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Sutton, Stuart A.; Oh, Sam G. – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1997
Describes the GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials) project being developed to provide enhanced access to lesson plans and other Internet-based educational materials through metadata. Highlights include controlled vocabularies; NIDR (networked information discovery and retrieval); the Dublin Core element set; syntax; prototype interfaces; and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Interfaces, Information Retrieval, Instructional Materials
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Desai, Bipin C.; Shinghal, Raijan; Shayan, Nader R.; Zhou, Youquan – Library Trends, 1999
Describes a system called CINDI (Concordia INdexing and DIscovery System) for cataloging and searching documents in a distributed virtual library. The document author registers metadata in the form of a semantic header that contains information on syntactic and semantic content, and an expert system fills the semantic header according to accepted…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Bibliographic Databases, Cataloging, Electronic Libraries
Sutton, Stuart A.; Lankes, R. David; Small, Ruth V.; Eisenberg, Michael B. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1998
Describes the Gateway to Educational Materials Project (GEM) at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology at Syracuse University. Explicates the GEM metadata element set and how GEM metadata is created. Discusses the syntactic binding of GEM metadata and the mechanisms for its distribution. Concludes with a brief discussion of existing…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Interfaces, Educational Resources, Educational Technology