Metadata Links

METADATA AND MUSIC
Links relevant to the programs at the MLA Annual Meeting in Louisville,
February 2000

Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information, edited by Murtha Baca
Full text of a monograph published by the Getty Information Institute. Excellent introduction to concepts; good glossary

http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/intrometadata/

Managing Electronic Collections by Elaine Day, James Madison University
An introductory paper inspired by experiences at an OCLC Institute Seminar on Knowledge Access Management

http://library.jmu.edu/libliaison/dayel/e-collect.htm

Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM, formerly FGDC)

http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/contstan.html

Dublin Core
Everything you ever wanted to know about Dublin Core.

http://purl.oclc.org/dc/

Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
The Official site

http://www.loc.gov/ead/

EAD structure example

http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/tglib/tlover.html

Issues in Crosswalking, Content Metadata Standards / by Margaret St. Pierre and William P. LaPlant, Jr.

http://www.niso.org/crsswalk.html

MARC and EAD examples
a handout prepared by Stephen Davison (UCLA) for the MARC Formats Subcommittee Meeting at MLA-Louisville, February 2000

http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~sdavison/marc/

Metadata and Resource Description
Information about RDF from W3C

http://www.w3.org/Metadata/
http://www.w3.org/RDF/

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
The Official site

http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/

TEI header example

http://www.mun.ca/library/cat/catnet/metadata.htm

VRA Core Categories

http://www.oberlin.edu/~art/vra/wc1.html

OCLC CORC Home Page
Everything you’d ever want to know about CORC

http://www.oclc.org/oclc/corc/index.htm

Catalogers Study Metadata
ALCTS Task Force on Meta Access
Information about this Task Force to Define Bibliographic Access in the Electronic Environment, including its Final Report

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/alcts/

SUBJECT DATA IN THE METADATA RECORD: RECOMMENDATIONS AND RATIONALE.
A Report from the ALCTS/CCS/SAC/Subcommittee on Metadata and Subject Analysis, July
1999

http://www.govst.edu/users/gddcasey/sac/MetadataReport.html

CC:DA Task Force on Metadata; Summary Report June 1999
Results of the work of the Task Force on its five charges

http://www.ala.org/alcts/organization/ccs/ccda/tf-meta3.html

Canadian Music Centre

http://www.musiccentre.ca/

National Gallery of the Spoken Word

http://www.ngsw.org/

OCLC's CORC system

http://www.oclc.org/oclc/corc/

Telematics for Libraries (Europe)

http://www.echo.lu/libraries/en/music.html

Variations Project at Indiana University

http://www.music.indiana.edu/variations/

Crosswalks

http://www.niso.org/crsswalk.html

Crosswalks (more information on)

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/interoperability/

Crosswalks (LC's crosswalk between MARC and DC)

http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/dccross.html

Current Cites: Bibliography
Created on demand for the keyword “Metadata”

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/bibondemand.cgi - then search on "metadata"

Dublic Core Library Interest Group Mailing List

http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-libraries/

Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records (FRBR)

http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf (requires presence of Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Interoperability of Data in E-commerce systems (Four societies representing creators and/or publishers in different sectors)

http://www.indecs.org/

Journal of Internet Cataloging

http://www.haworthpressinc.com:8081/jic/

Library Issues: Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata
Extensive hotlinked bibliography of potentially relevant articles

http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/lbcat.htm

Metadata Resources for Digital Libraries
A set of links from IFLANet

http://www.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm

Music markup languages

http://is.up.ac.za/mml/scope.htm

OCLC Institute

http://www.oclc.org/institute/