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Metadata: Soup to Nuts Using Metadata Marieke Napier UKOLN University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY UKOLN is supported by: Email [email protected] URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/

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Metadata: Soup to Nuts Using Metadata. Email [email protected] URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/. Marieke Napier UKOLN University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY. UKOLN is supported by:. Contents. A demonstration of metadata management in Cultivate Interactive - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Metadata: Soup to NutsUsing Metadata

Marieke Napier

UKOLN

University of Bath

Bath, BA2 7AY

UKOLN is supported by:

[email protected]://www.ukoln.ac.uk/

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Contents

• A demonstration of metadata management in Cultivate Interactive

• Overview of how OAI and NOF may work together

• Metadata tools out there• Other resources

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What is Cultivate Interactive?

• Cultivate Interactive is a pan-European Web magazine launched in July 2000

• It is aimed at the European digital cultural heritage community

• 5 issues have now been published

• Issue 6 will be released in late February

• Around 150 user sessions a day are received; some articles have now had over 3500 hitshttp://www.cultivate-int.org/http://www.cultivate-int.org/

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How is it Delivered?

The magazine method of delivery is intended to promote consistency, low maintenance and reuse.

• Windows NT 4 Server

• Site Server 3.0• IIS 4.0 • Active server pages (ASP)• Server-side Includes (SSIs) • XHTML• Future database integration

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Storing the MetadataDublin Core metadata is recorded for each article in a default file.

Recently we have also imported this metadata into a database

' Give the Author metadata in format Surname, initialsauthor = "Crane, G., Fuchs, B., Smith,A.C. and Wulfman, C.E."

' Give the Description metadata (in single line)description = "Gregory Crane, Brian Fuchs, Amy C. Smith and Clifford E. Wulfman discuss the symbiosis between content and technology in the Perseus Digital Library."

' Give the Author metadata in format Surname, initialsauthor = "Crane, G., Fuchs, B., Smith,A.C. and Wulfman, C.E."

' Give the Description metadata (in single line)description = "Gregory Crane, Brian Fuchs, Amy C. Smith and Clifford E. Wulfman discuss the symbiosis between content and technology in the Perseus Digital Library."

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Using the Metadata

This data can be used in a number of ways.

Resource discovery:• Advanced searching within the magazine• Getting harvested by Search engines • Using with Open Archives Initiative (OAI) or

other metadata harvesting services e.g. CSC document server

Auditing purposes:• Reuse of information• Database• Similar articles

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Searching the Metadata

http://www.cultivate-int.org/cat-search/http://www.cultivate-int.org/cat-search/

The data searched in different fields is based on the field's respective Dublin Core attribute e.g. The Abstract search is based on the DC.Description Dublin Core attribute.

• Main Search screen– Full text searches– Search just the author,

title or abstract fielda

• Advanced search– Search by category,

issue, article type or project category

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OAI and NOF• All OAI (Open Archives Initiative) data providers

supply metadata in a common format - unqualified Dublin Core

• Harvested by the NOF portal - remember Pete’s slides

• Possibility of harvesting clusters• It’s not rocket science• NOF Portal will drive traffic to your site

• However…metadata shouldn’t be managed ONLY with the OAI portal in mind - we still need to create rich metadata

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Metadata Tools

For creating, editing, seeing and managing metadata:

• Stand-alone metadata tools– Web-based - CGI, Java applets– Desktop - Java, Visual Basic

• HTML or text editors– tedious, hard to do bulk-changes

• Web site management tools– NetObjects Fusion, FrontPage

• Home grown solutions based on SSIs

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Things to Bear in Mind…

• Who will be maintaining your metadata?– Authors– Webmaster– Registry– The Library

• Which pages should have embedded metadata?

– All?– 'Home' pages?– Selected pages?– Just the university home page?

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Hands-on Session

• Looking at metadata creation tools• Looking more at traditional metadata for

resource discovery• Also metadata for management of resources

– Lots of issues, for example preservation - include information on how the image is captured, rights, workflow etc.

• Try and keep clear what we are doing to the metadata

– Creating metadata– Managing metadata– Using/searching metadata

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Other Resources• http://uk.dublincore.org/• http://www.w3.org/Metadata/• http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/• http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/

Any questions?