Australian Network for Early European Research
Toby Burrows presented the paper
Reinventing the Humanities in a Networked Environment: the Australian
Network for Early European Research at the UK Digital Resources in the
Humanities conference in September 2005. The Network for Early European
Research (NEER), with funding from the Australian Research Council and based
at the University of Western Australia, aims to broaden and deepen research
in the field of medieval and early modern studies. Its digital agenda has
two complementary strands – the provision of access to commercial databases
and creation of resources for and by the Network itself. It has negotiated
access to selected ProQuest and Brepols databases for participants in small,
isolated institutions. It hosts links to an electronic version of the
refereed Australian and New Zealand journal, Parergon, which is available
directly to subscribers as well as through services like Project Muse in
North America. It has established its own digital repository for research,
including articles, books and conference papers. It is promoting and
improving access to relevant objects in Australian public collections, aided
by partnerships with libraries, museums and galleries. Other intentions
include the development of postgraduate skills and partnerships with
commercial database providers. Web: http://www.neer.arts.uwa.edu.au/. Paper
abstract at
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/
Cyberinfrastructure for Social Sciences
The National Science Foundation’s report
NSF SBE-CISE Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure and the Social Sciences
(May 2005) explores tools, economics, impacts and other issues relating to
the development of cyberinfrastructure for the social and behavioral
sciences. Recommendations revolve around better ways of collecting and using
data sets, improving communication systems, redesigning the Internet,
developing better trends and decision support systems, and improving
productivity and effectiveness. Web:
http://vis.sdsc.edu/sbe/reports/SBE-CISE-FINAL.pdf.
Theatres in Melbourne
Louise Blake, in Rescuing the Regent
Theatre (Provenance: the Journal of Public Record Office Number 4,
2005), explores the origins of the Regent Theatre and other Melbourne
theatres and the campaign to save them in the 1960s and 1970s. Web: http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/provenance/
Higher education service for general public
Di Martin, in The M25 Consortium
Initiatives on Resource Discovery (New Review of Academic Librarianship
vol 10, no 2, 2004: 139-153) discusses issues and challenges for regional
resource discovery through the InforM25, a service that integrates online
services for higher education and research communities and the general
public in London. Web: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/
Libraries, archives and museums
The Research Libraries Group’s RLG News Fall
2005 highlights issues discussed at the New York forum Libraries, Archives
and Museums: Three-ring Circus, or One Big Show? Michael Fox, Minnesota
Historical Society said: “In a world where educational and cultural
institutions face dwindling financial support, both private and public, none
of us will thrive unless we can make the case that we provide compelling,
essential, and unique value to a significant public.” Kenneth Soehner,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, said: “Librarians are fanatical about
cooperative projects…But all of these consortial arrangements have
necessitated very few changes, structural, organisational, or philosophical,
within the individual organisations. These are exchange or contractual
relationships. They are additive, as opposed to transformational.” Wendy
Duff, from the University of Toronto, said: “Convergence does not mean
homogeneity.” Speakers suggested that that the sectors create alignment by
retooling educational programs in order to connect professionals early on in
their careers. Web: http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20521.
Eulalia Roel, in The MOSC project: Using
the OAI-PMH to Bridge Metadata Cultural Differences Across Museums,
Archives, and Libraries (Information Technology and Libraries vol 24, no
1 2005, pp 22-24) discuss the Music of Social Change (MOSC) project,
undertaken by Emory University Libraries, in collaboration with the Center
for the Study of Southern Culture, the Atlanta History Center, and the
Georgia Music Hall of Fame, to develop a new model for
library-museum-archives collaboration. The project will use OAI-PMH as a
tool to bridge widely varying metadata standards and practices across
museums, archives, and libraries. Web: http://www.lita.org/ala/lita/litapublications/ital/italinformation.htm
The Journal of Internet Cataloging, volume 7, no 1, 2004, available via
Hawthorn Press http://www.haworthpressinc.com, focuses on collaborative
access to virtual museum collection information. Articles include
Searching for Nirvana: Cataloging and the Digital Collection at the
Experience Music Project by Marsha Maguire and others (pp.9-31), looking
at the development of rules and tools for cataloguing artefacts and their
digital reproductions in Seattle’s Experience Music Project (http://www.emplive.org/),
an interactive museum dedicated to rock 'n' roll and other forms of popular
music. Kody Janney’s Collaborative Cataloging: Using Dublin Core to
United Local Heritage Organizations (pp 33-48) discusses a project by
University of Washington Libraries, Museum of History & Industry and other
small local heritage organisations to make available selected images online
with assistance from IMLS (http://content.lib.washington.edu/collaborations.html).
