Mixing and Mapping Metadata to Provide

Integrated Access to Digital Library Collections

Karen CalhounDirector, Central Technical Services

Tom TurnerMetadata Librarian, Albert R. Mann Library

Cornell University

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Problem: Integrating Access

• So many information resources, so little time

• Information resources descriptions endlessly diverse– Cornell catalog, Library Gateway, and multiple

digital collections– Different discovery methods and metadata formats

• Searchers are on their own to be aware of collections, know how to link to them, and search different interfaces

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Problem: Resource Discovery and Deep Searching

• Learn about all collections available

• Learn about all collections that are relevant

• Learn about all of the items in all of the collections that are relevant

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A Solution: ENCompass

• Development partnership:– Cornell, Kansas State University, Getty Research

Library, University of Pennsylvania

• Addresses issues of metadata diversity– Cornell University catalog (MARC)– E-Reference Collection (DC)– Saving America’s Treasures (TEILite)

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Mixing and Mapping

• Baker: “metadata pidgin”

• Heery and Patel: “mixing and matching”

• Lagoze: “principle of modularity”

• “Mixing and mapping”– Robust searching– Cross-domain resource discovery

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Example: Digitized Pamphlets

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Collection-level RecordUNQUALIFIED DUBLIN CORE

Pamphlet OneTEILITE

OCRPage OneTEILITE

OCRPage TwoTEILITE

Status of the Project

• Development, not implementation stage• Nonproprietary resources for now

– Defining metadata types and mappings– Metadata loader

• Focus on prototype– Cornell catalog– E-Reference Collection– Saving America’s Treasures

• Licensed resources in 2002

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