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Information about makers is critical to bibliographic research, and special collections cataloging norms provide maker metadata. Still, access to maker metadata is hampered in online library catalogs. This article investigates the betterment of maker metadata in (or alongside) library catalogs using existing content guidelines, encoding schemas, and data models. Discussion finds that libraries have appropriate tools for improving access to maker metadata. This article thus encourages the profession to coordinate access to maker metadata. Cooperative maker description and the merger and/or linking of datasets generated by the research community are suggested areas for future investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the development and automation of quality assurance procedures for locally loading electronic books (ebooks) on the Ontario Council of University Libraries’ Scholars Portal Platform. The authors conducted a two-phase study of MARC record fields indexed on the platform to detect errors and implement workflow changes to the quality control process. The authors report on this process and the costs involved and suggest that the challenges of ebook metadata are not met by MARC and a new metadata standard should be considered in the near future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is about important artifacts of scientific research, namely models. The author proposes that the representations of scientific models be treated as works. Bibliographic families of models may better reflect disciplinary intellectual structures and relationships, thereby providing information retrieval that is reflective of human information seeking and use purposes such as teaching and learning. Two examples of scientific models are presented using the Dublin Core metadata elements. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Formal scientific communication is constituted by the documentation and dissemination of concepts through scientific works of accepted genre. Using analysis based on Peirce's ten semiotic triads and Eco's connotative semiotics, a scientific work can be identified as a trivalent compound connotative semiotic. It is concluded that a subject approach to document identification and retrieval may be based on document metadata, subject indexing, documentary surrogates, document full-text, the faceted indexes of XML Topic Maps, the graphics of Kohonen Self Organized Maps, and citation histories presented as mappings of co-citation clusters. Any and all of these approaches may relate to any or all of the three classes of knowledge content outlined above as being characteristic of a scientific work. Numerical analysis by neural networks of any of these characteristics of a document could lead to production of a “fingerprint” identifying the document and specifying its knowledge content. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information on metadata standards and includes a collection of web addresses for essential resources in this area to help library catalogers. It is stated that metadata standards are an emerging field, where frequent change and development are an ongoing process. Substitute methods for describing digital objects and storing/transmitting data about these objects are useful to explore for a variety of reasons. The list of web addresses includes Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) Standards, lcweb.loc.gov/marc, MARC21 DTDs for SGML and XML, lcweb.loc.gov/marc, Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) http://lcweb.loc.gov/mets.