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Metadata for digital collections

by Steven J. Miller

Reference -- Metadata interoperability, shareability, and quality -- Interoperability -- Short- and long-term metadata viability -- Metadata sharing, harvesting, and aggregating -- OAI metadata harvesting -- Metadata mapping and crosswalks -- Metadata conversion and processing -- Example of metadata harvesting, processing, and aggregating -- Good quality and shareable metadata -- Assessing metadata quality -- Five ways to improve your metadata quality and interoperability -- Summary -- References -- Designing and documenting a metadata scheme -- Metadata scheme design and documentation -- Introduction -- Analyze context, content, and users and determine functional requirements -- Select and develop an element set -- General / Cross-collection metadata scheme design -- Collection-specific metadata scheme design -- Factors in choice of metadata element set -- Establish element and database specifications -- Establish controlled vocabularies and encoding schemes --^ Develop content guidelines -- Document the scheme -- Metadata design examples -- General application profile examples -- Collaborative digitization program Dublin Core metadata documentation -- OhioLINK Dublin Core metadata documentation -- Indiana memory Dublin Core metadata documentation -- DLF/Aquifer MODS metadata documentation -- Collection-specific application profile examples -- University of Washington's architecture collection metadata documentation -- University of Washington's musical instruments collection metadata documentation -- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's transportation collection metadata documentation -- CONTENTdm examples -- Summary -- References -- Metadata, linked data, and the Semantic Web -- What are linked data and the semantic web and why care about them? -- Linked open data and the resource description framework -- Statements, properties, values, and RDF triples -- URIs: uniform resource identifiers -- Literals, strings, and things --^ The power of linking and querying in the linked data cloud -- RDF/XML -- Linked data and digital collections -- Dublin Core : from a core metadata element set for the web to a core vocabulary for linked data -- The DCMI abstract model (DCAM) -- Dublin Core application profiles -- Metadata registries -- What does all of this have to do with me? -- Summary -- References.

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