Apologies for any duplication
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Call for papers for the Special Topic Issue of the Journal of the
American Society for Information Science, JASIS, is published
in JASIS 48 (11) November 1997 on page [1082].
Title of the JASIS Special Issue is:
"Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards"
The deadline for submitting manuscripts for consideration for publication
in this issue is April 30, 1998.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Topic Issue of _JASIS_
"Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards"
The next Special Topics Issue of the _Journal of the American
Society for Information Science_ (JASIS) is scheduled to come out in
1999 on the topic of Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards.
The guest editor for this special issue will be Zorana Ercegovac who is with
the Department of the Library and Information Science, Graduate School of
Education & Information Studies, University of California at Los Angeles
(UCLA) and the InfoEN Associates (www.lainet.com/infoen/).
As more heterogeneous objects, including text, become available
electronically, people have just started to look at different metadata
standards that had independently evolved to identify and describe these
objects (e.g., geospatial data such as imagery archives and remotely-sensed
datasets; museum and cultural information repositories). These metadata
standards (e.g., TEI, FGDC, AACR2) come from different disciplines and
reflect different perspectives and traditional disciplinary cultures.
Only recently have we started to "mesh" these different content metadata
standards and converge into superstandard schemes.
Example is the collaboration between Federal Geographic Data Committee
FGDC Metadata and Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR 2nd ed.) standards.
Both standards have a capability to describe cartographic materials but
from different perspectives: while, for example, FGDC focuses on coordinate
access points, projection, and other spatial, temporal, security, and data
quality attributes, AACR2 is entering maps under the author main heading.
Similar differences exist in the areas of visual and archival representation.
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
-- Metadata elements for the representation of digital repositories
including networked resources; for example, which elements should be
included in a metadata
record for images and spatial datasets in general? Which data elements
should be
included at different levels of detail?
-- Integrating multiple overlapping metadata standards (e.g., AACR2, FGDC)
-- Federal metadata standards for data-intensive application areas
-- Designing a superstandard scheme, or a catalog, of metadata entries
-- Multiple levels of metadata for multiple user needs
-- Integration of data and its metadata
-- Economic implications for the integration of metadata standards for
multimedia and heterogeneous digital datasets
-- Application-specific metadata projects from academia, research
laboratories, governmental organizations, and industry
Inquiries may be made to the guest editor at [log in to unmask]
Manuscript submissions (four copies of full articles) should be addressed to:
Zorana Ercegovac, Ph. D.
Department of Library and Information Science
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
222 GSLIS Building
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
(310)206-9361 (work)
(310)391-3923 (fax/voice)
[log in to unmask]
http://www.gslis.ucla.edu/LIS/faculty/zercegov/ercegovac.html
http://www.lainet.com/infoen/
The deadline for submitting manuscripts for consideration for publication
in this special issue is April 30, 1998. All manuscripts will be reviewed by a
select panel of referees, and those accepted will be published in a special
issue of JASIS. Original artwork and a single copy of the copyright release
form will be required for all accepted papers (http://www.asis.org/
Publications/JASIS/)
Zorana Ercegovac, Ph. D.
Dept of Library and Information Science
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
222 GSLIS Bldg
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
Tel: 1-310-206-9361 Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.gslis.ucla.edu/LIS/faculty/zercegov/ercegovac.html
An old writer says that there are four sorts of readers:
Sponges, which attract all without distinguishing;
Howre-glasses, which receive and powre out as fast;
Bagges, which retain the degrees of the spices and let the wine escape; and
SIEVES, which retain the best only.
A man wastes a great many years before he reaches the "sieve" stage.
-- Sir William Osler (1849-1919) "Aphorisms"
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