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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 …

Usage And Functionality., Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

The Online Information Meeting each December in London is one of the last remaining conferences dedicated to e-resources in libraries. As such, it was somewhat surprising that few sessions this year focused on features or functionality of the latest products for libraries. Instead, the library track dealt almost entirely with measuring and demonstrating the value of the library to increase (or maintain) funding.

Are Google Books And Library Catalogs Enough? Developing An Online Research Advisory Tool In The Humanities, Kevin B. Gunn, Jonathan M. Smith

Library Faculty Publications & Presentations

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