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Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web

http://www.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/CTW.htm

"Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web is a clearinghouse of World Wide Web sites that have applied or adopted standard classification schemes or controlled vocabularies to organize or provide enhanced access to Internet resources." Includes links to many English-language and a few Swedish-language sites.

Author: Gerry McKiernan (gerrymck@iastate.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Organizing the Web

Keywords: Classification; Controlled vocabulary

Candy Schwartz: Metadata - General Resources

http://web.simmons.edu/~schwartz/meta.html

Links to a variety of resources on metadata - web resources, readings, projects, etc.

Author: Candy Schwartz (cschwartz@simmons.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Organizing the Web

Keywords: Internet; World Wide Web; Cataloging

Cataloging Internet Resources

http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/9256cat/toc.htm

Tips for cataloging Internet resources using AACR2 rules. Second edition.

Author: Nancy B. Olson

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--On the Job--Cataloging

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Organizing the Web

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Internet for Libraries--Practical Applications

Keywords: Cataloging; Internet; AACR2

CyberStacks

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/

An attempt at cataloging the web using the Library of Congress system, limited to the fields of Science and Technology.

Author: Gerry McKiernan (gerrymck@iastate.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Organizing the Web

Keywords: Science; Stacks; Library; Virtual; Organization

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

http://purl.org/DC/

"The Dublin Core metadata standard is a simple yet effective element set for describing a wide range of networked resources." Visit this web site to learn how to use Dublin Core metadata to describe and organize electronic resources. The site also contains information on the history and current activities of the project.

Author: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (dc@oclc.org)

Subjects:

Computers & Internet--Internet--World Wide Web--HTML

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Organizing the Web

Keywords: Dublin Core; Metadata

Encoded Archival Description (EAD) (EAD)

http://lcWeb.loc.gov/ead/

"The EAD Document Type Definition (DTD) is a standard for encoding archival finding aids using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress (LC) in partnership with the Society of AmericanArchivists." Visit this web site for background information and official documentation of EAD.

Author: Library of Congress (lcweb@loc.gov)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Archives & Records Management

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Organizing the Web

Keywords: EAD; Encoded Archival Description; Finding Aids; Metadata

Google Web Directory: Metadata

http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Technical_Services/Cataloguing/Metadata/

A large collection of links related to all types of metadata, arranged in subcategories for easy navigation.

Author: John Thiltges

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--On the Job--Cataloging

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Organizing the Web

Keywords: Metadata

Resource Description Framework (RDF) (RDF)

http://www.w3.org/RDF/

"The Resource Description Framework (RDF) integrates a variety of web-based metadata activities including sitemaps, content ratings, stream channel definitions, search engine data collection (web crawling), digital library collections, and distributed authoring, using XML as an interchange syntax." Visit this site for many links to press releases, articles, usage guides, and other resources on the RDF metadata standard.

Author:

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Organizing the Web

Keywords: Metadata

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/

"The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is an international project to develop guidelines for the preparation and interchange of electronic texts for scholarly research, and to satisfy a broad range of uses by the language industries more generally." Visit this web site to learn about TEI, a markup language commonly used for digitizing texts and other resources. The web site includes information on the history of the project as well as how to use the markup language.

Author: Wendy Plotkin and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (tei@uic.edu)

Subjects:

Computers & Internet--Computer Science--Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Organizing the Web

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