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Building a Collectionand
Metadata DemystifyBioSciEd Network Orientation
February 2, 2006Washington, DC
Amy L. Chang
Director, Education Department
American Society for Microbiology
www.MicrobeLibrary.org [email protected]
Vision
“The proposed library will be an electronic journal of peer-reviewed educational
resources for the teaching community. It will be analogous to an electronic journal of
peer-reviewed scientific articles for the research community.”
From NSF proposal 1997
Underlying Principles
• Curriculum Guidelines• Peer-Review• Clearinghouse
Metadata Demystify
Identify Cataloguing Information
Resource is Not Worth Collecting IF It Can’t Be
FOUND
SHARED
The NEED for Cataloguing Information
• Authors - Name and Describe
• Librarians - Organize
• Users - Browse and Find
BEN Cataloguing Requirements
7 Groupings– General
– Life Cycle
– Technical
– Educational
– Rights
– Classification
– Metadata
BEN Cataloguing
• General - title, catalogue entry, language and description
• Life cycle – status, contributor, publication date
• Technical – file format and location
• Education – resource type, user type and educational level
BEN Cataloguing
• Rights – copyright and access fees
• Classification – life science disciplines, content or curriculum standards, and pedagogical use
• Meta-metadata – alliteration of metadata – author and publication date
Table 1. Learning Resource Type Vocabulary
Grouping Resource Type Name
Auditorium - animation illustration Multimedia audio map
video photograph diagram image graph/ chart simulation table application 35 mm slide discussion group/ listserv digital presentation (PowerPoint) webcast
Reading Room meeting presentation report proceedings abstract book memo book chapter newsletter journal non-journal article journal article/ issue pamphlet/ brochure thesis/ dissertation
Reference Room bibliography discussion group/ listserv archive index manual dataset scientific standards and guidelines dictionary/ glossary review thesaurus
Classroom - educational standards assignment/ activity (non-laboratory) pedagogical tools teaching strategies & guidelines assessment: tool
course syllabus assessment: exam with answer key lesson plan assessment: exam without answer key lecture/ lecture outline assessment: other laboratory exercise fieldtrip guide laboratory manual
Table 1. Discipline Taxonomy
1. agriculture & aquaculture2. anatomy3. anthropology & archaeology4. behavioral science5. biochemistry6. bioethics7. bioinformatics, genomics & proteomics8. biophysics9. biostatistics10. biotechnology11. botany & plant science12. cardiology13. cell biology14. conservation biology15. cryobiology16. developmental biology17. ecology18. education19. endocrinology20. entomology21. environmental sciences22. epidemiology23. evolutionary biology24. exercise & kinesiology25. exobiology26. forestry27. gastroenterology28. genetics & heredity29. geography30. histology31. human biology
32. hydrology & water resources33. immunology34. invertebrate biology35. marine biology36. microbiology37. molecular biology38. mycology39. natural history40. nephrology41. neurobiology42. nutrition & food sciences43. paleontology44. parasitology45. pathology46. pharmacology47. phylogeny48. physiology49. population biology50. psychology51. reproductive biology52. respiratory biology53. sociobiology54. soil biology55. systematics56. taxonomy & classification57. theoretical biology58. toxicology59. vertebrate biology60. virology61. zoology
Relationship of Cataloguing Information and Resource
Catalogue Info Catalogue Info Catalogue Info
HARVEST the Catalogue Info
ASM Server
ML ResourceML Catalogue Info AAAS Server
ML Catalogue Info
CatalogueInfo
CatalogueInfo
CatalogueInfo
Issues
Why Not?
• Don’t know what to describe
• Don’t know how to describe
• Cost too much
Consider…
• BEN Specifications• Professional Society
Uniqueness• Authors and
Reviewers
Two Types of Cataloguing Data
ContextualRequires judgment
(unique)• Unique information
– Title, author, description, audience
• Default information– Language, rights, fees,
publication date
InherentExtracted from digital
resource itself• File type
• File size
Acknowledgements
• Gloria Delisle – Distance Education (95-01)• Kristine Snow – Distance Education (01-03)• Erica Suchman – Technology Enhanced Education
(formerly Distance Education) (03-06)• Frederic Pfaender – Education Board (91-97)• Clifford Houston – Education Board (97-06)• Kelly Gull and Jean Gondwe (current staff)
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