On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Sam Saunders wrote:
> I appreciate the information, and was keen to read it. But I wonder
> if I am alone in finding my lack of technical vocabulary a handicap?
> I am a "Content Specialist" (I guess, but it isn't a term I am
> familiar with), and have my own understanding
> of why the Dublin Core and its descendants will be important to the
> work I am doing. But I found few concessions to my relative ignorance
> in the report or the associated web pages.
Well, coming soon in the Web version of Ariadne will be a more "fluffier"
version of the Metadata report. Agree, it can be a seriously technical
subject, and metadata-babble (metababble?) can be very draining.
In the meantime, you may wish to look at Paul Millers "Metadata for the
Masses" article, which can be found from the Get Tooled Up section of
Ariadne issue 5:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ariadne/issue5/
...for an introduction to terminology and concepts.
This, and several other very useful or interesting resources, are linked
from the Metadata Resources (Dublin Core) list at:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc.html
Incidentally, one of the articles linked from there is "Searching the
Internet", by Clifford Lynch. This can be found in both the Print and Web
versions of the march edition of Scientific America, which carries a
well written section of articles on organising information
on the Internet. Kindly, the articles are on the Web and can be found at:
http://www.sciam.com/0397issue/0397intro.html
JK
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