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@article{2354960520061101, abstract = {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}, author = {Beall, Jeffrey}, citeulike-article-id = {4069727}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lxh&AN=23549605&loginpage=login.asp&site=ehost-live&scope=site}, journal = {Serials Librarian}, keywords = {cataloging, information, machine-readable, marc, metadata, retrieval, science, scientists}, number = {2}, posted-at = {2009-02-19 08:29:57}, priority = {2}, title = {The Death of Metadata.}, url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lxh&AN=23549605&loginpage=login.asp&site=ehost-live&scope=site}, volume = {51}, year = {20061101} }

TY - JOUR ID - 2354960520061101 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4069727 N2 - 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 IS - 2 JF - Serials Librarian TI - The Death of Metadata. VL - 51 KW - cataloging KW - information KW - machine-readable KW - marc KW - metadata KW - retrieval KW - science KW - scientists AU - Beall, Jeffrey PY - 20061101/// UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lxh&AN=23549605&loginpage=login.asp&site=ehost-live&scope=site ER -