New Metadata Standards for Digital Resources: MODS and METS

Metadata Standards for Educational Resources

E ach semester, I create Web-based learning experiences for my students by weaving together digital educational resources or learning objects such as videos, images, assessments, simulations, or tutorials. Often I use previously created material, if only I can find it. One current challenge of distributed learning is creating and managing content to facilitate reuse. Instructors as well as stud...

Digital Preservation Metadata Standards

Metadata Standards for Web-Based Resources

ne of the main reasons for the Web's success is that it lets us provide information to millions of people. We can integrate information already available somewhere on the Web in our own pages by just adding a link. However, finding relevant information has become more difficult. Search engines usually offer thousands of query results if the user provides popular or generic keywords. The problem...

Using METS, PREMIS and MODS for Archiving eJournals

As institutions turn towards developing archival digital repositories, many decisions on the use of metadata have to be made. In addition to deciding on the more traditional descriptive and administrative metadata, particular care needs to be given to the choice of structural and preservation metadata, as well as to integrating the various metadata components. This paper reports on the use of M...

Digital Rights Management Metadata and Standards

In the digital world, several ways to organize and describe digital rights management (DRM) have been developed to enforce fairness and transparency in business trades. Metadata is beginning to serve this purpose as it attempts to address property rights, licensing, privacy, and confidentiality issues in a manner that ideally renders information or content easily accessible over a variety of pl...