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A Study Of The Metadata Creation Behavior Of Different User Groups On The Internet, Jin Zhang, Iris Jastram

Staff and Faculty Work

Metadata is designed to improve information organization and information retrieval effectiveness and efficiency on the Internet. The way web publishers respond to metadata and the way they use it when publishing their web pages, however, is still a mystery. The authors of this paper aim to solve this mystery by defining different professional publisher groups, examining the behaviors of these user groups, and identifying the characteristics of their metadata use. This study will enhance the current understanding of metadata application behavior and provide evidence useful to researchers, web publishers, and search engine designers.

A Study Of Metadata Element Co-Occurrence, Jin Zhang, Iris Jastram

Staff and Faculty Work

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the internet web page metadata usage behavior in terms of their metadata element co-occurrences. Metadata are designed to facilitate both web publishers/authors to organize their web pages and search engines to index the web pages accurately.

Owl Usability Report: Appendices, Michael Salvo, H. Allen Brizee, Dana Lynn Driscoll, Morgan Sousa

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Research Reports

This document includes appendices to the OWL Usability Report and contains survey and testing instruments, testing scripts, and testing data. It also includes information about the Creative Commons licensing associated with the OWL Usability documents produced in 2006.

Purdue Online Writing Lab (Owl) Research Report, Michael Salvo, H. Allen Brizee, Dana Lynn Driscoll, Morgan Sousa

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Research Reports

This report outlines the history of the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) and details the OWL Usability Project through the summer of 2006. The paper also discusses test methodologies, describes test methods, provides participant demographics, and presents findings and recommendations of the tests. The purpose of this report is to provide researchers, administrators, and pedagogues interested in usability and Writing Labs access to information on the Purdue OWL Usability Project. We hope our findings—and this open source approach to our research—will contribute positively to the corpus on usability and Writing Lab studies.

Information Outlook, January 2006, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2006

Volume 10, Issue 1

Marc Vs Xml, Peter A. Zuber

Faculty Publications

Some of the issues in discussion between MARC and XML deal with the desire to expand the content of the bibliographic record. An often-cited example is the library that wishes to enrich the current electronic record with a table of contents. Although a table of contents inclusion is actually possible with the MARC record, it is certainly not an ideal platform for such content. The MARC record is described as being a "flat" record, meaning it does not have a hierarchal nature. As such, it is a poor candidate for hierarchal structures such as a table of contents. A discussion …

Information Outlook, December 2005, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2005

Volume 9, Issue 12

Quelques Remarques Sur Les Belgicismes Métalinguistiques, Jean-Nicolas De Surmont

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Of all Belgicisms, only a few have metalinguistic connotation and they have to be considered of special interest in this respect, even if the literature on French in Belgium has not addressed this issue specifically. This essay proposes some observations on these few important words, supported by recent lexicographical descriptions and data obtained through research undertaken in collaboration with Michel Francard of the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium).

Information Outlook, November 2005, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2005

Volume 9, Issue 11

Classification : Deciphering Kf Modified, F. Tim Knight

Librarian Publications & Presentations

This presentation was delivered at the Conference for Ontario Law Association Libraries in 2005. It looks at the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) and the origins of the KF Modified classification scheme. It discusses the basic call number structure and introduces some of the special features of KF Modified (e.g. Geographic Divisions (G.D.s); Constitutional law; Taxation. Income tax).

Metadata And The Technical Services Librarian, Katherine Rankin

Library Faculty Presentations

Introduction

- Early Las Vegas Digital Project

- Background on project

- Version 1—Used MARC Records

- Version 2—Used Dublin Core in Contentdm software

Information Outlook, October 2005, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2005

Volume 9, Issue 10

Volume 25 Number 3/4, September/December 2005 Olac Newsletter, Jain Fletcher, Jan Mayo, Barbara Vaughan, Vicki Toy-Smith, Jay Weitz

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized September/December 2005 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

Information Outlook, September 2005, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2005

Volume 9, Issue 9

Information Outlook, August 2005, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2005

Volume 9, Issue 8

Rehabilitating Killer Serials: An Automated Strategy For Maintaining E-Journal Metadata, David Banush, Martin Kurth, Jean M. Pajerek

Cornell Law Librarians' Publications

Cornell University Library (CUL) has developed a largely automated method for providing title-level catalog access to electronic journals made available through aggregator packages. CUL's technique for automated e-journal record creation and maintenance relies largely on the conversion of externally supplied metadata into streamlined, abbreviated-level MARC records. Unlike the Cooperative Online Serials Cataloging Program's recently implemented 'aggregator-neutral' approach to e-journal cataloging, CUL's method involves the creation of a separate bibliographic record for each version of an e-journal title in order to facilitate automated record maintenance. An indexed local field indicates the aggregation to which each title belongs and enables machine manipulation …

Information Outlook, July 2005, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2005

Volume 9, Issue 7

Volume 25, Number 2, June 2005 Olac Newsletter, Jain Fletcher, Jan Mayo, Barbara Vaughan, Vicki Toy-Smith, Jay Weitz

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized June 2005 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

Information Outlook, June 2005, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2005

Volume 9, Issue 6

The Dilemma Of Access: Describing Open Access Journals With Marc And [Other] Metadata Schemes, Monica Berger, Gloria Rohmann

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Information Outlook, May 2005, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2005

Volume 9, Issue 5

Information Outlook, April 2005, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2005

Volume 9, Issue 4

Information Outlook, March 2005, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2005

Volume 9, Issue 3

Volume 25, Number 1, March 2005 Olac Newsletter, Jain Fletcher, Jan Mayo, Barbara Vaughan, Vicki Toy-Smith, Jay Weitz

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized March 2005 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

Information Outlook, February 2005, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2005

Volume 9, Issue 2

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, Rosemary Chance, University Of Southern Mississippi

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Programs

The program for the thirty-eighth annual Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival held on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 2005.

Information Outlook, January 2005, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2005

Volume 9, Issue 1

Cataloging The Congressional Serial Set, Aimée C. Quinn

Library Scholarship

Many librarians question the usefulness of the traditional cataloging of difficult historic sets in a time when more and more information moves either to the Internet or is digitized outright. One of the most challenging sets to catalog is the United States Congressional Serial Set, a 14,000+ (and growing) mega serial comprised of five monographic sub-series. The Congressional Serial Set is an anomaly since it is both monographic and serial in nature. This article examines the intricacies in cataloging government publications in an electronic atmosphere using one House document in the Serial Set as a guide and examines the two …

Source Of Title Note For Internet Resources, Steven Miller, Greta De Groat, Susan Leister

OLAC Publications and Training Materials

The purpose of this document is to address this situation, for the sake of greater consistency in cooperative cataloging and record sharing, by providing:

• a brief selected list of terms commonly used for source of title and a definition of each
  
  
• a clarification of common sources and which of these commonly-used terms refer to the same source

Tren Dissertations

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) provides a gold-mine of information for theological libraries but has previously made this information primarily available in microfiche format. Librarians and computer personnel at Crown College in Minnesota worked together with TREN to make this information available in full-text electronic format through the library online catalog. This article explains the process so other interested librarians can work with TREN to do the same.