sutton, and Stuart L. Weibel Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2002	3,824
CSD2976	The Intellectual Property Rights Issues Facing Self-archiving: Key Findings of the RoMEO Project Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim, and Steve Probets Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2003	3,516
CSD2977	Generation of XML Records across Multiple Metadata Standards Kimberly S. Lightle and Judith S. Ridgway Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2003	3,114
CSD3098	Federated Searching Interface Techniques for Heterogeneous OAI Repositories Xiaoming Liu, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Qiaoling Hong, Michael L. Nelson, Frances Knudson and Irma Holtkamp Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2003	3,177
CSD3234	Merging Metadata and Content-Based Retrieval Dave Deniman, Tamara Sumner, Lynne Davis, Sonal Bhushan and Jackson Fox Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	2,814
CSD3325	Understanding Metadata NISO Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	2,613
CSD3415	Metasearch and Usability: Toward a Seamless Interface to Library Resources Susan A. Elliot Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	2,874
CSD3624	A Repository of Metadata Crosswalks Carol Jean Godby, Jeffrey Young and Eric R. Childress Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	2,279
CSD3627	Gateway to Educational Materials/GEM Consortium Programs and Projects	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	2,484
CSD3637	Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Programs and Projects	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	2,224
CSD2971	Task Force Recommendation 2.3 Research and Design Review: Improving User Access to Library Catalog and Portal Information Marcia J. Bates Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2003	3,930
CSD3338	Enriching the Catalog Roy Tennant Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	2,637
CSD3623	Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH Framework Herbert van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Carl J. Lagoze, and Simeon Warner Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	2,380
CSD3735	Metadata for Education - an FAQ Certification, Education, Training and Tutorials	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	1,849
CSD3791	Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata Adam Mathes Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	2,470
CSD3859	"What Are Your Terms?" Pete Johnston Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2005	2,453
CSD4050	Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! Making sense of it all Lars Marius Garshol Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	2,446
CSD4238	Descriptive Metadata for Copyright Status Karen Coyle Articles, Papers, and Reports	Community Recommendation	01/01/2005	1,955

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Presentations (8)

Stepping away from the distractions of normal routine to meet with peers, share experiences, and learn together can be invaluable. EDUCAUSE places great emphasis on the face-to-face meeting experience, offering you numerous opportunities throughout the year to gather with colleagues - from small regional events and special topic meetings to large, national conferences covering the full spectrum of roles and issues important to higher education. For more information on EDUCAUSE conferences and seminars, please see our Frequently Asked Questions page. Listed below is the full range of presentations EDUCAUSE and its members tagged with Metadata

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CSD3360	Technology in Support of Learning and Teaching Various Authors Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2002	2,907
CSD3368	The Future of Scholarship in the Digital Age Various Authors Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2004	3,086
NEC0002	CNI Fall 2000: Closing Address Herbert Van de Sompel Presentations/Speeches	Community Recommendation	01/01/2000	4,193
EDU01102	A GEM of a Resource: The Gateway to Educational Materials Nancy Virgil Morgan Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	01/01/2001	4,553
EDU0133	MyDatabase: A Generic Tool for Image Collections Caroline Beebe Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	01/01/2001	5,581
SAC0502	Principles of Distributed Representation Stephen Downes Presentations/Speeches	SAC (Archives)	08/09/2005	2,032
LIVE069	Building a National Science Digital Library Dean B. Krafft Presentations/Speeches	Web Seminars EDUCAUSE	01/01/2006	2,819
EDU06064	Uncovering the Science in Computer Science: Challenges for the 21st Century Vinton G. Cerf Presentations/Speeches	EDUCAUSE Annual	10/10/2006	1,980

Podcasts (8)

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