LIS 2600 Reading Notes (Oct.1-Oct.7)

LIS 2600 Reading Notes (Oct. 1-Oct. 7)

Reading 1 - http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/intrometadata/setting.html

-Metadata = "data about data"
-Important aspect of the digital world as we try to discern the reliable from unreliable, in terms of information
-Information Objects have three characteristics - Content, Context, and Structure
-Content - intrinsic information within an object
-Context - Who, What, Where, How, and Why aspects
-Structure - Formal Set of Objects
-Archives and Museums are slower in deciphering metadata due to a slow adoption of standards and reference best practices
-Metadata with digital resources becomes about preserving the coding and information, rather than the representation
-Categorizing metadata relies on the information's function such as: Descriptive, Technical, or Use
-Major life cycle of an Information Object: Creation, reuse -> Organization and Description -> Validaton -> Searching and Retrieval -> Utilization and Preservation -> Disposition
-Attentive Metadata can lead to enhanced efficiency in information searches
-Understanding of Metadata can allow institutions to track their digital holdings in terms of legal rights
-Metadata accrues over time and the more we have the more we can discern about any given information object


Reading 2 - http://dublincore.org/1999/06/06-overview/

-The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is concerned with offering wide-ranging methods of interpreting and describing worldwide Digital Resources
-Requirements for the DCMI - Internationalization, Modularization, Element Identity, Semantic Refinement, Identification of encoding schemes, Specification of Controlled Vocabularies, Identification of structured compound values
-Works on basic assumption that owned information need to be defined to be accessed
-Has a designed set of programming and database 'semantics' to track information
-Based on Rules of XML
-DCMI has semantic refinement to ensure universality
-Vocabulary in DCMI allows for contextual decoding
-DCMI faces problem of adapting existing languages to an international standard


Reading 3 - http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Tutorials/ENDNOTE/intro.htm

-EndNote is the leading bibliography software on the internet
-Output in EndNote allows you to change reference formats and styles
-Clicking same heading twice will reverse order inputs
-EndNote is efficient because it saves files periodically to catalog works
-EndNote compresses files for easy use
-EndNote Library allows you to store multiple similar references in a single collection
-Can use online search to combine references from other sources
-EndNote can combine references from other compatible databases
-Cite While You Write allows you to add references to word documents on-the-go
-EndNote Style Manager allows you to cater to reference specific publications by converting them to the desired output
-EndNote X5 can automatically update reference to new scholarly standards