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Summary

These papers, presented at ALCTS' July 2000 Preconference on Metadata for Web Resources by a virtual who's who of the digital world, provide a timely overview of the challenges and difficulties of bringing order to a most unruly medium. Topics range from carefully considered viewpoints to possible standards to actual how-to's.

Table of Contents

Preface: Meting Out Datap. v
Acknowledgmentsp. vii
Introductionp. 1
Metadata and Libraries: What's It All About?p. 3
Cataloging the Web: AACR and Marc 21p. 13
AACR2 Complexities, Necessary and Otherwise: The Delsey Report, the Cardinal Principle, and (ER) Harmonizationp. 15
O, Brave Old World: Using AACR to Catalog Web Resourcesp. 21
Struggling toward Retrieval: Can Alternatives to Standard Operating Procedures Help?p. 27
AACR2 and Serialityp. 31
ISSN: Link and Cross-Link for Data and Metadatap. 35
MARC 21 as a Metadata Standard: A Practical and Strategic Look at Current Practices and Future Opportunitiesp. 41
Cataloging the Web: Other Approaches, Other Standardsp. 45
Visionary or Lunatic: One CORC Participant's Psychiatric Evaluationp. 47
Working toward a Standard TEI Header for Librariesp. 53
Libraries and the Future of the Semantic Web: RDF, XML, and Alphabet Soupp. 57
Archival Finding Aids as Metadata: Encoded Archival Descriptionp. 65
ISO Standards Development for Metadatap. 71
Tools for Cataloging the Webp. 79
MARCit Magic: Abracadabra! From a Web Site to a MARC Recordp. 81
Anticipating the Deluge: The INFOMINE Project and Its Approach to Metadatap. 87
Digital Libraries: Practical Applications of the Standardsp. 101
Interpretive Encoding of Electronic Texts Using TEI Litep. 103
Developing the Use of Metadata at the National Library of Medicine: From Decision-Making to Implementationp. 109
Integrating Bio-Collection Databases: Metadata in Natural History Museumsp. 113
The Colorado Digitization Project: An Overviewp. 119
The Instructional Management System (IMS) Standard: Solutions for Interactive Instructional Software and Dynamic Learningp. 123
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Metadata for Art Objects and Their Visual Surrogatesp. 131
Navigating LC's Cartographic Treasuresp. 139
VARIATIONS: Creating a Digital Music Library at Indiana Universityp. 149
DDI, the Data Documentation Initiative: An Introduction to the Standard and Its Role in Social Science Data Accessp. 155
Dublin Core for Digital Video Clipsp. 169
Conclusion: Where Are We? Where Are We Going?p. 177
Metadata: Hype and Gloryp. 179
Future Developments in Metadata and Their Role in Access to Networked Informationp. 183
Indexp. 189
About the Editorsp. 193
About the Contributorsp. 195
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