ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

The following annotated bibliography is on creating good metadata for visual images--practices, standards and methodologies. I began my search for articles on Wilson Web, found through the Library Literature and Information Science Full Text journal at Ryerson University.


1. "Cataloging Cultural Objects: Toward a Metadata Content Standard for Libraries, Archives,
and Museums." Technical Services Quarterly 24, no. 1 (2006): 73-5. Library and
Information Science, via Wilson Web, click here for link.

This article is a report of the ALCTS CCS Program from the American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, June, 2005. It contains valuable information on Metadata standards for all digital collections, including image-based ones in museums. This report in the article explains new found data about what the American Library Association things should be a standard for metadata in today's changing world.

2.Attig, John et al. "Context and Meaning: The Challenges of Metadata for a Digital Image
Library within the University." College and Research Libraries 65, no. 3 (May
2004):251-61. Library and Information Science, via Wilson Web, click here for link.

This article tackles the challenges and needs for strong, rich metadata in digital collections in the university environment. The article also discusses three metadata schemas, VRA, Dublin Core and MRS as well as about the Mellon-funded project, the Visual Image User Study at Penn State and how it has created a centralized image delivery service. It also discusses the use of discipline-specific vocabularies for metadata.

3. Murphy, James L. "Link It or Lump It: Basic Access Strategies for Digital Art
Representation." Journal of Library Administration 39, no. 2/3 (2003): 139-60. Library
and Information Science, via Wilson Web, click here for link.

This article discusses how to represent digital art as metadata. It includes suggestions for picking certain standards such as MARC21 and why it is important to maintain standards for metadata as well as cataloguing these metadata pieces. While it talks about operating digital art collections as a whole, it does discuss the uses and purposes as well as standards for metadata. Since digital art is a new concern, this article addresses the best way to approach creating metadata for these new art objects.

4. Huithwaite, Ann. "AACR2 and Other Metadata Standards: The Way Forward." Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 36, no. 3/4 (2003):87-100. Library and Information Science, via Wilson Web, click here for link.

This article discusses several important popular metadata standards in use today such as Dublin Core and the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, which are both very popular today. Not only does it go over what they are, but gives suggestion as to what type of collections they are used for and what they're strengths are. This is important to check out what types of metadata standards are used in different types of collections and how they are used before picking one for a digital collection.

5.Ercegovac, Zorana. "Special topic issue: integrating multiple overlapping metadata
standards." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50, no. 13 (1999):
1165-223. Library and Information Science, via Wilson Web, click here for link.

This article discusses how to deal with a potential complicated issue when there are several different metadata standards in use and how to deal with it. Ideally, one collection should use only one standard, but in some smaller institutions, this might not be the case. This is how to deal with these kind of problems and how to troubleshoot going forward to change the metadata to the same standards so they are compatible in collections.

6. Ahronheim, Judith R. "Descriptive metadata: emerging standards." Journal of Academic
Librarianship 24, no. 5 (1998): 395-403. Library and Information Science, via Wilson
Web, click on here for link.

he writer discusses standards for the creation and sharing of metadata that aim to allow better specification of resource content and enhance the use of Web resources. She reviews cross-disciplinary metadata activity and considers individual communities that are developing standards that will be of interest to the academic library community. Moreover, she provides a basic resource list that should supply up-to-date information on the standards discussed.

7. Campbell, D. Grant. "Metadata, Metaphor, and Metonymy."Cataloging and Classification
Quarterly 40, no. 3/4 (2005): 57-73. Library and Information Sciences, via Wilson Web,
click here for link.

This articles discusses a distinction common in literary studies that is used here to distinguish between metadata applications for discovery and metadata applications for use. Metadata systems for resource discovery, such as the Dublin Core, are continuous with the traditions of bibliographic description, and rely on a principle of metonymy: the use of a surrogate or adjunct object to represent another. Metadata systems for resource use, such as semantic markup languages, are continuous with the traditions of database design, and rely on a principle of metaphor: the use of a paradigmatic image or design that conditions how the user will respond to and interact with the data.

8.. Baca, Murtha. "Fear of Authority? Authority Control and Thesaurus Building for Art and Material Culture Information." Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 38, no. 3/4 (2004): 143-51. Library and Information Sciences, via Wilson Web, click here for link.

This article discusses the tools used in authority control of metadata and how they have evolved over the years. It also gives examples how metadata without authority control and give bad results for end-users. Collection-specific thesauri and subject indexes, and vocabulary-assisted searching and query expansion are also discussed.

9. McCallum, Sally. "MARC/XML Sampler." International Cataloguing and Bibliographic
Control 35, no. 1 (2006): 4-6. Library and Information Sciences, via Wilson Web, click
here for link.

The close relationship of MARC/XML to the recent ISO standards work associated with MARC in XML is described. Sketches of interesting applications follow with uses that range from MARC/XML as a switching format to a maintenance tool to a record communication format for new XML-based protocols.

10.Dean, Rebecca J. "FAST: Development of Simplified Headings for Metadata." Cataloging and Classifcation Quarterly 39, no. 1/2 (2004): 331-52. Library and Information Sciences, va Wilson Web, click here for link.

This article discusses the use of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and their use. In recent trends, driven to a large extent by the rapid growth of the Web, are forcing changes in bibliographic control systems to make them easier to use, understand, and apply, and subject headings are no exception. The purpose of adapting the LCSH with a simplified syntax to create FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) headings is to retain the very rich vocabulary of LCSH while making the schema easier to understand, control, apply, and use