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Terry, Will all papers be on-line or is this an off-line publication only? Bill Arms At 06:27 PM 8/11/97 -0400, Terry Kuny wrote: >This notice is being posted to several lists and newsgroups. >Please forgive the duplication. > >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) >[log in to unmask] >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 > > > > ===================================== William Y. Arms Vice President Corporation for National Research Initiatives [log in to unmask] http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/ http://www.dlib.org/ http://www.handle.net/ tel: (703) 620-8990 fax: (703) 620-0913 =====================================