Elizabeth Nelson and Laurie Gemmill in Building a Common Catalog for
Cultural Heritage Repositories: A Case Study of the Ohio Memory Online
Scrapbook (pp 49-63) look at the development of a catalogue of resources
in over 300 cultural heritage repositories in Ohio, involving use of Dublin
Core, other metadata standards and adoption of controlled vocabularies.
(http://www.ohiomemory.org/).
Library Hi Tech, vol 23, no 2, 2005 http://www.emeraldinsight.lht.htm
includes Ken Middleton’s Collaborative digitization programs: a
multifaceted approach to sustainability (pp 145-150) and Katherine
Wisser’s Meeting Metadata Challenges in the Consortial Environment:
Metadata Coordination for North Carolina Exploring Cultural Heritage Online
(pp 164-171).
Approaches and funding
RLG Diginews August 15, 2005 includes Watch
This Space: Ten Promising Digital Preservation Initiatives. The promising
initiatives are: The National Digital Information Infrastructure and
Preservation Program (such as ECHO DEPository Project), Digital Archiving
and Long-Term Preservation program (such as Incentives for Data Producers to
Create Archive-ready Data Sets), Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset
Management in Institutions Program (such as Digital Asset Management Tool) ,
the Metadata Research Center projects (such as Metadata Generation
Research), SURF programs (such as Digital Academic Repositories – DARE),
Systemic Infrastructure Initiative (such as Australian Partnerships for
Sustainable Repositories), JISC’s Digital Preservation and Records
Management programs (such as Digital Curation Centre), Andrew L Mellon
Foundation programs (such as Auditing and Certification of Digital
Archives), DELOS Digital Preservation Cluster programs (such as Digital
Preservation Cluster), and National Archives and Records Administration
research programs (such as Virtual Archives Laboratory). Web: http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20744
Costume collections
Jeff Trzeciak presented the paper
Developing a Collaborative Library/Museum Historic Garment Database at
the UK Digital Resources in the Humanities conference in September 2005. The
paper describes steps for creating two-dimensional image databases
representing three-dimensional museum objects for the purpose of
instruction, based on on the Digital Dress project at Wayne State
University. The project digitised the Dorothea June Grossbart Historic
Costume Collection of over 400 garments and accessories from the 19th and
20th centuries. With a grant of US$250,000 from the Institute of Museum and
Library Services, the project expanded to include metadata and images from
Detroit Historical Museums, Henry Ford Museum and Meadow Brook Hall.
Conference abstract: http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/. Costume collections:
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/.
Enabling research and education
The US National Science Board has released a
report by Chris Greer, Long-Lived Digital Data Collections: Enabling
Education and Research in the 21st Century. The report is critical of
the National Science Foundation’s piecemeal, incremental approach for
managing digital data. It proposes strategies revolving around clear
technical and financial requirements and recommends: (1) clarification of
current investments in resource and reference digital data collections; (2)
development of an agency-wide umbrella strategy for supporting and advancing
long-lived digital data collections; (3) evaluation of ‘community–proxy
functions’ acquired and supported by organisations; (4) more effective
evaluation of digital data components or research proposals; (5) ensuring
that relevant education and training are available and effectively
delivered; and (6) development of career paths for data scientists to ensure
that the research enterprise includes a sufficient number of high-quality
data scientists. Web:
http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/documents/2005/LLDDC_report.pdf.
Future – wider deployment?
