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Granger, Stewart; Dekkers, Makx; Weibel, Stuart L.; Kirriemuir, John; Lensch, Hendrik P. A.; Goesele, Michael; Seidel, Hans-Peter; Birmingham, William; Pardo, Bryan; Meek, Colin; Shifrin, Jonah; Goodvin, Renee; Lippy, Brooke – D-Lib Magazine, 2002
One opinion piece and five articles in this issue discuss: digital preservation infrastructure; accomplishments and changes in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative in 2001 and plans for 2002; video gaming and how it relates to digital libraries and learning technologies; overview of a music retrieval system; and the online version of the…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Electronic Libraries, Information Retrieval, Information Systems
Buckland, Michael; Chen, Aitao; Chen, Hui-Min; Kim, Youngin; Lam, Byron; Larson, Ray; Norgard, Barbara; Purat, Jacek; Gey, Frederic – D-Lib Magazine, 1999
Reports on work at the University of California, Berkeley, on the design and development of English-language indices to metadata vocabularies. Discusses the significance of unfamiliar metadata and describes the Entry Vocabulary Module which helps searchers to be more effective and increases the return on the original investment in generating…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Classification, Indexes, Indexing
Roszkowski, Michael; Lukas, Christopher – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
Describes an approach for linking geographically distributed collections of metadata so that they are searchable as a single collection. Describes the infrastructure, discusses advantages of using linked collections of authoritative metadata as an alternative to using a keyword-indexing search engine for resource discovery, and examines other…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Information Networks, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
Shabajee, Paul; Bollen, Johan; Luce, Rick; Weig, Eric – D-Lib Magazine, 2002
Includes four articles that discuss multimedia educational database systems and the use of metadata, including repurposing; the evaluation of digital library use that analyzes the retrieval habits of users; the Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL) and digital collection project; and the collection of the Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for…
Descriptors: Databases, Electronic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval
Thiele, Harold – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
Reviews the literature of the Dublin Core Workshop Series which focuses on development of metadata elements that facilitate discovery of textual and nontextual resources in a networked environment. Topics addressed include background on Internet searching and the Dublin Core Workshops, characteristics of the literature, key documents, key…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Electronic Publishing, Information Retrieval, Internet
Weibel, Stuart; Hakala, Juha – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
Offers a brief history of the Dublin Core initiative, an international, interdisciplinary effort to define a core set of elements for resource discovery. Describes outcomes of Dublin Core Workshops 1-4. Discusses outcomes of the Helsinki Metadata Workshop, focusing on the "Finnish Finish" which will form the basis of the first formal…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Indexing
Oard, Douglas; Peters, Carol; Ruiz, Miguel; Frederking, Robert; Klavans, Judith; Sheridan, Paraic – D-Lib Magazine, 1999
Discusses a multidisciplinary workshop that addressed issues concerning internationally distributed information networks. Highlights include multilingual information access in media other than character-coded text; cross-language information retrieval and multilingual metadata; and evaluation of multilingual systems. (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Evaluation Methods, Global Approach, Information Networks