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Metadata Schema for Folktales in the Mekong River Basin
The aim of this study was to analyze the content, context, and structure of folktales from the Mekong River Basin, and to develop a metadata schema for data description and folktale storage.
Kanyarat Kwiecien +4 more
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Evaluating the metadata quality of the IPL [PDF]
AbstractMetadata quality is directly related to the quality of services provided by digital libraries. The paper presents results from evaluating the metadata quality of the IPL (www.ipl.org). Two evaluation methods were used: a preliminary automatic evaluation and a human involved evaluation using a survey.
Shanshan Ma +3 more
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Map Metadata: the Basis of the Retrieval System of Digital Collections
The article presents research on the evaluation of hidden map metadata. A hidden map is a map being part of a book that illustrates certain facts described in the book (e.g., military campaigns, political processes, migrations).
Marta Kuźma, Hans Bauer
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Background The variety of medical documentation often leads to incompatible data elements that impede data integration between institutions. A common approach to standardize and distribute metadata definitions are ISO/IEC 11179 norm-compliant metadata ...
Stefan Hegselmann +13 more
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Evaluating the privacy properties of telephone metadata [PDF]
Significance Privacy protections against government surveillance are often scoped to communications content and exclude communications metadata. In the United States, the National Security Agency operated a particularly controversial program, collecting bulk telephone metadata nationwide.
Jonathan R. Mayer +2 more
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Data integration is one of the most challenging tasks for digital collections whose data are stored across various repositories. Data integration across digital repositories has several challenges.
Marut Buranarach +5 more
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Scalable Distributed Metadata Server Based on Nonblocking Transactions [PDF]
Metadata performance scalability is critically important in high-performance computing when accessing many small files from millions of clients. This paper proposes a design of a scalable distributed metadata server, PPMDS, for parallel file systems ...
Kohei Hiraga +2 more
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Quality of Metadata in Open Data Portals
During the last decade, numerous governmental, educational or cultural institutions have launched Open Data initiatives that have facilitated the access to large volumes of datasets on the web.
Javier Nogueras-Iso +3 more
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The current rise of Open Science and Reproducibility in the Life Sciences requires the creation of rich, machine-actionable metadata in order to better share and reuse biological digital resources such as datasets, bioinformatics tools, training ...
Alban Gaignard +4 more
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Automatic evaluation of metadata quality in digital repositories [PDF]
Owing to the recent developments in automatic metadata generation and interoperability between digital repositories, the production of metadata is now vastly surpassing manual quality control capabilities. Abandoning quality control altogether is problematic, because low-quality metadata compromise the effectiveness of services that repositories ...
Xavier Ochoa 0001, Erik Duval
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