Clifford Lynch, in Where Do We Go From
Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries (D-Lib July/August 2005),
begins: “The field of digital libraries has always been poorly defined, a
‘discipline’ of amorphous borders and crossroads, but also of atavistic
resonance and unreasonable inspiration” attracting dreamers and engineers,
visionaries and entrepreneurs, a diversity of social scientists, lawyers,
scientists and technicians and librarians. Compelling areas for future
research and development include: personal information management and
related digital medical records, e-portfolios in the education environment,
the overall shift of communications to email, and the amassing of very large
personal collections of digital content; long term relationships between
humans and information collections and systems; the role of digital
libraries, digital collections and other information services in supporting
teaching, learning, and human development, from early childhood to old age;
and active environments for computer supported collaborative work offer the
starting point for another research program. He concludes: “Perhaps the
overarching theme..is connecting and integrating digital libraries with
broader individual, group and societal activities, and doing this across
meaningful time horizons that recognize digital libraries and related
constructs as an integral and permanent part of the evolving information
environment. The next decade for digital libraries may well be characterised
most profoundly by the transition from technologies and prototypes to the
ubiquitous, immersive, and pervasive deployment of digital library
technologies and services in the broader information and information
technology landscape.” Web:
http://www.dlib.org/
Future – a single digital library?
William A. Arms in A Viewpoint Analysis of
the Digital Library (D-Lib July/August 2005) explores the question,
should digital libraries be self-sufficient islands or should we strive for
a single global digital library? He says we need to rethink specifications
and evaluation of digital libraries, which tend to be based on an
organisational viewpoints rather than user viewpoints. “About twenty years
ago, independent computer networks began to merge into the single unified
Internet that we take for granted today. Perhaps now is the time for digital
libraries to strive for the same transition, to a single Digital Library.”
Web: http://www.dlib.org/
Institutional repositories
D-Lib September 2005 has two articles
analysing institutional repositories. In the first, Gerard van Westrienen
and Clifford Lynch, in Academic Institutional Repositories: Deployment
Status in 13 Nations as of mid 2005, conclude that, although
institutional repositories are becoming well established as campus
infrastructure components, their development is still at a very immature
stage. The acquisition of content is still the central issue for most
institutional repositories. It will be important to gain a better
understanding of the extent to which institutional repositories are
necessary and of their part in a broader national and international context
the managing scholarly materials. In the second, Institutional Repository
Deployment in the United States as of Early 2005, Clifford Lynch and
Joan Lippincott conclude that they “represent a critically important new
policy and operational role for research libraries, and one that renews
their connection with the core academic processes of the university”. Web:
http://www.dlib.org
Mass digitisation programs
Brian Lavoie, Lynn Connaway and Lorcan
Dempsey, in Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: the Example of Google Print
for Libraries (D-Lib September 2005, look at collection overlap and
uniqueness patterns in the context of large-scale digitisation programs such
as the Google initiative. They conclude: “As mass digitization programs
become more common, many are likely to originate within the library
community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google.
For library-initiated..programs especially, it is imperative that
digitization efforts 1) are organized in ways that leverage available
resources to maximize community benefits, and 2) reflect a digitization
strategy that is conscious of system-wide implications. Careful analysis of
proposed digitization programs, using the best data sources at hand, helps
decision-makers anticipate and shape the impact of these programs in ways
that contribute toward the realization of both of these objectives.” Web:
http://www.dlib.org
OAIster
Katerina Hagedorn, in Looking for Pearls
(Research Information, March/April 2005), reports on the Open Archives
Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting and associated OAIster service
at the University of Michigan, which provides access to over 4.8 million
metadata records from research institutions around the world. She outlines
procedures used and future plans for the service. Web: http://www.researchinformation.info/rimarapr05oaister.html).
Personal digital collections
Neil Beagrie, in Plenty of Room at the
Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections (D-Lib Magazine vol
11, no 6, June 2005), looks at personal digital collections of photos,
videos and blogs. He concludes: “The growing abundance of personal data and
collection…will present numerous challenges to individuals…how to physically
secure such material sometimes over decades, how to protect privacy, how to
organize and extract information and to use it effectively, and for material
intended to be shared, how to effectively present and control access by
different groups of users. [The] shift towards personal collections, and to
services aimed at supporting activity from the desktop, will also lead to
new forms of shared services, publishers and information banks, and will
reinforce informal social networks and mechanisms of communication…The
digital material in many of these personal collections is likely to be as
significant for future users of historic collections as their paper
equivalents are today, providing it survives for future access. Personal
digital collections should become a major area of interest for research
collections.” Web: http://www.dlib.org/.
