Readings for Week Four - Gilliland and Weibel

Gilliland, Anne J. Introduction to Metadata: Setting the Stage.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/setting.html

Content == intrinsic
Context == extrinsic
Structure == intrinsic, extrinsic, or both

Interesting table of "typology of data standards" (table 1)
Table of different types of metadata and their functions (table 2)
Table of attributes and characteristics of metadata (table 3)

Reaction: I'm sure I've read or heard this all before in other LIS classes.

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Weibel, Stuart L. Border Crossings: Reflections on a Decade of Metadata Consensus Building. D-Lib Magazine July/August 2005.

Reaction: Now this is a great article - someone who has been working on the frontlines of metadata for a decade and doesn't fluff it up and make it more complicated than it needs to be. And from what I've seen, I love Dublin Core. It's a lot better than MARC!

I'm curious: "The International Press Telecommunications Council is exploring embedding Dublin Core in their new generation of news standards [17]." Did the IPTC end up doing this?

It's interesting that some of the challenges that Mr. Weibel wrote about three years ago haven't been solved yet - like author-created metadata. I also found "NIH Syndrome" interesting.