Metadata and Organizing Educational Resources on the Internet

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Adapt traditional library techniques to the task of indexing, cataloging, and metadata creation for Internet resources! The rapid shift toward digital resources in K-6, higher education, adult education, and other learning communities, has greatly increased the demand on the information professionals to manage this new technology. Metadata and Organizing Educational Resources on the Internet,... Read more

Adapt traditional library techniques to the task of indexing, cataloging, and metadata creation for Internet resources!

The rapid shift toward digital resources in K-6, higher education, adult education, and other learning communities, has greatly increased the demand on the information professionals to manage this new technology. Metadata and Organizing Educational Resources on the Internet, the first book of its kind, helps clarify the process of cataloging and indexing the vast quantities of data available in digital form, so that users can readily access the information they need.

This comprehensive volume documents the experiences of metadata creators (both catalogers and indexers), library administrators, and educators who are actively engaged in projects that organize Internet resources for educational purposes. Metadata and Organizing Educational Resources on the Internet shares the problems the authors encountered in the far-reaching project of creating metadata for a new class of resource, as well as the solutions and options they found.

Tackling the salient issues of cataloging and indexing, Metadata and Organizing Educational Resources on the Internet:

examines the status quo of cataloging Internet resources
explores the relationship between traditional cataloging practices and Internet cataloging
introduces a number of educationally focused metadata schemes, including ARIADNE, GEM, and IMS
examines theoretical and practice aspects of metadata in relation to today's evolving Internet-based educational terrain
discusses specific projects, including ALADIN, PEN-DOR, the Schomburg Research Library, and a catalog of Greek sculpture fragments for the Perseus Project
offers charts, figures, screen shots, and Web addresses for initiatives using metadata to facilitate access

This is an exciting time to be involved with information services. Metadata and Organizing Educational Resources on the Internet presents the ideas and experiences of the pioneering librarians who are mapping the intricacies of the World Wide Web. Catalogers, indexers, content creators, librarians, and educators will profit from the information in this fascinating volume.

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Acknowledgments
Metadata Questions in Evolving Internet-Based Educational Terrain
The School Library Media Center in the Digital Age: Issues in the Cataloging of Electronic Resources
ALADIN: An Example of Integrating Traditional and Electronic Services in the Digital Environment
Cataloging K-12 Math and Science Curriculum Resources on the Internet: A Non-Traditional Approach
Dewey Applications for the Simple Arrangement of a Link Library: The Case of Science Net
Straining the Standards: How Cataloging Web Sites for Curriculum Support Poses Fresh Problems for the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules
Democratizing Education at the Schomburg: Catalog Development and the Internet
GEM: Design and Implementation of a Metadata Project for Education
Metadata for a Digital Library of Educational Resources
Managing Digital Educational Resources with the ARIADNE Metadata System
Disiecta Membra: Construction and Reconstruction in a Digital Catalog of Greek Sculpture
The National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS) Project: Reinventing Undergraduate Engineering Education Through Remote Cataloging of Digital Resources
Providing Access to Course Material at Deakin University
Using the Online Catalog as a Publishing Source in an Academic Institution
Cataloging Economics Preprints: An Introduction to the RePEc Project
Metadata Issues, Document Architecture, and Best Educational Practices
Structured Metadata Spaces
Discovering and Using Educational Resources on the Internet: Global Progress or Random Acts of Progress?
Index
Reference Notes Included

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Jane Greenberg

Metadata and Organizing Educational Resources on the Internet

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