The Design of Metadata Interchange for Chinese Information and Implementation of Metadata Management System
Resource
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 27(5), 21-27
Journal
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal Volume
27
Journal Issue
5
Pages
21-27
Date Issued
2001
Date
2001
Author(s)
Chen, Chao-Chen
Abstract
With the development of Internet, digital libraries/museums have received worldwide attention
and many developed countries are doing extensive researches on digital libraries/museums. In
Taiwan, many institutions have digitized their collections. In addition, major research projects
such as Digital Museum Project, Digital Archive Program, Digital Local Document Program,
and CMNet are either in progress or about to begin. To digitize resources and present them on
the WWW is the first priority; nevertheless, it is more important to organize these resources
based on their characteristics, so users may retrieve and use them effectively. In digital
library/museum systems, metadata plays a crucial role: its formulation has to begin with
understanding the user demands and object characteristics, and standardization is essential for the interoperability among information systems. Currently, regardless of their metadata formats,
most digital library/museum systems use XML or SGML as their importing/storing/exporting
language. In particular, with the advantage of SGML to supplement the limitations of HTML,
XML syntax is being promoted by the Internet communities with great efforts. This paper will
discuss issues related to the development of metadata and introduce the features, structures,
functions and use of Metalogy, a general-purpose XML/Metadata system, which is developed
under the Digital Museum Project funded by National Science Council, Taiwan.
Subjects
digital library
digital museum
Digital Museum Project
XML
metadata
Metalogy
Publisher
Taipei:Department of Library & Information Science
,National Taiwan University
,National Taiwan University
Type
journal article
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