TY - JOUR
T1 - The CIC metadata portal
T2 - A collaborative effort in the area of digital libraries
AU - Foulonneau, Muriel
AU - Cole, Timothy W.
AU - Blair, Charles
AU - Gorman, Peter C.
AU - Hagedorn, Kat
AU - Riley, Jenn
N1 - Funding Information:
Success to date suggests a clear benefit of the collaboration to partners. Discoverability of their resources has been enhanced, not only through participation in a shared CIC search/discovery service but also through implementation of a number of additional functions helpful to the discovery, manipulation, and comprehension of relevant cultural and educative digital resources. This project was begun with active participation and financial support of ten of the thirteen CIC member institutions. By June 2005, all three of the remaining institutions had joined, bringing participation to 100% and testifying to the usefulness of collaboration in digital library projects. This project can serve as a model for other similar cooperative digital resource projects.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The CIC consortium includes 12 major Midwestern Universities. Their libraries have decided to share the cost of a joint project (2003-2006) aimed at better understanding the mechanisms by which emerging technologies and standards can facilitate metadata sharing and the creation of value-added services for their users. The CIC metadata portal project has performed advanced work in the area of Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, collection-level descriptions, metadata transformation and enrichment, and practices and usability of metadata standards. It has provided an opportunity for increased collaboration between CIC academic libraries and a way to highlight the wealth of digital resources held by the participating libraries. This article describes the project and enumerates project accomplishments. The project has helped to better the way in which partner institutions share information about digital content and provide access to digital resources. Four content providers of the project highlight different aspects of the project and the practical benefits they found in the collaboration.
AB - The CIC consortium includes 12 major Midwestern Universities. Their libraries have decided to share the cost of a joint project (2003-2006) aimed at better understanding the mechanisms by which emerging technologies and standards can facilitate metadata sharing and the creation of value-added services for their users. The CIC metadata portal project has performed advanced work in the area of Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, collection-level descriptions, metadata transformation and enrichment, and practices and usability of metadata standards. It has provided an opportunity for increased collaboration between CIC academic libraries and a way to highlight the wealth of digital resources held by the participating libraries. This article describes the project and enumerates project accomplishments. The project has helped to better the way in which partner institutions share information about digital content and provide access to digital resources. Four content providers of the project highlight different aspects of the project and the practical benefits they found in the collaboration.
KW - Academic libraries collaboration
KW - Collaborative project
KW - Collection level description
KW - Communication between service providers and data providers
KW - Metadata aggregation
KW - Metadata sharing
KW - OAI set descriptions
KW - Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata harvesting
KW - Shareable metadata
KW - Thumbnails
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U2 - 10.1300/J122v26n03_08
DO - 10.1300/J122v26n03_08
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34247115521
SN - 0194-262X
VL - 26
SP - 111
EP - 135
JO - Science and Technology Libraries
JF - Science and Technology Libraries
IS - 3-4
ER -