Metadata creation practices in digital repositories and collections: schemata, selection criteria, and interoperability.
This study explores the current state of metadata-creation practices across digital repositories and collections by using data collected from a nationwide survey of mostly cataloging and metadata professionals. Results show that MARC, AACR2, and LCSH are the most widely used metadata schema, content...
| Publicado en: | Information Technology & Libraries Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 104 - 117 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Library Association
Sep2010
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=105083260&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 105083260 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 07309295 ITL jtl: Information Technology & Libraries issn: 07309295 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2010 vid: 29 iid: 3 pid: 55 pub: American Library Association place: Chicago, Illinois artinfo: ui: 105083260 2010754322 10.6017/ital.v29i3.3136 105083260 ppf: 104 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Metadata creation practices in digital repositories and collections: schemata, selection criteria, and interoperability. aug: au: Park J Tosaka Y affil: Assistant Professor, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia. sug: subj: Cataloging Standards Electronic Publications Metadata Standards Access to Information Funding Source Human Libraries, Academic Listserv Surveys Vocabulary, Controlled ab: This study explores the current state of metadata-creation practices across digital repositories and collections by using data collected from a nationwide survey of mostly cataloging and metadata professionals. Results show that MARC, AACR2, and LCSH are the most widely used metadata schema, content standard, and subject-controlled vocabulary, respectively. Dublin Core (DC) is the second most widely used metadata schema, followed by EAD, MODS, VRA, and TEI. Qualified DC's wider use vis-à-vis Unqualified DC (40.6 percent versus 25.4 percent) is noteworthy. The leading criteria in selecting metadata and controlled-vocabulary schemata are collection-specific considerations, such as the types of resources, nature of the collection, and needs of primary users and communities. Existing technological infrastructure and staff expertise also are significant factors contributing to the current use of metadata schemata and controlled vocabularies for subject access across distributed digital repositories and collections. Metadata interoperability remains a major challenge. There is a lack of exposure of locally created metadata and metadata guidelines beyond the local environments. Homegrown locally added metadata elements may also hinder metadata interoperability across digital repositories and collections when there is a lack of sharable mechanisms for locally defined extensions and variants. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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