Role of Metadata in Digital Resource Management

Annals of Library and Information Studies, 2002

Gives an overview of metadata and its importance in the present era of information explosion. The paper also discusses metadata standards and lists various metadata systems that have evolved.

This articles deals with the general concept of Metadata, some definitions, types, creation methods and tools for Metadata. Enumerates some of the important functions like Resource discovery, Organizing digital resources, Interoperability, Archiving and preservation. Discusses ultimate goals of different types of metadata. It also elaborates some standards regarding metadata. Encompasses role of metadata in the life cycle of information objects in the digital information system. It enumerates an overview outlining the basic elements of Dublin Core Metadata standard. Besides Dublin Core, other metadata standards are just mentioned to well acquainted by name.

Metadata for Digital Resources, 2008

2001

Abstract Universality, the property of the Web that makes it the largest data and information source in the world, is also the property behind the lack of a uniform organization scheme that would allow easy access to data and information. A semantic web, wherein different applications and Web sites can exchange information and hence exploit Web data and information to their full potential, requires the information about Web resources to be represented in a detailed and structured manner.

1998

Recordkeepers, records managers and archivists have always managed metadata for the recordkeeping purposes identified in the first seven dot points. However, they are only beginning to come to terms with the need in distributed networked environments to assure interoperability-so that records can be identifiable, searchable, retrievable, useable, available and restrictable through common user interfaces. It is this imperative that drives efforts to standardise recordkeeping metadata.

Library Philosophy and Practice, 2007

Metadata is a term that is increasingly being used by the library and information communities and others to refer to structured data that describes or otherwise documents other data in order to support one or more specified functions. These functions may include, for example, resource discovery and access, collection management and resource evaluation, rights management and digital preservation.

CALIBER-2001, INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad INDIA, 2001

As the Internet became an accepted source of electronic information, a variety of information communities have developed metadata to organize these resources to effectively serve their users. So metadata has taken on a more significant role of knowledge representation and data mining. In today's context, where the web contains the collection of massive heterogeneous objects, which need to be unified and linked in a single resource, we are witnessing both the growth of different metadata standards and the attempts to reconcile the common attributes in the existing overlapping standards. The goal is to access relevant information seamlessly, regardless of its type and location. This article addresses different aspects of metadata, the rationale behind it and gives a general picture of Dublin Core metadata elements.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001, 2001

Selection and metadata issues which surround the preservation of digital information are discussed, in particular, the assignment of "collection levels" to Web materials to ensure preservation, and some Preservation Metadata Element Sets (PMES) which have been identified as informed by the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. A metadata framework that can support a broad range of digital preservation activities-a Core PMES-is proposed, together with a general criteria based on "collection levels" to express preservation decision and responsibility for the resource at the time of selection.