Tools
The Arts and Humanities Data Service has
published a number of information papers on digitisation projects. Titles
include Planning and Managing Digital Resource Creation Projects,
The Digitisation Process, Metadata for Your Digital Resource,
Copyright and Other Rights Issues in Digitisation, and Why bother
with Digitisation? The latter concludes: “Digitising has many benefits,
not least the large number of users that can access and contribute to a
digital resource. But digitisation is not an end in itself, nor should users
be taken for granted. Evaluating the uses that a resource can support, and
understanding how those uses can be expanded is critical to the success of
any digitisation project. Decisions made early in the digitisation process
can both reduce and expand the ability of a resource to meet these expected
uses, so it makes sense to consider these uses at an early stage”. Web:
http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/information-papers/
Complexity
David Singer and Sara Moulton Reger, in
The Many Facets of Complexity (IBM Think Research, 2005), discuss
characteristics, problems and solutions relating to unthinking, chosen,
diffused and layered complexity within organisations. Web: http://www.research.ibm.com/thinkresearch/pages/2004/20041130_think.shtml
Higher education information environment
Andy Powell, in The JISC Resource
Discovery Environment: a Personal Reflection on the JISC Information
Environment and Related Activities May 2005,
looks at the way resource discovery technologies are deployed across the UK
higher and further education community. Topics discussed, with 26 associated
recommendations, include: service oriented architectures, the maturity of
the environment, manual versus automated approaches, the Semantic Web,
community-led approaches, peer-to-peer approaches, managing complex objects,
metasearching and search interfaces, portals and shared infrastructure. Web:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/resource-discovery-review/jisc-resource-discovery-landscape.pdf
Information abundance
Tom Storey, in The Long Tail and Libraries
(OCLC Newsletter no 268, 2005: 6-9), looks at Wired Magazine Chris
Anderson’s ‘long tail business model’ for the digital age and assesses the
role of libraries in this abundant digital future in which bottlenecks that
stand between supply and demand disappear and everything becomes available
to everyone. “Basically, the Long Tail says that big changes are in store—in
fact, already taking place—as a new digital media and entertainment economy
emerges. Digitization and e-delivery are radically changing economic
fundamentals and creating new markets for millions of niche items. No longer
are megahits, blockbusters and best-sellers designed for mass audiences, the
Holy Grail to success and riches. The digital environment, with its low
storage and distribution costs, offers a viable alternative: aggregating the
obscure and unpopular with the popular and widely celebrated use of an
automated recommendation system to link the two. The new economy is one
based on abundance, infinite availability and unlimited shelf space and is
driving Internet companies like Amazon and iTunes and NetFlix. They use
personalization features and software filters—the user recommendations that
say ‘users that like this item also like’—to help users move from the
popular to the obscure in the tail of abundance.” Web:
http://www.oclc.org/news/publications/newsletters/default.htm
Orphan works
The US Copyright Office has launched a major
examination of the "orphan works" problem -- the huge number of works that
are still under copyright but where the copyright owner cannot reasonably be
found, thus blocking use of the work. Associated documentation is available
at
http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/
Talent economy
Malcolm Gillies, in Rethinking Australian
Innovation: the Talent Economy (National Press Club 17 August 2005),
outlines the principles behind the ‘talent economy’, talks about why it is
supplanting the idea of an economy based on knowledge, and describe the
steps Australia can take to keep pace in a competitive world. Despite a
considerable investment by Government, Australia still sits in the middle of
the pack in the OECD list of innovative countries. Australia’s policies on
innovation have been set too cautiously. Its policies have innovative
products rather than innovative processes in mind. They still reflect the
mindset of technology transfer. We need to re-think the game plan. We have
become hung up on knowledge, when we should be concentrating our efforts on
building the long-term capabilities of our most talented people both through
education and through research. Web:
http://www.chass.org.au
Museums Association strategy
In the UK, the Museums Association’s
Collections for the Future considers collective opinion from a drawn-out
survey and presents the association’s strategy for positioning underused
museum collections to “reassert the place of their collections at the heart
of the public realm.” Museums should do more to expand the opportunities
open to people to engage with collections, provide better information about
their resources, and invest in digitisation programs. The sector needs
increased collaboration, more investment in training, development and
succession planning, more of a focus on developing the potential of
collections, better communication, better links with the higher education
sector. There is a shortfall in expertise, talent is wasted, and too many
energetic and committed people leave the sector. Museums need to pool their
resources by working across institutional boundaries. The idea of defining a
comprehensive ‘distributed national collection’, covering all disciplines,
is unrealistic. There is resistance among museums to an over-centralised
approach to collecting. A judicious approach is needed that leaves room for
personal vision, is discriminating and selective, and encourages museums to
work together when appropriate, without imposing a rigid centralised
approach. Action springing from this assessment revolves around the
catch-cries engagement, the dynamic collection, and strengthening the museum
sector. They encourage debate and research, working with the Art Fund and
other appropriate bodies, investigating ways of supporting museums in the
transferring of collections to more appropriate institutions, seeking ways
to work in partnership with the Local Government Association and higher
education bodies, workforce development, and exploring models of
collaboration, including investment in subject-based networks. Web:
http://www.museumsassociation.org/asset_arena/text/ns/policy_collections.pdf
Information black holes, digital tsunamis, data under the desk,
and fading memories
David Talbot, in The Fading Memory of the
State (Technology Review, July 2005), interviews Allen Weinstein, the
Archivist of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), about
NARA’s Electronic Records Archives (ERA) project, which attempts to deal
with the pending "tsunami" of digital records in government agencies.
