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Metadata schema in the cultural heritage sector - 0 views

  • The sheer number of metadata standards in the cultural heritage sector is overwhelming, and their inter-relationships further complicate the situation. This visual map of the metadata landscape is intended to assist planners with the selection and implementation of metadata standards.
  • 05 standards listed here is evaluated on its strength of application to defined categories in each of four axes: community, domain, function, and purpose.
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    Metadata schema in the cultural heritage sector Riley, J. (2010). Seeing Standards: a visualisation of the metadata universe. Retrieved January 13, 2011, from http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/
Joanne S

Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums - 0 views

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    Smith-Yoshimura, K., & Shein, C. (2011). User contributions sought by LAMs. Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums Part 1: Site Reviews (pp. 13-36). Dublin  Ohio: OCLC. Retrieved from http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/2011-02r.htm Skim-read this to ensure that you understand the definitions of the seven different ways that libraries, archives and museums are using social metadata. Read more of this report if you are interested:
Joanne S

Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata - 0 views

  • he overall costs for users of the system in terms of time and effort are far lower than systems that rely on complex hierarchal classification and categorization schemes. In addition to this structural difference, the context of the use in these systems is not just one of personal organization, but of communication and sharing. The near instant feedback in these systems leads to a communicative nature of tag use.
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    Mathes, A. (2004). Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata.
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Glossary of Metadata Standards - 0 views

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    Content: Jenn Riley
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Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2009: Paper: Gow, V. et al., Making ... - 0 views

  • New Zealand content difficult to discover, share and use
  • DigitalNZ is testing ways to create digital content, collect and share existing digital content, and build smart, freely available search and discovery tools.
  • Memory Maker blurs the line between consuming and producing content. What’s sometimes called ‘remix culture’ […]. Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for young people to access and represent the stories of their culture by taking sound and images and recombining them to say something new, something relevant to them. (Sarah Jones, Lunch Box: Software & digital media for learning, November 2008) http://lunchbox.org.nz/2008/11/get-coming-home-on-your-schools-website-wiki-or-blog/)
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  • The Memory Maker provides a taste of what is possible when collecting institutions modernise their practices for keeping and managing copyright information, using Creative Commons licenses or ‘no known copyright’ statements.
  • Learning about ‘hyperlinks’ today, these young New Zealanders will be the developers and creators of tomorrow.
  • The full set of contributions is accessible through a Coming Home search tool, occasionally on a google-like hosted search page (Figure 5), but more often through a search widget embedded on many New Zealand Web sites (Figure 6).
  • Digital New Zealand is developing and testing solutions that showcase what’s possible when we really focus on improving access to and discovery of New Zealand content.
  • Technically, the Digital New Zealand system is in three parts: a backend, a metadata store, and a front end.
  • The coolest thing to be done with your data will be thought of by someone else
  • “an API is basically a way to give developers permission to hack into your database”.
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    Gow, V., Brown, L., Johnston, C., Neale, A., Paynter, G., & Rigby, F. (2009). Making New Zealand Content Easier to Find, Share and Use. In Museums and the Web 2009. Presented at the Museums and the Web 2009, Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics, Retrieved from http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/gow/gow.html
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