Contents: Introduction Setting the Stage Metadata and the Web Crosswalks, Metadata Harvesting, Federated Searching, Metasearching, Using Metadata to Connect Users and Information Rights Metadata Made Simple Practical Principles for Metadata Creation and Maintenance Glossary Selected Bibliography Contributors. Een introductie tot het fenomeen ‘metadata’ met informatie over de algemene concepten en over alle issues die van belang zijn bij het opbouwen …
PREMIS implementations at the British Library & PREMIS and the Planets project
As part of the Planets project, the British Library presented various reports on their own digital preservation approaches and technology. Angela Dappert (British Library) presented the PREMIS implementations at the British Library and the use of PREMIS in the Planets project in this presentation, delivered to the Foundation Rinascimento Digitale at the Round Table, ‘PREMIS – Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies’ …
Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects (web edition)
These extensive guidelines cover the entire spectrum of issues involved in migrating analogue audio carriers to digital files and managing those files in an OAIS compliant repository. It recommends formats, metadata standards, signal extraction techniques, and includes a chapter on how a small scale digital repository meeting the requirements of an OAIS might be established and managed. Audio carriers addressed …
The PrestoSpace Data Model
Een kort overzicht (2 pagina’s) van het metadatamodel, ontwikkeld in het Europese audiovisuele conserveringsproject PRESTOSPACE. Het model is gebaseerd op MPEG-7 en P/Meta en bevat extra extensies die binnen PS werden gedefinieerd. Het document verwijst naar de complete beschrijving van het model. Een helder beknopte uitleg van het PRESTOSPACE datamodel.
Embedding metadata in digital audio files
This “Guideline for Federal Agency Use of Broadcast Wave Files” presents a minimal set of embedded metadata for historical and cultural heritage digital audio reformate. It defines levels of metadata to be embedded in digitial audio files. The context for the guideline is described in the consultant’s assessment report . Information concerning the constraints imposed by wave existing metadata …
Putting Hybrid Cultural Data on the Semantic Web
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Converting Structured Data to RDF 3. Adding Text Relations – txt2rdf 4. Query Experiments 5. Conclusions References This paper explains how to augment structured data with “facts” automatically extracted from free text. This is done via a pipeline, txt2rdf, which takes in plain text at one end and pumps out RDF triples at the other. These …