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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Topic Issue of _JASIS_
"Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards"
The next Special Topics Issue of the Journal of the American
Society for Information Science (JASIS) is scheduled to come
out in 1999 on the topic of Integrating Multiple Overlapping
Metadata Standards. The guest editor for this special issue will
be Zorana Ercegovac who is with the Department of the Library
and Information Science, Graduate School of Education &
Information Studies, University of California at Los Angeles
(UCLA) and the InfoEN Associates (www.lainet.com/infoen/).
As more heterogeneous objects, including text, become available
electronically, people have just started to look at different
metadata standards that had independently evolved to identify
and describe these objects (e.g., geospatial data such as imagery
archives and remotely-sensed datasets; museum and cultural
information repositories). These metadata standards (e.g., TEI,
FGDC, AACR2) come from different disciplines and reflect
different perspectives and traditional cultures. Only recently
have we started to "mesh" these different content metadata
standards and converge into superstandard schemes.
Example is the collaboration between Federal Geographic Data
Committee (FGDC) Metadata and Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
(AACR 2nd ed.) standards. Both standards have a capability to
describe cartographic materials but from different perspectives:
while, for example, FGDC focuses on coordinate access points,
projection, and other spatial, temporal, security, and data
quality attributes, AACR2 is entering maps under the author
main heading. Similar differences exist in the areas of visual
and archival representation.
Specific topics of interest, but are not limited to, the following:
-- Metadata elements for the representation of digital repositories
including networked resources; for example, which elements should
be included in a metadata record for images and spatial datasets in
general? Which data elements should be included at different levels
of detail?
-- Federal metadata standards for data-intensive application areas
-- Integrating multiple overlapping metadata standards (e.g., AACR2,
FGDC)
-- Designing a superstandard scheme, or a catalog, of metadata entries
-- Multiple levels of metadata for multiple user needs
-- Integration of data and its metadata
-- Economic implications for the integration of metadata standards
for multimedia and heterogeneous digital datasets
-- Application-apecific metadata projects from academia, research
laboratories, governmental organizations, and industry
Inquiries may be made to the guest editor at [log in to unmask]
Manuscript submission (four copies of full articles) should be
addressed to:
Zorana Ercegovac, Ph. D.
Department of Library and Information Science
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
222 GSLIS Building
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
(310)206-9361 (work)
(310)391-3923 (fax/voice)
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http://www/gslis.ucla.edu/LIS/faculty/zercegov/ercegovac.html
The deadline for sumbitting manuscripts for consideration
for publication in this special issue is April 30, 1998. All
manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of referees,
and those accepted will be published in a special issue of
_JASIS_. Original artwork and a single copy of the
copyright release form will be required for all accepted
papers.
A copy of the call for papers will be available on the
World Wide Web as is further information about
_JASIS_, at http://www.asis.org/.
Zorana Ercegovac, Ph. D.
Dept of Library and Information Science
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
222 GSLIS Bldg
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
Tel: 1-310-206-9361 Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.gslis.ucla.edu/LIS/faculty/zercegov/ercegovac.html
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