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>The Library of Congress is pleased to announce publications of the final
>report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications) project.
>
> Greenberg, J., Spurgin, K., and Crystal, A. (2005).
> Final Report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation
> Applications) Project. Submitted to the Library of Congress
> February, 17, 2005. Available at:
> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/lc_amega_final_report.pdf
>
>The final report can also be found on the Library of Congress Web site for
>the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New
>Millennium at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/actionplan.html, which
>seeks to provide leadership to libraries and other information centers in
>confronting the challenges of networked resources and the Web.
>
>Dr. Greenberg served as Principal Investigator (PI) for the AMeGA project,
>a research grant which lasted a full year. AMeGA stands for _A_utomatic
>_Me_tadata _G_eneration _A_pplications project and the project had for
>goal to identify and recommend functionalities for applications supporting
>automatic metadata generation in the library/bibliographic control
>community. The project was conducted in connection Section 4.2 of the
>Library of Congress Bibliographic Control Action Plan. The Action Plan's
>charge for section 4.2 is to "Develop specifications for a tool that will
>enable libraries to extract [and harvest] metadata from Web-based
>resources in order to create catalog records and that will detect and
>report changes in resource content and bibliographic data in order to
>maintain those records. Communicate the specifications to the vendor
>community and encourage their adoption."
>
>The AMeGA research project pursed three main goals:
>
>1) Evaluate the current automatic metadata generation applications (in the
>following categories: document presentation software, tools created
>specifically for metadata generation, and online library cataloging
>modules for creating metadata);
>
>2) Survey metadata professionals to get a consensus on which aspects of
>metadata generation are most amenable to automation and semi-automation;
>and
>
>3) Compile a final report of recommended functionalities for automatic
>metadata generation applications. The final report was reviewed and
>endorsed by the Metadata Generation Task Force (MGTF).
>
>The report acknowledges the contributions of the MGTF members for their
>participation and their expert advice. In addition, since the final
>report was based partially on survey data gathered from a variety of
>participants that were recruited via a number of listservs, Dr. Greenberg
>also expressed her gratitude for input of the survey participants, both
>for the quality and depth of their responses.
>
>To find out more about the AMeGA project, please go to AMeGA Project Web
>site: http://ils.unc.edu/mrc/amega.htm
>
>Please feel free to forward this announcement to other lists.
>Apologies for cross-posting that may occur.
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