OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives: Volume 18 Issue 2

Observations from a Nantucket sleigh ride

Norm Medeiros

This article reviews presentations given at the 2001 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications. It discusses the recent RDF/XML expressions proposed by the…

Arrangement techniques for archives and manuscripts

Randall C. Jimerson

Arrangement is the process of gaining physical and intellectual control over archives and manuscripts, in accordance with archival principles. Throughout the arrangement process…

Qualified Dublin Core metadata for online journal articles

Timothy W. Cole

This paper describes an implementation utilizing preliminary Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) guidelines for expressing Qualified Dublin Core (DCQ) metadata in RDF/XML…

XML and global name access control

Ki‐Tat Lam

This paper discusses why the MARC21‐based authority format has failed in a global setting and details the use of XML and its related technologies to achieve global name access…

XML and relational databases: uses and opportunities for libraries

Art Rhyno

Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) have a proven track record for storing and managing many different forms of digital content, and new strategies have been defined to…