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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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1 Introduction to Metadata for Digital Collections |
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1 | (26) |
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1 | (6) |
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1.2 What Is a Digital Collection? |
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7 | (3) |
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1.3 What Does Metadata Do? |
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10 | (2) |
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12 | (1) |
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12 | (4) |
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1.6 Creating a Digital Collection |
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16 | (4) |
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1.7 Metadata for Digital Collections |
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20 | (4) |
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1.7.1 Designing and Documenting a Metadata Application Profile |
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20 | (1) |
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1.7.2 Creating Metadata for Digital Objects |
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21 | (3) |
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1.7.3 Metadata Sharing, Harvesting, and Aggregating |
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24 | (1) |
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24 | (3) |
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25 | (2) |
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2 Introduction to Resource Description |
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27 | (38) |
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27 | (17) |
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28 | (2) |
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2.1.2 Metadata Descriptions and Records |
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30 | (2) |
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2.1.3 Granularity of Description |
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32 | (3) |
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2.1.4 Element Repeatability |
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35 | (1) |
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2.1.5 Element Functionality |
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36 | (5) |
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2.1.6 The Need for Research |
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41 | (3) |
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2.2 Local versus Standard, Shareable Element Sets |
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44 | (1) |
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2.3 Describing Digital versus Original Resources |
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45 | (6) |
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2.3.1 The One-To-One Principle |
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46 | (1) |
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2.3.2 Content versus Carrier |
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46 | (3) |
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2.3.3 Problems with the One-to-One Principle in Practice |
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49 | (2) |
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2.4 Descriptive versus Administrative Metadata |
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51 | (2) |
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2.5 Metadata as Data for Machine Processing |
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53 | (6) |
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2.6 Metadata Elements Commonly Needed for Digital Collection Resource Description |
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59 | (3) |
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62 | (3) |
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63 | (2) |
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65 | (20) |
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3.1 Introduction to Dublin Core Metadata Elements |
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65 | (1) |
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3.2 Simple (Unqualified) Dublin Core |
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66 | (3) |
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3.3 Qualified Dublin Core |
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69 | (7) |
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3.4 Creation and Use of Dublin Core Metadata |
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76 | (3) |
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79 | (3) |
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82 | (3) |
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83 | (2) |
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4 Resource Description: Identification and Responsibility |
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85 | (36) |
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4.1 Basic Resource Identification Elements |
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86 | (25) |
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87 | (4) |
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91 | (2) |
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93 | (1) |
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4.1.4 Dublin Core Identifier |
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94 | (1) |
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95 | (6) |
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101 | (3) |
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104 | (1) |
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4.1.8 Dublin Core Language |
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105 | (1) |
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4.1.9 Resource Attributes Not Readily Accommodated in Dublin Core |
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106 | (5) |
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4.2 Name, Responsibility, and Intellectual Property Elements |
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111 | (8) |
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4.2.1 Names and Roles of Agents Responsible for Resources |
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112 | (1) |
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4.2.2 Dublin Core Creator and Contributor |
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113 | (3) |
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4.2.3 Publishers and Publication |
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116 | (1) |
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4.2.4 Dublin Core Publisher |
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116 | (2) |
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4.2.5 Rights, Ownership, and Restrictions on Access |
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118 | (1) |
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118 | (1) |
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119 | (2) |
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120 | (1) |
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5 Resource Description: Content and Relationship Elements |
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121 | (44) |
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5.1 Resource Content and Carrier Elements |
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121 | (9) |
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5.1.1 Content Types and Genres |
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122 | (2) |
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124 | (3) |
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5.1.3 Formats and Physical Description |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (2) |
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5.2 Subject Content Elements |
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130 | (23) |
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132 | (1) |
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5.2.1.1 Subject Analysis, Representation, and Retrieval |
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132 | (2) |
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5.2.1.2 Analyzing and Identifying Subject Content |
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134 | (1) |
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5.2.1.3 Aboutness, Ofness, Isness, and Facets |
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135 | (3) |
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5.2.1.4 Exhaustivity: Number of Subject Terms |
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138 | (1) |
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5.2.1.5 Specificity: Specific versus General Subject Terms |
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139 | (1) |
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5.2.1.6 Subject Analysis and Indexing of Images |
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139 | (5) |
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5.2.2 Dublin Core Subject |
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144 | (3) |
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5.2.3 Dublin Core Coverage |
