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The Metadata Challenge: Promoting Discovery, Access, And Usability For Online Books, John Mark Ockerbloom Oct 2010

The Metadata Challenge: Promoting Discovery, Access, And Usability For Online Books, John Mark Ockerbloom

John Mark Ockerbloom

With millions of books, serials, and other documents now digitized, rich troves of information and culture can now be made available to anyone in the world with an Internet connection. But these riches are worthless if they cannot be found, accessed, and effectively used by the readers who need them. The key to unlock these treasures is metadata. Networked computing enables techniques for making metadata more effective than ever; yet in practice, online collections all too often either do not have or do not take full advantage of the best metadata they could use.

There is much ongoing work harnessing …


Metadata Cataloging, Storage, And Retrieval Of Multilingual Motion Picture Subtitles: An Xml Digital Library, Helena Marvin, Kimmy Szeto Dec 2009

Metadata Cataloging, Storage, And Retrieval Of Multilingual Motion Picture Subtitles: An Xml Digital Library, Helena Marvin, Kimmy Szeto

Helena Marvin

The popularity of motion pictures in digital form has seen a dramatic increase in recent years, and the global entertainment market has driven demands for subtitles in multiple languages. This paper investigates the informational potential of aggregating a corpus of multilingual subtitles for a digital library. Subtitles are extracted from commercial DVD releases and downloaded from the internet. These subtitles and their bibliographic metadata are then incorporated in an XML-based database structure. A digital library prototype is developed to provide full-text search and browse of the subtitle text with single- or parallel-language displays. The resulting product includes a set of …