LIS 7410 - Digital Libraries
Spring 2012 -- Section 01
Homework Assignment 2 (Professional Track) Alternative Option
Metadata Standards and Interoperability Study
Select a metadata standard or metadata technology to review. In your paper:
- discuss the significance of using the metadata standard to describe information resources of your interest,
- discuss the specific functions/roles the metadata support,
- address who are using the metadata, and
- whenever possible, provide some examples and describe your own hands-on experience with the metadata and/or its related
technology.
Then select a second metadata standard or technology, compare with (or contrast against) the one you have already studied.
The two standards or technologies need to be comparable to some extent (otherwise there would be nothing to compare). In your report,
discuss:
- the interoperability of the two metadata standards in detail. Provide examples whenever appropriate.
- what information is lost during crosswalking between the two standards (if you plan to address crosswalking), and whether the lost information is
crtitial to the description of the information resources.
Readings for the class session of "Metadata and Markup" are helpful. The typology of data standards (Table 1) in
Introduction to Metadata 3.0 helps
to understand the typology of standards and to do the comparison/contrast.
RDA Vocabularies:
Process, Outcome, Use also talks about the typology of metadata and cataloging standards.
Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge Report to the President helps to understand the importance of metadata research and use.
Understanding metadata introduces various metadata schemes and
interoperability issues.
Here are some metadata standards (and/or technologies) for your reference; you are highly encouraged to study metadata standards that
interest you the most, which may not be on this list.
- General Metadata Standards/Schema
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Link
Dublin Core Generator: Link
- MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema): Link
- MADS (Metadata Authority Description Schema): Link
- METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard): Link
Making of Americal II (MOAII): Link
- Culture and Visual Resources
- VRA Core Categories version 3.0: Link
- CDWA - Categories for the Description of Works of Art:
Link
- MOAC - Museum and Cultural Collections (standards): Link
- MIX - NISO Metadata for Images in XML Schema: Link
- Educational Resources
- GEM - Gateway to Educational Materials: Link
- IEEE Learning Object Metadata: Link
- Archives and Preservation
- EAD - ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION: Link
- PREMIS (Preservation Metadata): Link
- ADN Framework (ADEPT/DLISE/NASA): Link
- Others
- CSDGM - Content standard for digital geospatial metadata: Link
- FOAF - The Friend of a Friend:Link
- microformats: Link
- External digitization standards: Link (Note: NOT all digitization standards are metadata standards)
Students of previous semesters have studied:
- Dublin Core and MARC/MARC21
- Dublin Core and MODS
- MODS and METS
- EAD and MARC
- EAD and MOAII
- CSDGM and Marc21
- GEM and IEEE Learning Object Metadata
Your report might be at least 3 single-spaced pages (excluding illustrations and printouts of sample pages), but no more than
10 pages in total (including illustrations and bibliography). Please submit a Microsoft Word document (.rtf, .doc, or .docx,
but not .wpd), a PDF document, or an HTML document. Post your document on your course Website (which you have already created for
Assignment 1) by making a link from "Homework 2" to your document.
You do not need to email your URL to the instructor again.
The grading guidelines may not apply to this assignment DIRECTLY, but are still useful for reference.
Acknowledgement to Xia Lin.
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Yejun Wu