metadata: soup to nuts using metadata
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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 PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Metadata: Soup to NutsUsing Metadata
Marieke Napier
UKOLN
University of Bath
Bath, BA2 7AY
UKOLN is supported by:
[email protected]://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
Metadata: from soup to nuts, London, 6 Feb 2002
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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?