Currently, NARA holds only a small quantity of electronic records. It has an
inadequate system for taking in more data. A tremendous backlog has built
up. Born digital material follows a convoluted electronic path. Data formats
are often incompatible. Electronic storage media has a limited lifespan.
Electronic records rot much faster than paper ones. There are questions
about the preservation of digital ‘marginalia’, digital tidbits and email.
Although more data will be generated in the next three years than in the
previous 1000 years, US Air Force historian, Eduard Mark, among others, has
commented on the disappearance of important historical information in the
digital age, including for example, information on the US 1989 invasion of
Panama. NARA has hired two contractors, Harris Corporation and Lockheed
Martin, to develop solutions drawing on initiatives elsewhere, such as
Australia’s open-source software XENA (for XML Electronic Normalising of
Archives), which attempts to convert records into a standardised format able
to read by future technologies, the Library of Congress’s US$100 million
digital preservation program, and MIT’s Dspace. The future calls for a new
kind of information professional - a data curator with an historian's eye, a
computer scientist's understanding of storage technologies, and a
librarian's fluency with metadata. Web:
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/issue/feature_memory.asp)
International archival gateways
In May 2005, a meeting on international
archival gateways, organised by the Research Libraries Group in the US and
National Archives in the UK, explored standards, tools, business models,
users, leadership, partners, funding models, discovery strategies, culture
and language issues and recommended that an RLG working group continue to
examine issues and begin work on a set of international interoperability
protocols. Web:
http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=373
NZ Electronic Recordkeeping Systems Standard
Archives New Zealand has released Electronic
Recordkeeping Systems Standard as a discretionary best practice standard in
New Zealand public offices and local authorities. The standard defines a set
of functional specifications for electronic recordkeeping systems based on
the European Union's Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic
Records ('MoReq') specification. Web:
http://www.archives.govt.nz/continuum/rkpublications.html#s5
Automated metadata generation
The Library of Congress’s Final Report for
the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications) Project, prepared by
Jane Greenberg and others, February 2005, evaluates current automatic
metadata generation functionalities supported by content creation software
and automatic metadata generation applications, reviews automatic metadata
generation functionalities supported by integrated library systems, and
surveys metadata experts to determine which aspects of metadata generation
are most amenable to automation. It concludes that there is a disconnection
between experimental research and application development and that metadata
generation applications could be vastly improved by integrating experimental
research findings. Although most people support automatic metadata
generation, they favour an approach that also facilitates manual
intervention. The report recommends that the Library of Congress: build an
automatic metadata generation application; foster and facilitate research on
automatic metadata generation; implement mechanisms for communicating and
negotiating with content creation software vendors. Web:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/lc_amega_final_report.pdf
Collection management software
OCLC has released the latest version of
CONTENTdm, its digital collection management software for libraries and
other cultural heritage institutions. CONTENTdm software offers a set of
tools for managing and delivering access to digital collections of
historical documents, photos, newspapers, audio and video on the Web.
Enhancements include fast multiple document entry, increased security for
items, and reporting improvements. Web:
http://www.contentdm.com/customers.
