Purpose Through examination of the Library Reference Model (LRM) specifications for
nomen and the potential challenges visual nomen might present for their description and …

Realia pose challenges when utilizing bibliographic metadata standards. Rutgers University
Libraries, in collaboration with Rutgers University's Classics Department, created a large …

Purpose Early Modern emblem books are primary sources for scholars studying the
European Renaissance. Linked Open Data (LOD) is an approach for organizing and …

The development and implementation of a new digital collections system built on the Linked
Data Platform has provided University of Maryland Libraries with an ideal opportunity to …

While the future of library bibliographic description is currently in a state of flux, libraries
have a number of opportunities to begin embedding and leveraging linked data concepts …

Metadata reflects a traditional notion of metadata as common descriptive elements
abstracted from homogeneous collections of resources. Following this simplistic model …

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Metadata Conference, which was held 17-
19 November 1998 at Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) …

Developed in the 1990s and revised in 2002, Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is an
XML encoding standard commonly used in libraries and archives in the United States and …

The Library and Information Science (LIS) literature contains a significant body of work
describing the development and usage of descriptive metadata element sets such as MARC …

This paper highlights problems of semantic metadata interoperability in digital libraries. The
prevalence of a plethora of standards and a lack of semantic interoperability can partly be …