A Metadata model for description of digital folklore collections

Abstract

It is widely known that folklore collections are valuable sources to study the tradition of specific groups of people and places, since they contain various kinds of material. Nowadays, many digitization projects have taken place to preserve and expose the cultural features of a country in the web. An important part of a digitization project is the development and design of the right metadata schema to satisfy user’s information needs. Many metadata standards have been developed to preserve and describe cultural heritage collections, providing to users rich information but without being compatible with each other. This has caused problems both in users and systems, since the differences of the holding institutions and of the metadata schemas in syntax and semantics prevent the retrieval of information from heterogeneous resources. The doctoral dissertation thesis approaches in theoretical and practical way the policy for designing a metadata model to document digital folklore collectio ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/19144
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/19144
ND
19144
Alternative title
Μεταδεδομένα διαχείρισης λαογραφικών συλλογών
Author
Lourdi, Irene (Father's name: Panagiotis)
Date
2010
Degree Grantor
Ionian University
Committee members
Παπαθεοδώρου Χρήστος
Καπιδάκης Σαράντος
Ασωνίτης Σπυρίδων
Γεργατσούλης Μανόλης
Νικολαΐδου Μάρα
Doerr Martin
Discipline
Social Sciences
Media and Communications
Keywords
Cultural heritage collections; Metadata standards; Metadata interoperability; Topic maps; Ontologies; Semantic integration; Context-dependent information
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
240 σ., im.
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