Volume 50 (2003), Edition 4

The new opportunities for communication and publication which have opened up through the Internet and above all the World Wide Web (WWW) since the mid-1990s signify new challenges for academic libraries, which are responsible for collecting,...

This paper discusses the use of OCLC's Connexion service (formerly CORC) by the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. The Centre has completed, and is currently engaged in, a number of research...

This paper discusses the use of OCLC's Connexion service (formerly CORC) by the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. The Centre has completed, and is currently engaged in, a number of research...

The "semantic Web" represents one of the most important current trends in the continuing development of the World Wide Web (WWW). The ambitious vision of this next generation of the WWW involves achieving a new quality of accessiblity for content...

Registries have become established as tools of reference in association with Dublin Core metadata. In the future, complex and diversified metadata systems will be employed like the "application profiles" that are being developed at an increasing...

Metadata and Persistent identis (PI) are two autonomous areas, but related to each other in terms of syntax, semantics and function. The standardization of both areas is the necessary prerequisite for combining metadata with PIs and achieving a...

Authority files are a special sort of metadata: metadata for metadata. In a set of authority records that is separate from the metadata of a publication, the names or identis of entities which differ from those used in the publications are collected...

ONIX (the acronym for Online Information Exchange) is the first standard for enriched metadata about books, serial publications and other products in the book trade to be accepted around the world. It was originally developed in the U.S.A. with the...