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Creating metadata practices for MIT’s OpenCourseWare Project

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Title:

Creating metadata practices for MIT’s OpenCourseWare Project

Author(s):

Rebecca L. Lubas, Robert H.W. Wolfe, Maximilian Fleischman

Journal:

Library Hi Tech

Year:

2004

Volume:

22

Issue:

2

Page:

138 - 143


ISSN:

0737-8831


DOI:

10.1108/07378830410524567

Publisher:

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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Abstract:

The MIT libraries were called upon to recommend a metadata scheme for the resources contained in MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) project. The resources in OCW needed descriptive, structural, and technical metadata. The SCORM standard, which uses IEEE Learning Object Metadata for its descriptive standard, was selected for its focus on educational objects. However, it was clear that the Libraries would need to recommend how the standard would be applied and adapted to accommodate needs that were not addressed in the standard’s specifications. The newly formed MIT Libraries Metadata Unit adapted established practices from AACR2 and MARC traditions when facing situations in which there were no precedents to follow.

Keywords:

Libraries, Online cataloguing, USA


Article Type:

Research paper


Article URL:

http://miranda.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/07378830410524567

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