Friday, July 6, 2007

Indexing, Cataloguing, Metadata & Database Issues

Audio Visual Cataloguing Secrets Revealed! - The public library catalogue is a wonderful and mysterious place. It holds the key to the Library’s vast holdings and where to find them. However, there are times when the catalogue seems to speak its own secret language, and in this article we provide a few translations for terms you may encounter with Audio Visual entries.

Creating Digital Audio Resources: A Guide to Good Practice - Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) guidelines on creating documentation to describe the content and status of resources and their constituent parts.

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative - The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups, global conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.

Guidelines for Encoding Bibliographic Citation Information in Dublin Core Metadata - This document provides guidelines for capturing bibliographic citation information within a Dublin Core description. It focuses on bibliographic citations for journal articles, but it also considers other genre. It deals primarily with bibliographic citations for a resource within its own metadata, but some guidelines for describing references to other resources are also indicated. Some other issues that arise when describing a bibliographic resource using Dublin Core metadata are also discussed.

Library of Congress: MARC Standards - The MARC formats are standards for the representation and communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form.

Metadata Standards for Museum Cataloguing - Multimedia medadata standards at the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN).

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