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• Debbie Campbell
• DC-ANZ Conference
• 31 May 2005

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1. LibrariesAustralia

• ltmgt international metadata standards
• ltmgt MARC21
• ltmgt and protocols
• ltmgt Z39.50
• ltmgt OAI-PMH
• ltmgt underpinned by a
• record exchange service

http//librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au
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2. MusicAustralia

• ltmgt international metadata standards
• ltmgt MARC21
• ltmgt MODS
• ltmgt and protocols
• ltmgt Z39.50
• ltmgt URL query
• ltmgt underpinned by a
• record exchange service

http//www.musicaustralia.org
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MusicAustralia ingest procedures
http//www.musicaustralia.org/schemas/maps/maps-v1
.1.xsd
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3. PictureAustralia

• ltmgt international metadata standards
• ltmgt Dublin Core
• ltmgt and protocols
• ltmgt harvest control lists/
• http
• ltmgt OAI-PMH
• ltmgt advice on crosswalks

http//www.pictureaustralia.org
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Whats in an institutional repository ?

• Academic research outputs
• published journal articles, conference papers,
  book chapters and books
• from eprint repositories
• digital theses
• from Australian Digital Thesis repositories
• images
• from single focused collections
• new stuff
• preprints, research datasets..
• learning objects ?
• at NLA
• emails, staff papers, Harold White Fellows
  papers.

www.arrow.edu.au
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4. ARROW

• international metadata standards
• all those supported by a standards body
• interoperable core provided by OCLC, based on
  MARC21

www.oclc.org/research/projects/mswitch/example.htm
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The ARROW Discovery Service
http//search.arrow.edu.au
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5. Proposed People Portal
NBD Name Authorities File plus
www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/missingham200
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5. Proposed People Portal
www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/missingham200
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Metadata in portals

• ltmgt Libraries Australia
• local/regional/international ? national
• ltmgt PictureAustralia local/regional ? national
• ltmgt MusicAustralia local ? national ? community
• ltmgt ARROW regional ? national ? international
  AARLIN, OAIster, Google, and PictureAustralia

The more interesting question then is, how much
of the resources used in education are going to
be part of the 'walled garden' of the
library/LCMS/CMS/LMS, and what is going to be
taken from the wider Internet.
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Six windows of trust ?

• The National Bibliographic Database
• Google
• Our catalogue
• PictureAustralia
• Other catalogues
• Other aggregations

www.asknow.gov.au
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So whats the problem ?

• ltmgt trusted service providers have
  responsibilities
• ltmgt SPs need to worry about their global impact
• ltmgt SPs need to make their aggregations more
  transparent
• ltmgt SPs need to make metadata work harder

http//orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000667.html
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Creative cataloguing

• ltmgt committing to standards over time
• ltmgt which aggregation which standard ?
• ltmgt repurposing ? remixing

http//orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000657.html
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Creative cataloguing

• ltmgt what about having no standard at all ?

People should think not so much of the books
that have gone into the National Library but
rather of the books that have come out of it. A
library, after all, feeds the people that go in
there.
xxx
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The future of metadata ?
I don't know about anyone else but I became an
information professional solely to meet girls. It
hasn't happened yet, but the time will come and
soon where my PG Dip in Information and Library
Studies will mean I am inundated with attractive
young women desperate for me to help them out .
Do we throw out metadata, then? Of course not.
Metadata can be quite useful, if taken with a
sufficiently large pinch of salt. The meta-utopia
will never come into being, but metadata is often
a good means of making rough assumptions about
the information that floats through the Internet.

www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/CETIS-METADATA.html
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The future of metadata ?
Four word records for Lord of the Rings
www.fwfr.com
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The future of metadata ?
http//outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2005/05/world
cat_wiki.html
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Happy Birthday Dublin Core
www.oclc.org/research/announcements/2005-03-25.htm