INLS 235

Day 8

2/25/2004

 

1.  One minute papers

Big point

Metadata (md) is crucial to DLs

There are many md schemes  (and levels of analysis/description)

md in XML is embedded in the info objects

defining md standards/schemes is quite different from getting people to use them [consider metatags in HTML]

md generation is huge challenge

 

Questions

Don’t md registries have authority and security problems?

How do content management systems help interoperation?

Is it more important to preserve document content or document artifact?

How can we expect hw and sw to interoperate when we (humans) can’t?

Who preserves old hardward/sw for future reading of old artifacts [NARA, Smithsonian, NSA, etc.]

How can a poem generate many pages of markup?

How does the transition to standards take place?

Where is the big mapping/table between XML, EAD, DC, MARC, AACR2, METS, SCORUM, OAI-PMH, etc.?

How can we help everyone add metadata?

 

2. Guest Lecture:  Scottish Music DL and HOTBED  http://www.hotbed.ac.uk)

 

3. DL presentations

Megan Winget Online Archive of California http://www.oac.cdlib.org/

Kristin Fiore Indiana Variations digital music libraries

Hugh Cayless  Suda Online http://www.stoa.org/sol

 

4. Social implications of DLs

 

5. One-minute paper

      What was the main point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?