Paper Abstracts
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Poster Abstracts
| Poster Author | Poster Title & Abstract |
| Nick Steffel | TITLE: Better, Faster, Stronger: Building a Better Dublin Core Generator ABSTRACT: A number of online tools exist for the generation of Dublin Core code from user input, however various issues with their design and implementation limit their overall utility. Key issues identified were a lack of support for XML output, the use of non-standard elements and encoding schemes, lack of support for repeating elements as needed, and insufficient linking to online documentation for Dublin Core and the various encoding schemes supported by it. A new tool developed in response to these perceived weaknesses is discussed, largely focusing on the features included to address the previously noted concerns but with a brief overview of the tool's technological design as well. Areas for further development are also highlighted. |
| Haiyan Bai, Xiaodong Qiao & Bing Liang | TITLE: Semantic Bibliography based on Ontology and Linked Data ABSTRACT: The project of Semantic Bibliography Based on Ontology and Linked Data arises from the needs of bibliography organization and integration of National Science and Technology Library (NSTL) of China. The goal is to build a mechanism to identify, describe and organize the characters and relationships of all kinds of bibliography objects and provide linked data web for end users to access and browse expediently the bibliography objects and their relationships, such as the characters of multiplicity of information forms, variability in information life and complexity of hybrid digital object by following the linked web. We apply semantic technology of ontology and linked data into bibliography organization, including constructing NSTL bibliography ontology, transfering organization pattern and publishing linked data. The demo semantic OPAC supports dynamic facet query, semantic relationship query and complex relationship query. |
| Mark Notess, Jon W. Dunn & Juliet L. Hardesty | TITLE: Scherzo: A FRBR-Based Music Discovery System ABSTRACT: The Scherzo music discovery system is one deliverable from the Variations/FRBR project at Indiana University. Scherzo provides discovery for a FRBRized database of 190,000 music scores and recordings, the database having been created automatically from bibliographic records extracted from the IU libraries MARC-based catalog. Scherzo offers faceted search using such categories as instrumentation and creator/composer. It facilitates exploration of FRBR relationships of particular interest in music, such as composer, conductor, and performer. Most notably, Scherzo provides a list of matched works on the results page in addition to listing matched manifestations. Two evaluations of Scherzo have been completed, one analytic and the other a usability test with 12 students as participants. For both evaluations, Scherzo was compared to the IU production OPAC, IUCAT. Students were enthusiastic about Scherzo. The evaluations indicate that the role distinctions are helpful but that works list in the search results proved initially difficult to understand. The faceted FRBR relationships could be expressed differently in the search results and offered earlier in the interface to aid discovery. |
| Imma Subirats, Marcia Zeng & Johannes Keizer | TITLE: Metadata Approaches for Shareable and LOD-enabled Bibliographic Data from Open Repositories ABSTRACT: This poster presents the processes and paths of the authors who have recently prepared a report on descriptive metadata encoding recommendations for an European project, VOA3R (Virtual Open Access in Agriculture and Aquaculture Repository), which aims to deploy a virtual entry-point for exchanging and augmenting open bibliographic data, and thus improve the dissemination of research results in agriculture and aquaculture via open access. Specifically, our task was to prepare a report with a suggested title of "Recommendations for the Content Population of the VOA3R Service Provider". Since the VOA3R Federation consists of 17 institutions from 13 countries contributing bibliographic data to eight open repositories, the immediate need was for the analysis of the number and characteristics of the open access documents that will be accessible from VOA3R. Following this task, the next step was to propose encoding recommendations for the exchange of metadata between data providers and the VOA3R platform. Along with the wave of the Linked Open Data movement, the VOA3R project required that the recommendations should also be suitable for encoding with consideration to Linked Open Data |
| Dennis Spohr & Philipp Cimiano | TITLE: Integrating Ontology-based Metadata Enrichment into a CMS-based Research Infrastructure ABSTRACTS: This abstract reports on ongoing activities aimed at the development of an ecosystem of entities connected to a research institution, such as its researchers and the resources produced. In particular, we are investigating ways of being able to enter metadata descriptions in a uniform way on the one hand, and to expose them in various different formats on the other. In particular, we aim at supporting current standards for metadata exchange, such as the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), as well as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) in order to be able to interlink the descriptions with others available on the Linking Open Data (LOD) cloud. For the whole process to integrate smoothly into the existing research infrastructure, our approach relies on the Open Source Content Management System Drupal, as it is at the center of the current infrastructure for managing metadata. As will be discussed in the following, Drupal provides a number of freely available modules supporting the aforementioned tasks and, moreover, offers the possibility to further extend these modules. |
