Metadata

For announcements and discussion of metadata as it relates to digitization.

Library of Congress releases Metadata for Digital Content (MDC) specifications

As part of an effort to integrate the metadata created for their digitized collections, the Library of Congress has published two specifications under the general rubric of Metadata for Digital Content (MDC), a master metadata element list and a set of profiles of this list for specific projects.

Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core Metadata published as DCMI Recommended Resource

This recommendation "discusses modeling choices involved in designing metadata applications for different types of interoperability. At Level 1, applications use data components with shared natural-language definitions. At Level 2, data is based on the formal-semantic model of the W3C Resource Description Framework (as in Linked Data). At Levels 3 and 4, data also shares syntactic constraints based on the DCMI Abstract Model.

Brooklyn Museum releases their Collection API

Like the New Zealand National Library before them, Brooklyn Museum has opened up access to their collections via a Collection API. This is very exciting, as it lays the groundwork for multicollection mashups and other neat content and metadata reuse capabilities.

New blog: Metadata Matters

Metadata Matters is a new blog by Diane Hillmann and Jon Phipps. Definately worth subscribing to if you work with metadata for networked resources.

JHOVE2

The popular JHOVE application, which performs format-specific identification, validation, and characterization of digital objects, is evolving into a second generation, thanks to funding from the Library of Congress, under its National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) initiative. Detailed information is available at the JHOVE2 website.

Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange specifications released

The "production" version of the Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) specification is now available. See the press release for more information.

A metadata tool that scales

Will Sexton, Metadata Analyst / Programmer at Duke University Libraries has posted an interesting item on his blog that identifies some "Digitization and Description use cases". People evaluating or developing tools for digitization and digital assets managment will find Will's list very useful.

PREMIS 2.0 available

Major changes in the PREMIS 2.0 data dictionary include expanded rights metadata, more extensive significant properties and preservation level information, and a mechanism for extensibility for a number of metadata units.

Deadline for comments on the XML schema is April 24. More information is available at the PREMIS schemas website.

New OAI-PMH/OAI-ORE client package available

The National Library of Sweden has released OAI4J, a Java library (available under the Apache License) that implements a client API for the OAI-PMH standard specification from the Open Archives Initiative. It also has support for the upcoming OAI-ORE specification. More information is available at the project website.

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