Metadata

What is Metadata?

• provides a (usually brief) characterization of the individual IO's in the collections of a library;
• is stored principally as the contents of library catalogs in TL's (traditional libraries);
• is used principally in aiding users to access IO's (information objects) of interest.

Alexandria Metadata Manual

• Aerial photographs
  • Parent record for air-photo flight
  • Child record for a frame in a flight
  • Other-physical-form record, for scanned image of a frame
• Maps (hard copy). No link yet.
• Spatial data in digital form. No link yet.

Papers

• Metadata for spatial data in digital form. Alexandria and non-Alexandria papers.

Documents/Tools

• Metadata ingest into Alexandria
• A brief history of the Alexandria metadata schema
• Crosswalks
• Metadata standards
• Metadata standards: with brief descriptions and examples of implementations
• Tools for creating metadata
• Dublin Core Coverage Elements

Proposals

• Proposal for a Gazeteer Content Standard