| Emad Khazraee | TITLE: Domain Specific Considerations of Metadata for Cultural Heritage ABSTRACT: This poster will present that at least two major approaches to cultural heritage are identifiable based on domain analysis method. Each of these approaches has their consequences in documentation of cultural heritage. The objective approach is still dominant in the documentation of heritage and is modernist, restrictive and exclusive in nature, whereas the interpretive approach is less restrictive and more subjective in nature. Thus, to address the requirements of the documentation of cultural heritage in today's settings, we should consider the consequences of the new approaches to cultural heritage. The new approaches to cultural heritage encourage us to review the considerations of metadata for cultural heritage and add a number of considerations of metadata for cultural heritage to our agenda. |
| Kai Eckert, Daniel Garijo, Michael Panzer & Ömer Perçin | TITLE: Metadata Provenance: Dublin Core on the Next Level ABSTRACT: With this poster, we present the current state of the DCMI Metadata Provenance Task Group, which will wrap up its work at the time of DC-2011. The motivation for a Dublin Core extension for metadata provenance is twofold: Firstly, we want to represent existing metadata provenance information in a simple and unified way that is well suited as an application of Dublin Core. Secondly, we want to enable the provision of provenance information for Dublin Core metadata in a Dublin Core compatible way. Thus, the main objective of the Dublin Core Metadata Provenance Task Group is to provide the means and guidelines to model and handle metadata provenance. The approach followed for this task has been to create a model as simple as possible, providing real world examples and mappings to other provenance approaches and comparing the complexity of the outcomes. |
| João Sequeira, João Edmundo, Hugo Manguinhas, Gilberto Pedrosa & José Borbinha | TITLE: Profiling Transformations in Heterogeneous and Large Scale Metadata Harvesting Processes ABSTRACT: In the data transformation process we have two fundamental issues: interpretation of the source and destination schemas and the definition of the mapping relating them. The definition of these mapping can also be called schema matching. While performed by humans, the matching process requires a huge intellectual effort to know the data to produce well suported matchings. The main goal of this project is to improve the data transformation process through the definition of measures to provide information about the data, thus reducing the effort spent by the human that performs the matching. |
| Matthew Miller & Chris Mullin | TITLE: Towards Contextually Descriptive Embedded Metadata ABSTRACT: Recent strides have been made in establishing standards for embedded metadata. These guidelines mostly examine the administrative and technical facets of digital media. Contextually descriptive embedded metadata is often mentioned only in passing. This is likely due to the different nature of the two types of data. Administrative embedded data is useful as a workflow aid, establishing ownership of a file or source of the material. While contextually descriptive embedded metadata is information such as the title of a painting, or name of an artist. The former is useful to professionals working with the materials, while the latter is beneficial to the end user. The huge potential audience that would benefit from contextually descriptive metadata is what makes it a compelling and powerful tool. The purpose of our project is to advance the use of descriptive embedded metadata through raising awareness (http://www.EmbedMyData.com) and implementing embedded functionally in open source systems. |
| Ricardo Eito-Brun | TITLE: Metadata Aggregation in Historical Engineering Archives: building an Integrated Metadata Registry ABSTRACT: This poster describes a prototype project completed by a research team of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid to build an integrated metadata registry (IMR) for historical engineering archives. The proposed solution offers a way to collect and aggregate metadata from a network of archives that hold historical fonds of civil engineering documents. To enable metadata agregation and ensure metadata compatibility, the archives participating in the network are requested to share authority records enconded on the definitive version of EAC-CPF and descriptors from a set of thesauri. The developed prototype makes use of automated remote calls through HTTP to collect metadata assignments (these are a subset of the EAD and EAC-CPF records created by the different archives, encoded in RDF) and then process them to build an XML Topic Map (XTM). The registry itself consist in an XTM file that is later processed to extract and build the different pages that the end-users and researches use to navigate the registry and discover the data and information spread through the different fonds and collections. |
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