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Folksonomies are systems of collaborative end-user metadata of digital assets. This paper explores how folksonomies could be used in public library catalogs to enable end users to (1) organize personal information spaces, (2) supplement existing controlled vocabularies, and (3) create online communities of interest. The benefits and shortcomings of folksonomies are discussed, as well as customizable features in existing library catalog systems. A research agenda for the study of folksonomies is presented that focuses on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of folksonomies, as well the study of end users' metatagging behaviours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the mid-1990s, information professionals and computer scientists began to pay much attention to the concept of metadata. The rise of the World Wide Web highlighted the need to enable discovery, or finding desired information, on the Internet. Metadata was the hot topic at library and information science conferences and in professional literature, and many librarians and others expended enormous efforts creating and implementing new metadata schemes. One of these schemes, the Dublin Core, emerged in 1995 and quickly became the metadata standard of choice for digital objects. Although abundant resources have been put into the development and implementation of Dublin Core, the schema has largely failed. In addition, many other metadata schemes and profiles have also been developed, most of them specific to a particular community. The result is a Tower of Babel of metadata schemes, and sharing metadata among professional communities is becoming increasingly difficult. Multiple schemes also make the ideal of successful federated searching all but impossible. Full-text searching, offered as a solution by some, is also a failure for most serious information-seeking needs. On the other hand, the implementation of the MARC format in libraries has been the most successful metadata implementation in history. MARC, along with various content standards, has worked successfully for decades as a metadata schema. The library community's implementation of the MARC metadata standard should be more widely adopted or used as a model for metadata schema design. A single, proven, comprehensive metadata standard will better enable discovery and control of information than a proliferation of minor schemes ever will. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author presents the state of metadata schemes today and discusses the idea of a "third way" between free-text searching and full cataloguing. He concludes that there is no such compromise and suggests that metadata schemes will have to incorporate controlled vocabularies and detailed designators if they are to progress, thus leading to a confluence that will be, in essence, a new form of traditional cataloguing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In September 2005, Library and Archives Canada hosted a two-and-a-half-day event, the Canadian Metadata Forum. The theme, "Metadata-A Reality Check" was addressed by over twenty speakers and panelists before an audience of experts in information resource description and management for the Web across many information domains (libraries, archives and museums) and in a variety of formats (text, data sets and multimedia). The goal of the program was to increase understanding of the information discovery challenges posed by the World Wide Web and the benefits of improving alignment of descriptive standards across the domains to improve information sharing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SUMMARY. OpenURL link resolvers are a popular library technology that connects users to services related to a particular item, such as the full-text of an article, the location of a print journal, an interlibrary loan form, and a related Web search. Librarians at Illinois State University discuss applications of openURL linking beyond connecting citations in online databases to the full-text of the article. These applications include use in the library's online catalog, bibliographies, and usage statistics. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: Website: http://www.HaworthPress.com [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Library users wish to navigate seamlessly between library resources, and librarians wish to provide this capability to them. The OpenURL is a newly emerging standard in the library world that will allow librarians to create their own local links between the resources they choose for their users. Link servers such as SFX help librarians manage upkeep and resolution of links. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the use of online information exchange standards (ONIX) in managing library resources. Accounts on the various standard organizations involved with ONIX markup language; Details on the electronic data interchange needs of libraries; Trade format provided by ONIX for bibliographic metadata.

Examines the use of structured metadata for collocation and browsing capability. Ability of metadata to facilitate the task of information retrieval; Provision of context and meaningful differentiation in search results; Improvement of collocation and browsing capability.

Focuses on the relevancy and practical library applications of metadata. Utilization to administer, describe and manage nontraditional Web-based resources; Cornell University's participation in the Cooperative Online Resource Catalog; Procedures to select electronic resources.

Focuses on the metadata resource recovery based on the Dublin Core initiative in the United States. Discussion on the metadata elements and search engines; Library projects in relation to metadata by Harvard University; Basic categories of search engine landscape; Catalogue of descriptive or intellectual metadata.

Examines the use of metadata on the Internet, while anticipating the need for the establishment of a metadata repository for library collections. Discussion on metadata and its movement on the World Wide Web; Function of library online public access catalogs (OPAC); Benefits associated with OPAC and metadata usage.

Presents information on metadata in relation to electronic publishing. Definition of metadata; Examination of the relationship between traditional library cataloging electronic data documentation; Conclusion of the author.

A serials cataloger reflects on the challenges posed by digital preservation and the availability of bibliographic metadata outside of the traditional library catalog. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A list of serials librarianship projects is presented. The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and Project Counter are collaborating on a project to promote the harvesting of statistical data via the web using NISO's Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI). Portico, an electronic-archiving service, is being supported by JSTOR, a non-profit organization to archive academic journals, Ithaka Harbors Inc., a non-profit organization to advance information technologies in higher education, and the U.S. Library of Congress. Transfer, an industry-wide organization including librarians, publishers, and agents, has formed to improve the procedures and polices for transferring journals.

SUMMARY. This session, presented by Nathan Rupp, focused on creating a central repository at Cornell University for metadata tools. Rupp hopes that by implementing a repository for metadata tools digital projects librarians across campus will be able to utilize the best tools available instead of recreating tools or spending time searching via telephone for tools. This process will be revolutionary, bringing together all of Cornell's libraries. It will create an efficient and valuable repository to facilitate better metadata management. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: Website: http://www.HaworthPress.com [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the presentations at the Great Ideas Showcase in the 30th annual conference of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG ) held in Washington D.C. on May 27-30, 2015. These include Deconstructing the Core Competencies to Build the Digital Future by Stacy Baggett, Reimagining Serials: Small Steps Toward a Linked Data Future by Kevin Balster and the Impact of Research on Public Policy by Sara Rouhi.

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses various reports published within the issue including "Open Access in Scholarly Publishing: Embracing Principles and Avoiding Pitfalls,"iTunes Metadata and Classical Music: Issues and Solutions for Crowdsourced Metadata in iTunes" and "Continuing Digital Divide in the United States."

Focuses on the Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC) project of the OCLC Office of Research. Objective of the project to explore how libraries can cooperatively create and share metadata; Management of materials available on the World Wide Web; Goals of the CORC Research Project; Capabilities of the CORC engine.