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Tag Archives: Dublin Core

A Report on Namespaces Used by OAI-PMH Repositories

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Peter Murray
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I had a need for a survey of the metadata namespaces used by OAI-PMH repositories, so I wrote up a quick shell script and XSLT style sheet to parse through the list of Registered Data Providers at the OpenArchives.org website. The results of this effort are pretty interesting. Some of them:

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Posted in Linking Technologies, Raw Technology | Tagged digital libraries, Dublin Core, libraries, MARC, metadata, oai-pmh, standards | 2 Replies

Best Practice Proposal for a DESCRIPTION Datastream

Posted on September 6, 2006 by Peter Murray
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OhioLINK is deep in the process of migrating content from our old Bulldog/Documentum-based system to, well, something else, and we’ve been talking about the treatment of the metadata in the course of the migration. I think it is safe to say that the Bulldog asset management system (and Documentum, which bought and integrated Bulldog into its product line about five years ago) is not really known for its rich handling of metadata. Or at least how the library community thinks of metadata: Dublin Core, MIX, MODS, MARC, VRA Core, PREMIS, FGCD, etc. — all at the same time in the same application engine with structured crosswalks between them. 1 I think it is also safe to say that pure, unqualified Dublin Core, the only datastream that is required for every FEDORA object, does not completely encompass the descriptive fidelity needed for our objects. These observations, combined with reading a mid-term project report from the RepoMMan effort in the U.K., got me thinking about metadata and how we should store it in FEDORA objects. The outcome of that line of thinking is this proposal: “to establish a practice of creating an in-line XML datastream with the label ‘DESCRIPTION’ that contains the primary descriptive metadata for each object.”

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Posted in DRC, Fedora | Tagged DRC, Dublin Core, Fedora, libraries, metadata | 4 Replies

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