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2013
metadata standards
What data identifiers and metadata should be used in historical and ethnographic projects, and is it appropriate and necessary to call for standardization? Are there technical means of supporting heterogeneous identification and categorization schemes? Many advanced digital projects supporting historical and ethnographic research comply with the metadata standards recommended by the Open Archives Initiative for web content interoperability. Please comment on the value (and possible limits) of encouraging compliance with OAI standards community-wide.
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Author: Kim Fortun
Date: 11 Oct, 2013
Many advanced digital projects supporting historical and ethnographic research comply with the metadata standards recommended by the Open Archives Initiative for web content interoperability. We need to examine the value (and possible limits) of encouraging compliance with OAI standards community-wide.”
One computer scientist seemed to indicate that the OAI standards are "out of date," and followed up with this: “On my comment about OSA being out-of-date, I was talking about how the standard uses older web technology and has not been updated or changed in quite some time. If I remember correctly it's based a XML encoded formate, using some properties and ideas that are a little out of date. If I were to do it today, first we would want a separation the data model and the data encoding. For example, many APIs allow you to get results back in JSON, XML, RSS, etc. This separation of data model and encoding allows you to support many different encoding standards, even ones that don't exist yet. I would use RDF to model the information (a language for modeling data, not just encoding it), giving the terms and ideas we care about URIs (just like URLs you find on the web) that can be looked up and explained to any human or machine.”
Author: Kim Fortun
Date: 11 Oct, 2013
Historian of cartography Pat Seed is involved in efforts to define best metadata practices for maps. She has noted that Dublin Core is far from sufficient.