Digitising newspapers
A report and presentations from the OCLC
seminar Digitizing Historic Newspapers: A Practical Approach, July 2005,
are available at:
http://digitalcooperative.oclc.org/presentations/DigNewspapers2005/DigNewspapers2005.htm
Gateway standardisation
Brian Kelly, Amanda Closier, and Debra Hiom,
in Gateway Standardization: A Quality Assurance Framework for Metadata
(Library Trends vol 53 no 4 2005: 637-650), describe a quality assurance
framework and self-assessment toolkit to support the Joint Information
Systems Committee's digital library programs in the UK and its application
to metadata. Web:
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/lt.html
The invisible Web
Yanbo Ru and Ellis Horrowitz, in Indexing
the Invisible Web: a Survey (Online Information Review vol 29 no 3 2005;
p. 249-265), identify the challenges and problems underlying work in this
area. Existing technologies and tools for indexing the invisible web follow
one of two strategies: indexing the site interface or examining a portion of
the contents of an invisible site and indexing the results. Web:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/oir.htm
Library automation
Roland Dietz and Carl Grant, in The Dis-Integrating
World of Library Automation (Library Journal, 15 June 2005), say that
working together librarians and vendors can solve the problems that hamper
innovation. “To do so, library systems must no longer solely deal with the
internal flows of cataloging, circulation, acquisitions, serials, and OPACs
but rather must be compatible with other internal systems and…external
systems…For librarians to understand how they need to integrate into the
larger information landscape, they first must spend equal amounts of time
looking internally and externally. Seeking out discussions on the future at
library conferences can be frustrating. Most sessions report on the past.
The exhibit floor, where clues to the future can be found, is frequently all
too empty….Attendees return home filled with more ideas of how things are
being done, rather than how things will be done.” Areas requiring attention:
integration with other services, such as virtual learning, distance
education, or web searching, development of service models, e-commerce,
institutional repositories (instead of digital library systems or digital
asset management systems), and open source software. Web:
http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA606392.html
Personal resource portal tool
Edward Almasy, in Tools for Creating Your
Own Resource Portal: CWIS and the Scout Portal Toolkit (Library Trends,
vol 53, no 4, 2005: 620-636), examines the open source software packages,
Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT) and the Collection Workflow Integration System (CWIS),
which are inexpensive to maintain and operate and easy for nontechnical
staff to download, set up, and populate with metadata. Web:
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/lt.html
Search software
ISYS Search Software has released ISYS:web 7,
the company’s enterprise search solution for public Web sites, corporate
intranets and portals targeting small to medium organisations and
departments of large enterprises. Web:
http://www.isys-search.com
Subject Portals Project
Marieke Guy, in Lessons and Outcomes From
The Subject Portals Project (Vine vol 35, no ½ 2005: 58-63),
investigates the purpose of the Subject Portals Project and the viability of
using Open Source. It says that portal functionality is the key aspect of
presenting data to users. A supplementary approach is to create portable
functions or portlets that can be incorporated into other services. Web:
Vine:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/vine.htm
Thesauruses and authority control
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly vol. 37
no 3-4, 2003 on thesauruses includes the following articles: Distributed
Thesaurus Web Services by Eric H. Johnson (pp 121-153) and Tools of the
Trade: Vocabulary Management Software by Melissa A. Riesland (pp 155-176).
Volume 38 (2004) no. 3/4 on the theme, Authority Control in Organizing and
Accessing Information: Definition and International Experience, has the
following articles: Authority Control in the World of Metadata by José
Borbinha (pp 105-116), Creator Description: Encoded Archival Context by
Daniel V. Potto (pp 201-226), LEAF: Linking and Exploring Authority Files by
Jutta Weber (pp 227-236), NACO: A Cooperative Model for Building and
Maintaining a Shared Name Authority Database by John D. Byrum, Jr (pp
237-249) and Creating Up-To-Date Corporate Name Authority Records By Using
Official Corporate Home Web Pages by Qiang Jin (pp 281-290).
http://www.haworthpressinc.com
XOBIS
Dick R. Miller, in XOBIS - An Experimental
Schema for Unifying Bibliographic and Authority Records (Cataloging &
Classification Quarterly vol 39 nos3/4 2005, pp 285-303), discusses XOBIS,
an experimental XML schema which reorganises bibliographic and authority
data elements into a single, integrated structure and attempts to create a
middle path between the complexity of MARC and the oversimplification of the
Dublin Core. Web:
http://www.haworthpressinc.com
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