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Speculating on the future of the metadata standards landscape

Speculating on the future of the metadata standards landscape. Jenn Riley Head, Carolina Digital Library and Archives The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. RDA?. RDA. RDA?.

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Speculating on the future of the metadata standards landscape

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  1. Speculating on the future of the metadata standards landscape Jenn Riley Head, Carolina Digital Library and Archives The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  2. RDA? RDA RDA? Elings & Waibel, “Metadata for All” http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1628/1543

  3. RDA FRBR RDA This is important too. DCMI Singapore Frameworkhttp://dublincore.org/documents/singapore-framework/

  4. DCMI Resource Model (from the DCMI Abstract Model)http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/

  5. Do we need a new one of these? What if the atomistic, formal expression of data becomes widespread?

  6. And let’s be sure to avoid this…. http://xkcd.com/915/xkcdcomic by Randall Munroe

  7. Formality of expression Conceptual model Datamodel basis for Proximity to actual implementation basis for Element/property vocabularies Data dictionaries basis for Cataloging rules Controlled vocabularies Data validity rules data expressed in data expressed in data expressed in data expressed in Binding

  8. But, wait. That doesn’t explain how different communities use these, or how they build upon one another. And the boxes still aren’t mutually exclusive.

  9. Element/property vocabularies World Information specialists Element/property vocabularies World Libraries/archives/museums Element/property vocabularies Information specialists OR Element/property vocabularies Libraries/archives/museums

  10. A new framework will emerge. But we need to help articulate it.

  11. Thank you! jennriley@unc.edu Fractal image by Jonathan Zanderhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Center_Apophysis_Fractal_Flame.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0

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