Where Metadata Fails: An Experiment on A University Website

Prof Justin Zobel, Chair of Computational Bioinformatics, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne
Date: Tuesday 7th October 2008
Time: 11.00-12.00
Place: VERSI, Ground floor Brownless Biomedical Library(where the old Telars people used to be)

PRISM Cookbook

http://www.prismstandard.org/
Alexandria, VA – July 8, 2008- PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata), an IDEAlliance Working Group, today announces the availability of the new PRISM Cookbook. The Cookbook is designed to assist new users by providing step-by-step recipes to implement PRISM.

OCLC Crosswalk Web Service Demo

http://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks/xwalk/
Introduction
The purpose of the Crosswalk Web Service (CWS) is to translate a group of metadata records from one format into another.
For this service, a metadata format is defined as a triple of:

standard – The metadata standard of the record (e.g. MARC, DC, MODS, etc …)
structure – The structure of how the metadata is [...]

Metadata Tools Forum Outputs Now Available

Dear Colleagues,
The May 8, 2008 RLG Programs Metadata Tools Forum, hosted by the Boston Public Library, brought together nine tool developers and their intended user communities together.  These tools were developed to expedite metadata creation or editing.  They were selected for the forum because they could be used by multiple institutions [...]

ECSIG May08 meeting

http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/ECSIG_May08_meeting
presentations include;
Open content and learning on Wikiversity
JorumOpen
Early reflections on the Casper Project

Metadata and Digital Repositories

http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/6th_May_2008%2C_Bolton
presentations from  the SIG meeting are available

Metadata

http://www.rsp.ac.uk/pubs/briefingpapers-docs/repoadmin-metadata.pdf
Metadata is information about information. According
to NISO it is “structured information that describes,
explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to
retrieve, use, or manage an information resource”1.
Objects stored in an institutional repository are always
accompanied by metadata records. This briefing
paper introduces the different uses of metadata within
an institutional repository and explores how such
metadata can be defined.

RSP Release two new briefing papers

http://www.rsp.ac.uk/news/news2008-04-15-morebps.php
The RSP is pleased to announce the publication of two further briefing papers:
Workflows [ Paper ]
This paper explores the topic of workflows as a break-down of the administrative tasks needed within a repository. In particular the paper offers information about creating and managing submission workflows.
Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting [ Paper ]
This paper details [...]

Report on metadata for digital libraries is published

JISC Technology and Standards Watch is pleased to announce that the report, Metadata for Digital
Libraries: state of the art and future directions, by Richard Gartner, has been published.
The digital library as a stand-alone entity is becoming harder to define. Whilst the richness and variety of information resources and digital collections that are made available on [...]

PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata V2.0

http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/v2/premis-2-0.pdf
The PREMIS Editorial Committee have announced the release of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, version 2.0. This document is a revision of Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: Final report of the PREMIS Working Group, issued in May 2005. The PREMIS Data Dictionary and its supporting documentation is a comprehensive, practical resource for implementing [...]