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147 | (2) |
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5.2.4 Descriptions, Abstracts, and Tables of Contents |
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149 | (1) |
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5.2.5 Dublin Core Description |
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150 | (3) |
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5.3 Resource Relationship Elements |
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153 | (8) |
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5.3.1 Relationships among Different Resources |
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154 | (1) |
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5.3.2 Dublin Core Relation and Source |
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155 | (6) |
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161 | (4) |
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162 | (3) |
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6 Controlled Vocabularies for Improved Resource Discovery |
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165 | (22) |
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6.1 Improving Resource Discovery |
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165 | (4) |
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6.2 Types of Controlled Vocabularies |
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169 | (8) |
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170 | (2) |
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172 | (1) |
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172 | (2) |
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6.2.4 Taxonomies and Classification Schemes |
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174 | (1) |
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175 | (1) |
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6.2.6 Subject Heading Lists |
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176 | (1) |
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6.3 Using Established Vocabularies |
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177 | (3) |
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6.4 Creating Your Own Vocabularies |
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180 | (3) |
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6.5 Controlled Vocabularies as Linked Data |
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183 | (2) |
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185 | (2) |
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186 | (1) |
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187 | (18) |
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187 | (5) |
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7.1.1 Introduction to Metadata Encoding and XML |
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187 | (2) |
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7.1.2 XML Syntax: Elements and Attributes |
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189 | (3) |
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7.1.3 Well-Formed versus Valid XML |
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192 | (1) |
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7.1 A. XML Namespaces and Metadata Modularity |
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192 | (3) |
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7.1.5 Creating Metadata in XML |
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195 | (1) |
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7.2 XML Metadata Record Examples |
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195 | (6) |
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195 | (3) |
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198 | (3) |
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7.3 Anatomy of an XML Metadata Record |
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201 | (1) |
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202 | (3) |
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204 | (1) |
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8 MODS: The Metadata Object Description Schema |
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205 | (64) |
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8.1 Introduction and Overview |
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206 | (6) |
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8.1.1 MODS Implementation Projects |
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207 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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8.1.3.1 Container Elements and Subelements |
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208 | (1) |
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8.1.3.2 Element Attributes |
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209 | (2) |
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8.1.4 Flexibility in MODS Level of Detail and Granularity |
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211 | (1) |
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8.2 MODS Elements: An Overview with Examples |
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212 | (37) |
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212 | (4) |
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216 | (6) |
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8.2.3 MODS typeOfResource |
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222 | (1) |
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223 | (2) |
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225 | (4) |
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229 | (2) |
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8.2.7 MODS physicalDescription |
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231 | (1) |
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232 | (2) |
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8.2.9 MODS tableOfContents |
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234 | (1) |
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8.2.10 MODS targetAudience |
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234 | (1) |
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235 | (1) |
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236 | (4) |
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8.2.13 MODS classification |
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240 | (1) |
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241 | (3) |
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244 | (1) |
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245 | (1) |
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8.2.17 MODS accessCondition |
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246 | (1) |
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247 | (1) |
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248 | (1) |
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248 | (1) |
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249 | (13) |
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8.3.1 Complete MODS Record Example |
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249 | (4) |
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8.3.2 Creating MODS XML Records |
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253 | (5) |
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8.3.3 Displaying and Transforming MODS XML Records |
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258 | (1) |
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8.3.4 Qualified Dublin Core and MODS Record Comparison |
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259 | (3) |
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8.4 Mapping from Dublin Core to MODS |
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262 | (5) |
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267 | (2) |
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268 | (1) |
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9 VRA Core: The Visual Resources Association Core Categories |
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269 | (24) |
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9.1 Introduction to Metadata for Objects of Visual Culture |
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269 | (3) |
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9.1.1 Metadata for Museum Objects |
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269 | (2) |
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9.1.2 Metadata Standards for Museum Objects and Works of Visual Culture |
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271 | (1) |
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272 | (18) |
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273 | (1) |
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9.2.2 VRA 3.0 Record Examples |
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274 | (1) |
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274 | (6) |
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9.2.4 VRA 4.0 Record Examples |
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280 | (9) |
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9.2.5 VRA Core 4.0 and Linked Data |
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289 | (1) |
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290 | (3) |
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291 | (2) |
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10 Metadata Interoperability, Shareability, and Quality |
