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Such terms as “metadata”, “web strategies”, “interoperability” are commonly used whenever the perspectives of cultural heritage memories on the web are investigated. The risk that well-established methods of preserving and publishing the output of intellectual and artistic activities could hinder data exchange procedures as well as making the creation of multidisciplinary discovery systems required for carrying out reasearch – even in the humanities – is under assessment. The earliest projects adopted the same electronic format and cataloguing rules shared among classes of items of quite a different nature. Far from being the ideal solution, it has fuelled an animated world-wide debate. Nonetheless, thanks to this strategy North American institutions have created in just over a decade those massive digital archives which are the backbone of American Memory. In the meanwhile research on interoperability was carried out with the purpose of creating cross-domain linking devices and more powerful search tools. The latter should be the basis of networks aimed at fittingly supporting reaserch in the fields of historical and bibliographic studies.

Catalogue --- Metadata --- Interoperability

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This report describes the RAND Metadata Management System (RMMS), a system that manages metadata--definitional and descriptional information about databases, simulation models, and procedures--for relational databases such as those maintained in INGRES. Many of these databases have little documentation or other descriptional information to accompany them, making it difficult for users to understand the definitions, abbreviations, acronyms, and descriptions of the data elements stored and maintained in a database management system. The authors developed the RMMS with five major goals in mind: (1) provide complete, thorough, and standard database documentation; (2) record and manage information about different versions of each database; (3) maintain a history of the changes made to database tables, schema, or data values; (4) facilitate deriving databases for input to simulation models and for sharing among models; and (5) standardize the names of data elements that are conceptually the same but named differently or are named the same but are conceptually different. This report should be of help to users of other relational databases who would like to develop a similar metadata repository for their own set of databases.

Metadata. --- Database management. --- Database design. --- Ingres (Computer file)

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This report describes a research project whose objective is to improve the interaction between a database user and a relational database management system. It discusses the "data flow" gap between (1) external databases acquired from public agencies and (2) datasets derived from these databases to be used as input to specific simulation models. This gap is the lack of interoperability between external databases and simulation databases and the transformations that are necessary to derive compatible datasets. It also presents the computer software system the authors developed to bridge this data flow gap--the Intelligent Information Dictionary (IID) software system, which serves as a semantic-based interface between a database user and a relational database management system. IID extends the traditional roles of a data dictionary by enabling a user to view, manipulate, and verify semantic aspects of relational data. IID operates as a domain-independent kernel augmented with domain-specific knowledge bases. IID represents and maintains these knowledge bases as semantic metadata necessary for correcting external databases and deriving required abstractions and aggregations from these databases.

Metadata. --- Database management. --- Relational databases. --- Human-computer interaction. --- IID (Computer file)

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In the last years, institutional repositories of preprints and scholarly publications have become a peak experience in the digital library environment, enabling the involvement of authors and scientific communities in a free and shared access to the results of research, and to its circulation trough the web. This volume collects a series of essays, both published and unpublished, that Antonella De Robbio wrote with respect to the issue of scientific information, and to the reply given by the Open Access Movement (OAI). The collection aims to a double purpose: first, to fill the gap in the lacking Italian bibliography concerning Open Archives; second, to take stock of the difficult situation of the Open Access Movement, and of the hope of its advocates that this movement could promote a democratic and immediate circulation of scientific knowledge.

Communication in science. --- Research --- Information technology. --- Open access publishing. --- Information services. --- Catalogue --- Metadata --- Interoperability

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This publication contains guidelines and recommended best practice for the presentation of statistical data and metadata disseminated by national agencies and international organizations in various dissemination media. The handbook brings together in one publication relevant presentation guidelines embodied in existing international statistical standards where they exist. The handbook also presents for a standard set of terminologies and guidelines for the presentation of growth rates, indices and seasonally adjusted data developed by the OECD Short-term Economic Statistics Working Party.--Publisher's description.

Economics -- Data processing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Economics. --- Metadata -- Standards -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Metadata. --- Social sciences -- Data processing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Social sciences. --- Statistics -- Standards -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Statistics. --- Statistics --- Metadata --- Economics --- Social sciences --- Social Sciences --- Statistics - General --- Standards --- Data processing --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Data about data --- Meta-data --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Civilization --- Economic man --- Information organization --- Mathematics --- Econometrics