How To Use HTML Meta Tags - Search Engine Watch (SEW) Want top search engine rankings? Just add meta tags and your website will magically rise to the top, right? Wrong. While there is still some debate about which meta tags remain useful and important to search engines, meta tags definitely aren't a magic solution to gaining rankings in Google, Bing, Yahoo, or elsewhere – so let's kill that myth right at the outset. Let's look at what meta tags are, what meta tags matter, and how to avoid mistakes when implementing meta tags on your website. What Are Meta Tags? HTML meta tags are officially page data tags that lie between the open and closing head tags in the HTML code of a document. The text in these tags is not displayed, but parsable and tells the browsers (or other web services) specific information about the page. Here's a code example of meta tags: <head><title>Not a Meta Tag, but required anyway </title><meta name="description" content="Awesome Description Here"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"></head>
Metadata Interoperability: A Study of Methodology Metadata Interoperability: A Study of Methodology Lois Mai Chan, Ph.DProfessor, School of Library and Information Science University of Kentucky U.S.A. loischan@uky.edu ABSTRACT: The rapid growth of Internet resources and digital collections and libraries is accompanied by a proliferation of metadata schemas. Each metadata schema has been designed based on the requirements of the particular user community, intended users, type of materials, subject domain, the depth of description, etc. Introduction Recent decades have witnessed a proliferation of metadata schemas for description of digital resources. In recent literature, a great deal has been written about interoperability between and among different metadata schemas. Definition of Interoperability Many attempts have been to define the concept of interoperability. “The ability of multiple systems, using difference hardware and software platforms, data structures, and interfaces, to exchange and share data” (NISO 2004) Uniform Standard <?
Using Dublin Core NOTE: This text was last revised in 2005. As of 2011, a completely revised User Guide is being developed at the wiki page DCMI's Glossary and FAQ are also under revision. Table of Contents 1. 2. 3. 1. 1.1. Metadata has been with us since the first librarian made a list of the items on a shelf of handwritten scrolls. A metadata record consists of a set of attributes, or elements, necessary to describe the resource in question. The linkage between a metadata record and the resource it describes may take one of two forms: elements may be contained in a record separate from the item, as in the case of the library's catalog record; orthe metadata may be embedded in the resource itself. Examples of embedded metadata that is carried along with the resource itself include the Cataloging In Publication (CIP) data printed on the verso of a book's title page; or the TEI header in an electronic text. 1.2. 1. 2. 3. Commonly understood semantics 1.3. 1.
Innkeeper at the Roach Motel Show full item record Author(s) Salo, Dorothea Citation Salo, Dorothea. "Innkeeper at the Roach Motel." Date Dec 11, 2007 Subject(s) institutional repositories; open access Abstract Library-run institutional repositories face a crossroads: adapt or die. Permanent link Export Export to RefWorks Part of General Library Collection Metadata Thesauri Taxonomies Topic Maps! Making sense of it all Abstract To be faced with a document collection and not to be able to find the information you know exists somewhere within it is a problem as old as the existence of document collections. Information Architecture is the discipline dealing with the modern version of this problem: how to organize web sites so that users actually can find what they are looking for. Information architects have so far applied known and well-tried tools from library science to solve this problem, and now topic maps are sailing up as another potential tool for information architects. The paper argues that topic maps go beyond the traditional solutions in the sense that it provides a framework within which they can be represented as they are, but also extended in ways which significantly improve information retrieval. Table of contents 1. The task of an information architect is to create web sites where users can actually find the information they are looking for. 2. 2.1. Metadata 2.2. title
That’s Capital: Funding, Resources and Influence | Introduction to Digital Humanities The Link to My Prezi: One of the biggest issues facing the Digital Humanities field today is how to gather the resources needed to execute the ideas of the scholars and designers working in the field. This is not limited to financial resources, though those are important. Digital Humanists also need to gather time, people and social capital. Two of our readings this week- the second chapter of “Our Cultural Commonwealth” and “Innkeepers in a Roach Motel” by Dorothea Salo- deal with these issues. Six Challenges: “Our Cultural Commonwealth” points out six challenges facing the Digital Humanities. Ephemeral Data: basically this is referring to the fact that digital data is easily altered in a way that is untraceable. “Inn Keeper at a Roach Motel”: Institutional Repositories 1. Moving Forward: Salo gives 11 suggestions for what should happen with institutional repositories going forwards.
Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags This piece is based on two talks I gave in the spring of 2005 -- one at the O'Reilly ETech conference in March, entitled "Ontology Is Overrated", and one at the IMCExpo in April entitled "Folksonomies & Tags: The rise of user-developed classification." The written version is a heavily edited concatenation of those two talks. Today I want to talk about categorization, and I want to convince you that a lot of what we think we know about categorization is wrong. In particular, I want to convince you that many of the ways we're attempting to apply categorization to the electronic world are actually a bad fit, because we've adopted habits of mind that are left over from earlier strategies. I also want to convince you that what we're seeing when we see the Web is actually a radical break with previous categorization strategies, rather than an extension of them. PART I: Classification and Its Discontents # Q: What is Ontology? And yet. Domain
Library collaboration with large digital humanities projects The sustainability of digital humanities research projects is a pressing issue for humanities computing. Currently, even well-established large digital projects like the Linguistic Atlas Project (LAP) are at future risk because funding and other resources are contingent on grant funding or faculty status of the director, neither of which will necessarily be available to maintain the project over time. The mission of the university library, however, includes archiving and dissemination, now increasingly of digital materials as well as traditional paper. Collaboration with the university library is the only realistic option for long-term sustainability of digital humanities projects in the current environment. © The Author 2010. How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web | Miskatonic University Press Update February 2011: This has been translated into Dutch: Hoe maak je een facetclassificatie en hoe plaats je haar op het web? Many thanks to Janette Shew and the Information Architecture Institute's Translations Initiative for doing this. Also, How to Reuse a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Semantic Web, by Bene Rodriguez-Castro, Hugh Glaser and Les Carr, takes my example of dishwashing detergents and extends it into ontologies and RDF. Update February 2007: IA Voice has used this paper as the basis for a series of four podcast episodes! Denton, William. This follows Putting Facets on the Web: An Annotated Bibliography, and is the second paper I wrote for Prof. 0. Faceted classifications are increasingly common on the World Wide Web, especially on commercial web sites (Adkisson 2003). This paper will attempt to bridge the gap by giving procedures and advice on all the steps involved in making a faceted classification and putting it on the web. What are facets? 1. 2. 2.1.
Anatomy of the national archive Towards the Digital Library - Inside the British Library In the mid-1990s the British Library has undergone a most fundamental and transfiguring upheaval in the quarter century since its establishment under act of Parliament in 1972. It has also moved home, packing up 12 million of its books and periodicals, 39 million patents, two million maps and over a million sound recordings, and transporting them in 5,600 van trips from Bloomsbury and elsewhere to the Euston Road. Those seeking a gory postmortem of the protracted period of construction on the St Pancras site, or of the problematic process of fitting out and taking occupation of the new building, will need to turn elsewhere than Alan Day's latest book, Inside the British Library, the follow-up to his two earlier studies, The British Library: A Guide to its Structure, Publications, Collections and Services and The New British Library. His real focus is not the construction but the operation of the new British Library.
Metadata Interoperability and Standardization - A Study of Methodology Part I: Achieving Interoperability at the Schema Level Abstract The rapid growth of Internet resources and digital collections has been accompanied by a proliferation of metadata schemas, each of which has been designed based on the requirements of particular user communities, intended users, types of materials, subject domains, project needs, etc. Problems arise when building large digital libraries or repositories with metadata records that were prepared according to diverse schemas. 1. In response to the rapid development of digital libraries and repositories, many general and domain-specific metadata standards have been developed or proposed by various user communities. In recent literature, a great deal has been written about achieving interoperability among different metadata schemas. 2. 2.1 Metadata Schema A metadata schema consists of a set of elements designed for a specific purpose, such as describing a particular type of information resource [NISO, 2004]. 2.2 Interoperability 3. Figure 1. 4. 4.1 Derivation Figure 2. Figure 3.
Book Review: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information – Edward Tufte Book Review: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information – Edward Tufte Standard · Posted by qvdesign on April 13, 2012 · 2 Comments So here we have it; a book review of one of the two Qlikview recommended ‘must reads’ (the other being Stephen Few’s ‘Information Dashboard Design’ which I’ll cover at a later date), many of you will have already heard of the work of Edward Tufte so this review is perhaps aimed more at those new to Qlikview, Chart Design and Data Visualisation – although there is a crucial point for existing readers of this book at the end. First things first; who’s this book aimed at and suitable for? In short it should be read by anyone who has even a passing interest in Data Visualisation, this isn’t simply due to the ‘high level’ nature of the book but also the fact that it’s written in a very accessible style – very much unlike the more traditional ‘how to’ text books a la Mr Few’s. I do have to take a slight issue with some of the things he says however. Matt
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