17:610:553
DIGITAL LIBRARIES
Tefko Saracevic, MIchael Lesk
Fall 2002
Exercise 5
As was mentioned, at the course Web site you can access a separate directory: "D-Lib Edu: Sources for Education in Digital Libraries" http://scils.rutgers.edu/~tefko/Courses/553/D-Lib_Edu/.The purpose is to create a general resource that will contain links to great many sources and sites that are relevant to facilitating and furthering education for and study of digital libraries.
In this exercise you will select sources found in D-Lib Edu under Metadata. First click on D_LibEdu_home.htm. Then go to Metadata. There you will find a description and an assortment of sites. The file is organized in two parts: Standards and projects and General information.
The object of the exercise is to get acquainted with resources dealing with metadata and to learn some basic approaches to standards of use in digital libraries. Read the introduction first.
1. From the section Standards and projects examine three sites (but you do not have to stop there)
(ii) World
Wide Web Consortium (this is a complex site and it will take some exploring
to hit on metadata). But you can get also directly to http://www.w3.org/Metadata/.
Explore Resource Description Framework (RDF) in http://www.w3.org/RDF/.
(iii) a site of your own choosing and interest.
2. From the section General information examine two sites (or more if you wish):
(ii) a site of your own choosing and interest.
In other words, you will examine and report on five sites. Or more, if you find something interesting.