LIS 7410 - Digital Libraries
Spring 2011 -- Section 01
Homework Assignment 2 (Professional Track) Alternative Option
Metadata Standards and Interoperability Review
Select a metadata standard or metadata technology to review. In your paper, discuss the significance of using the metadata
standard to describe information resources, the specific functions/roles the metadata support, who are using the metadata,
and whenever possible, provide some examples and describe your own hands-on experience with the metadata and/or its related
technology. Then select a second metadata standard or technology, compare with (or contrast against) the one you have already
studied, discuss the interoperability of the two metadata standards in detail.
Readings for Session 8 (Metadata and Markup) are helpful. The typology of data standards (Table 1) in
Introduction to Metadata 3.0 helps
to understand the typology of standards and to do the comparison/contrast.
Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge. Report to the President. helps to understand the importance of metadata
research and use.
Here are some metadata standards (and/or technologies) for your reference; you are highly encouraged to study metadata standards that
interest you the most, which may not be on this list.
- General Metadata Standards/Schema
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Link
Dublin Core Generator: Link
- MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema): Link
- MADS (Metadata Authority Description Schema): Link
- METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard): Link
- Culture and Visual Resources
- VRA Core Categories version 3.0: Link
- CDWA - Categories for the Description of Works of Art:
Link
- MOAC - Museum and Cultural Collections (standards): Link
- MIX - NISO Metadata for Images in XML Schema: Link
- Educational Resources
- GEM - Gateway to Educational Materials: Link
- IEEE Learning Object Metadata: Link
- Archives and Preservation
- EAD - ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION: Link
- PREMIS (Preservation Metadata): Link
- ADN Framework (ADEPT/DLISE/NASA): Link
- Others
- CSDGM - Content standard for digital geospatial metadata: Link
- FOAF - The Friend of a Friend:Link
- microformats: Link
Students of previous semesters have studied:
- Dublin Core and MARC
- MODS and METS
Your report might be at least 3 single-spaced pages (excluding illustrations and printouts of sample pages), but no more than
10 pages in total (including illustrations and bibliography). Please submit a Microsoft Word document (.rtf, .doc, or .docx,
but not .wpd), a PDF document, or an HTML document. Post your document on your course Website (which you have already created for
Assignment 1) by making a link from "Homework 2" to your document.
You do not need to email your URL to the instructor again.
The grading guidelines may not apply to this assignment DIRECTLY, but are still useful for reference.
Acknowledgement to Xia Lin.
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Yejun Wu