dc-dot
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A presentation to the House of Commons Library, April 2003TRANSCRIPT
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DC-dot
Andy [email protected]
UKOLN, University of Bath
House of Commons Library
April 2003
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DC-dot introduction
• demonstrator application• allow people to create simple
descriptions• show potential for extracting metadata
from the resource• show what DC looks like in practice• not really a production tool as such• workflow issues with Web-based tools,
integration with editors, etc.
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DC-dot demo
• http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/• (canned demo)
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Your problem…
• build ‘discovery’ service• primarily textual documents• multiple formats (HTML, MS-Office, PDF,
…)• full-text index vs. metadata-based
approach• consider discovery-strategies that aren’t
well supported by full-text approach– subject browse
– author search
– resource-type search
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Your problem…
• focus on functional requirements• what do you want people to be able to
do
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Issues
• metadata schema– simple DC, qualified DC, e-GMS, …
• cataloguing guidelines– format of author names, etc.
• workflow issues– who creates metadata– using what tools– who checks/validates/enhances metadata
• terminology (controlled vocabularies)– dc:subject, dc:type
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Issues
• encoding issues– embedding in HTML?– XML linked from HTML?– RDF/XML linked from HTML?– embedded into other formats (MS-Office,
PDF, etc.)
• available tools– editor support for metadata– search engine support for metadata
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Questions…
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