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Metadata: Soup to Nuts Using Metadata

Metadata: Soup to Nuts Using Metadata. Email m.napier@ukoln.ac.uk URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/. Marieke Napier UKOLN University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY. UKOLN is supported by:. Contents. A demonstration of metadata management in Cultivate Interactive

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Metadata: Soup to Nuts Using Metadata

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  1. Metadata: Soup to NutsUsing Metadata Email m.napier@ukoln.ac.uk URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Marieke Napier UKOLN University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY UKOLN is supported by:

  2. Contents • A demonstration of metadata management in Cultivate Interactive • Overview of how OAI and NOF may work together • Metadata tools out there • Other resources Metadata: from soup to nuts, London, 6 Feb 2002

  3. What is Cultivate Interactive? • Cultivate Interactive is a pan-European Web magazine launched in July 2000 • It is aimed at the European digital cultural heritage community • 5 issues have now been published • Issue 6 will be released in late February • Around 150 user sessions a day are received; some articles have now had over 3500 hits http://www.cultivate-int.org/ Metadata: from soup to nuts, London, 6 Feb 2002

  4. How is it Delivered? • The magazine method of delivery is intended to promote consistency, low maintenance and reuse. • Windows NT 4 Server • Site Server 3.0 • IIS 4.0 • Active server pages (ASP) • Server-side Includes (SSIs) • XHTML • Future database integration Metadata: from soup to nuts, London, 6 Feb 2002

  5. Storing the Metadata • Dublin Core metadata is recorded for each article in a default file. • Recently we have also imported this metadata into a database • ' Give the Author metadata in format Surname, initials • author = "Crane, G., Fuchs, B., Smith,A.C. and Wulfman, C.E." • ' Give the Description metadata (in single line) • description = "Gregory Crane, Brian Fuchs, Amy C. Smith and Clifford E. Wulfman discuss the symbiosis between content and technology in the Perseus Digital Library." Metadata: from soup to nuts, London, 6 Feb 2002

  6. Using the Metadata • This data can be used in a number of ways. • Resource discovery: • Advanced searching within the magazine • Getting harvested by Search engines • Using with Open Archives Initiative (OAI) or other metadata harvesting services e.g. CSC document server • Auditing purposes: • Reuse of information • Database • Similar articles Metadata: from soup to nuts, London, 6 Feb 2002

  7. Searching the Metadata • The data searched in different fields is based on the field's respective Dublin Core attribute e.g. The Abstract search is based on the DC.Description Dublin Core attribute. • Main Search screen • Full text searches • Search just the author, title or abstract fielda • Advanced search • Search by category, issue, article type or project category http://www.cultivate-int.org/cat-search/ Metadata: from soup to nuts, London, 6 Feb 2002

  8. OAI and NOF • All OAI (Open Archives Initiative) data providers supply metadata in a common format - unqualified Dublin Core • Harvested by the NOF portal - remember Pete’s slides • Possibility of harvesting clusters • It’s not rocket science • NOF Portal will drive traffic to your site • However…metadata shouldn’t be managed ONLY with the OAI portal in mind - we still need to create rich metadata Metadata: from soup to nuts, London, 6 Feb 2002

  9. Metadata Tools • For creating, editing, seeing and managing metadata: • Stand-alone metadata tools • Web-based - CGI, Java applets • Desktop - Java, Visual Basic • HTML or text editors • tedious, hard to do bulk-changes • Web site management tools • NetObjects Fusion, FrontPage • Home grown solutions based on SSIs Metadata: from soup to nuts, London, 6 Feb 2002

  10. Things to Bear in Mind… • Who will be maintaining your metadata? • Authors • Webmaster • Registry • The Library • Which pages should have embedded metadata? • All? • 'Home' pages? • Selected pages? • Just the university home page? Metadata: from soup to nuts, London, 6 Feb 2002

  11. Hands-on Session • Looking at metadata creation tools • Looking more at traditional metadata for resource discovery • Also metadata for management of resources • Lots of issues, for example preservation - include information on how the image is captured, rights, workflow etc. • Try and keep clear what we are doing to the metadata • Creating metadata • Managing metadata • Using/searching metadata Metadata: from soup to nuts, London, 6 Feb 2002

  12. Other Resources • http://uk.dublincore.org/ • http://www.w3.org/Metadata/ • http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/ • http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/ • Any questions? Metadata: from soup to nuts, London, 6 Feb 2002

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