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Being a Librarian: Metadata and Metadata Specialists in the Twenty-first Century
(CIP (CU Library Iniatives in Publishing), 2008)This paper aims to forecast the changing roles of librarians especially catalogers and metadata specialists in today's technology-driven research, teaching, and learning environments, in which information seekers behave ... -
About and Contributors 'Metadata and Digital Collections: A Festschrift in Honor of Tom Turner'
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Found in Translation: Four Characteristics of Metadata Practice
(CIP (CU Library Iniatives in Publishing), 2008)In this essay Martin Kurth identifies and probes four characteristics of metadata practice: (1) that metadata work typically deals with metadata in aggregates; (2) that metadata practitioners’ responsibilities consist of ... -
The History and Current State of Digital Preservation in the United States
(CIP (CU Library Iniatives in Publishing), 2008)The world of information is becoming ever more digital. While advances in information technology have undeniable advantages, they also pose significant threats to the long-term accessibility of information. Digital information ... -
Looking Back - Looking Forward: Reflections of a Transitional Librarian
(CIP (CU Library Iniatives in Publishing), 2008)It has been just ten years since OCLC Senior Research Scientist Stuart Weibel brought together the "geeks, freaks and people in sensible shoes" for the first Dublin Core workshop in 1995. Those ten years have broadened our ... -
The Online Catalog as Data Repository
(CIP (CU Library Iniatives in Publishing), 2008)This essay will discuss the changing roles and work done by technical services professionals and the ways in which they can develop the skills needed for these new roles and opportunities. While catalogers needed to have ... -
The Quest for Electronic Resource Management Standards and Tools
(CIP (CU Library Iniatives in Publishing), 2008)Libraries and vendors face significant challenges in the new digital publishing environment. One of these challenges is to manage the information and workflows necessary to acquire and provide access to electronic resources. ... -
Introduction to 'Metadata and Digital Collections: A Festschrift in Honor of Tom Turner'
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New Approaches for Mainstreaming Metadata in Digital Library Project Development and Management
(CIP (CU Library Iniatives in Publishing), 2008)Metadata reflects a traditional notion of metadata as common descriptive elements abstracted from homogeneous collections of resources. Following this simplistic model, bibliographic terms, i.e. metadata elements, such as ... -
The Core Historical Literature Approach for Selection for Digitial Imaging
(CIP (CU Library Iniatives in Publishing), 2008)The Core Historical Literature Approach is based on the principle that effective preservation plans should focus on a specific discipline as a whole rather than on the holdings of an individual library and features the ...