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293 | (30) |
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293 | (1) |
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10.2 Short- and Long-Term Metadata Viability |
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294 | (1) |
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10.3 Metadata Sharing, Harvesting, and Aggregating |
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294 | (2) |
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10.4 OAI Metadata Harvesting |
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296 | (2) |
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10.5 Metadata Mapping and Crosswalks |
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298 | (3) |
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10.6 Metadata Conversion and Processing |
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301 | (3) |
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10.7 Example of Metadata Harvesting, Processing, and Aggregating |
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304 | (4) |
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10.8 Good-Quality and Shareable Metadata |
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308 | (2) |
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10.9 Identifying and Remediating Metadata Quality Problems |
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310 | (5) |
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10.10 Five Ways to Improve Metadata Quality and Interoperability |
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315 | (5) |
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320 | (3) |
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321 | (2) |
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11 Linked Data and Ontologies |
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323 | (70) |
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11.1 What Are Linked Data and the Semantic Web? |
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323 | (5) |
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11.2 Linked Data and the Resource Description Framework |
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328 | (15) |
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11.2.1 Statements, Properties, Values, Triples, and Graphs |
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328 | (3) |
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11.2.2 URIs: Uniform Resource Identifiers |
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331 | (3) |
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11.2.3 Literals, Strings, Things, and Datatypes |
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334 | (2) |
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11.2.4 Statements, Records, Descriptions, and Description Sets |
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336 | (1) |
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11.2.5 Machine-Readable Encoding Syntaxes for RDF |
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337 | (6) |
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11.3 Linked Data in Action: The Web and Digital Collections |
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343 | (9) |
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11.4 Ontologies: Models for Linked Data |
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352 | (13) |
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11.4.1 Introduction to Ontologies |
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352 | (3) |
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355 | (4) |
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11.4.3 Properties, Domain and Range |
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359 | (6) |
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11.5 Ontology Examples: DC, MODS, BIBFRAME, SKOS, Schema.org |
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365 | (22) |
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365 | (5) |
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370 | (2) |
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372 | (4) |
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11.5.4 Controlled Vocabularies and LD Ontologies |
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376 | (1) |
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11.5.4.1 SKOS: Simple Knowledge Organization System |
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377 | (3) |
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11.5.4.2 Different URIs For the Same Entity |
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380 | (2) |
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11.5.4.3 Broader-Narrower Term Hierarchies versus Ontology Class Hierarchies |
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382 | (3) |
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385 | (2) |
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11.6 Linked Data in Practice |
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387 | (2) |
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389 | (4) |
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391 | (2) |
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12 Metadata Application Profile Design |
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393 | (48) |
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12.1 Metadata Application Profile Design and Documentation |
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393 | (11) |
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393 | (2) |
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12.1.2 Analyze Context, Content, and Users, and Determine Functional Requirements |
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395 | (2) |
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12.1.3 Select and Develop an Element Set |
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397 | (1) |
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12.1.3.1 General/Cross-Collection Metadata Application Profile Design |
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398 | (1) |
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12.1.3.2 Collection-Specific Metadata Application Profile Design |
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399 | (1) |
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12.1.3.3 Factors in Choice of Metadata Element Set |
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399 | (1) |
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12.1.4 Establish Element and Database Specifications |
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400 | (2) |
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12.1.5 Establish Controlled Vocabularies and Encoding Schemes |
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402 | (1) |
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12.1.6 Develop Content Guidelines |
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403 | (1) |
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12.1.7 Document the Application Profile |
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403 | (1) |
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12.2 Metadata Application Profile Examples |
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404 | (34) |
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12.2.1 General Application Profile Examples |
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404 | (1) |
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12.2.1.1 Mountain West Digital Library Dublin Core Application Profile |
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405 | (6) |
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12.2.1.2 South Carolina Digital Library Metadata Schema and Guidelines |
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411 | (9) |
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12.2.1.3 Dartmouth College Library MODS Documentation |
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420 | (4) |
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12.2.2 Collection-Specific Application Profile Examples |
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424 | (1) |
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12.2.2.1 University of Washington's Architecture Collection Metadata Documentation |
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425 | (2) |
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12.2.2.2 University of Washington's Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection Metadata Documentation |
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427 | (1) |
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12.2.2.3 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Transportation Around the World Collection Metadata Documentation |
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428 | (4) |
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12.2.3 CONTENTdm Examples |
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432 | (6) |
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438 | (3) |
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439 | (2) |
Appendix: Dublin Core, Mods, and Vra Element Mappings |
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441 | (2) |
Glossary |
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443 | (18) |
Acronym Glossary |
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461 | (4) |
Bibliography |
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465 | (10) |
Index |
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