Metadata: Readings, Links

• Collection Development
• Library Selection Criteria for WWW Resources -By Carolyn Caywood; an early version appeared in Public Libraries
• Morton Grove PL's Website Selection Criteria -For their homepage, not their catalog, but still interesting
• NetFirst Collection Development Policy -From OCLC. Includes a statement of purpose for the catalog itself


• Databases
• NetFirst via Prism -Requires OCLC account and password; choose the database "nfirst"
• NetFirst via FirstSearch -Requires OCLC account and password
• Intercat -OCLC Internet Cataloging Project's Catalog of Internet Resources. Searches to try: "Magazine Index," "Internet Movie Database"


• Definitions
• Dublin Core Metadata -From OCLC
• To Hel(sinki) and Back for the Dublin Core -By Priscilla Caplan, University of Chicago Library; see also IFLA links, below
• Metadata FAQ -From the University of Arizona


• HTML
• HTML Quick Reference Guide -By Andrew Ford and Peter Flynn


• Lists of Links
• Dublin Core Relevant Publications -From OCLC
• Digital Libraries: Cataloguing and Indexing of Electronic Resources -From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
• Proceedings of the OCLC Internet Cataloging Colloquium -San Antonio, 1996


• Listservs and E-Journals
• Autocat Archive
• PACS Review
• PACS-L Archive
• Web4Lib Archive


• Manuals
• Cataloging Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical Guide -Nancy B. Olson, editor
• MARC Home Page -From the Library of Congress


• OCLC Position Papers
• Catalogers and the Creation of Metadata Systems -By Kevin L. Butterfield, University of Michigan
• Access to Networked Documents: Catalogs? Search Engines? Both? -By Arlene G. Taylor, University of Pittsburgh


• Project Descriptions
• The Ambivalent Library -By Mark R. Watson, University of Oregon
• Cataloging Web Sites (Summary of Responses) -Discussion on COLLDV-L, June, 1998; nine different libraries tell their tales
• OCLC: Internet Cataloging Project -Project summary; list of links


• Utilities
• PURL Homepage -Establish or maintain a persistent URL


Last revised June 12, 1998
Anna Seaberg, King County Library System
aseaberg@kcls.org