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Scharf, David – Information Outlook, 2002
Discusses XML (extensible markup language), particularly as it relates to libraries. Topics include organizing information; cataloging; metadata; similarities to HTML; organizations dealing with XML; making XML useful; a history of XML; the semantic Web; related technologies; XML at the Library of Congress; and its role in improving the…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Information Management, Libraries, Metadata
Download full textKuntz, Patricia S. – 2001
The proliferation of Web pages and digitized material mounted on Internet servers has become unmanageable. Librarians and users are concerned that documents and information are being lost in cyberspace as a result of few bibliographic controls and common standards. Librarians in cooperation with software creators and Web page designers are…
Descriptors: African Studies, Information Management, Information Retrieval, Internet
Wason, Tom; Griffin, Steve – Educom Review, 1997
Users of the World Wide Web have recognized the need for better search strategies and mechanisms. This article discusses the Educom NLII Instructional Management System (IMS) Project specifications and Java-based software for metadata that will provide information about Web-based materials not currently obtainable with traditional search engines.…
Descriptors: Database Management Systems, Information Management, Metadata, Online Systems
Woods, Larry, Ed. – 1999
The 1999 American Society for Information Science (ASIS) conference explored current knowledge creation, acquisition, navigation, correlation, retrieval, management, and dissemination practicalities and potentialities, their implementation and impact, and the theories behind the developments. Speakers reviewed processes, technologies, and tools,…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Information Management, Information Retrieval
Perkins, John – 2001
Museums hold enormous amounts of information in collections management systems and publish academic and scholarly research in print journals, exhibition catalogs, virtual museum presentations, and community publications. Much of this rich content is unavailable to web search engines or otherwise gets lost in the vastness of the World Wide Web. The…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Information Dissemination, Information Management
Peer reviewedThornely, Jenny – Australian Library Journal, 1998
The goal of the State Library of Queensland's (Australia) Metadata Project is the deployment of metadata using the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set in State Library Web pages. This is expected to improve resource discovery by Internet users, through providing index information (metadata) in State Library Web pages which is then available to search…
Descriptors: Electronic Text, Foreign Countries, Information Management, Information Retrieval
Wills, Deborah – 1998
The nature of the World Wide Web poses considerable challenges for the scholar or student who wishes to identify and locate Web resources of use to research. In contrast to the Web, the traditional library can be seen as a well-defined and organized physical space. An awareness of the successes, challenges and on-going projects involving library…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Literacy, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy
