PBCore

This glossary has been extremly useful for me so far. I thought I would pass it on.

http://www.pbcore.org/PBCore/Glossary.html

Readings for Monday

Please have a look at the Shreeves' article on OAI and the Berners-Lee article on the semantic web for Monday.

I am also including links to other resources to supplement your reading, should you be interested in more.

A good weekend to all ...

Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Metadata Harvesting Project
http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/index.htm
This takes you to the homepage of the OAI. The link to presentations and papers in particular will take you to a wealth of resources about the OAI: http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu/presentations.htm.

For class on Monday, please be sure to look at the 2004 Shreeves et al. article:
Experiences of educators using a portal of aggregated metadata. Journal of Digital Information 5(3). Article No. 290, 2004-09-09.
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Shreeves/


OAI for Beginners - the Open Archives Forum online tutorial
http://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/
This tutorial is an introduction to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and is highly recommended.

The Semantic Web: A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities By Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila (May 2001) in Scientific American magazine.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21
This is the classic article by Berners-Lee and others, provides a very good starting place in learning about the semantic web. Please read for class on Monday.

The W3C Semantic Web Activity page
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Provides links to specifications (RDF and OWL), Publications/Articles/Interviews (including a 15 minute video with Berners-Lee), Upcoming Presentations, and Groups. This is an excellent resource for keeping current with semantic web activities. Please review.

semantic web: a question

Does the semantic web--which I feebly understand as language that is understandable to humans as well as to machines--fit into a discussion about metadata?

I feel like the reason there aren't so many papers about metadata anymore is that people have made the leap to new concepts, or new faddish terminology, but I have no idea.

Metadata Articles

Title: Web metadata: a matter of semantics Source: IEEE internet computing [1089-7801] Lassila yr:1998 vol:2 iss:4 pg:30
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel4/4236/15320/00707688.pdf?isnumber=15320&prod=JNL&arnumber=707688&arSt=30&ared=37&arAuthor=Lassila%2C+O.
A PDF of an article describing how researchers are approaching the construction of web metadata standards, particularly the W3C's RDF guidelines and how it compares to XML.

Title: Metadata Principles and Practicalities Source: D-Lib magazine [1082-9873] Duval yr:2002 vol:8 iss:4 pg:1082
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/weibel/04weibel.html
This article gives a fabulous overview of how metadata is constructed and how it is used in digital libraries.

ADVANCED DATABASES AND METADATA
ERCIM News No.35 - October 1998
Metadata: An Overview and some Issues
by Keith G Jeffery
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw35/intro.html
This presents a good picture of how metadata was looked at during theclose of the 20th century and what it was looking to accomplish.

Metadata Overview and the Semantic Web
P. Wittenburg, Daan Broeder
http://www.ling.lu.se/projects/echo/contributors/pdf/metadata_overview.pdf
This is a PDF of an article describing the main components of metadataand how it is being applied to the worldwide web.

Metadata: The Foundation of Resource Description
Annual review of OCLC research 1995
Stuart L. Weibel
http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObjectMain.jsp?fileid=0000002651:000000058754&reqid=76330
This article describes Dublin Core standards for metadata and gives anexample of a Dublin Core metadata record of a Maya Angelou poem.

Social Tagging

Please post all your links and articles re: social tagging in the comments to this post. If you've already posted something about social tagging, please delete your post and repost the text and links in the comments here. Let's keep all our links in one place. :)

for audiophiles

Several of you are interested in audio files, this may be of interest.

Here is an article in NYTimes (may require free registration) that talks about compression and source coding for audio files and how it impacts audiophiles ;-). There are samples of Norah Jones at differentr bit rates.

Users & Metadata Articles (Post Here)