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In this case study we will explore the index as a gateway between a resource and the World Wide Web. We will start off by looking at the metadata indexing of a simple resource and then look at how that resource may be represented in a subject gateway.
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Introduction - Metadata | Introduction - Subject Gateways | Metadata Indexing Exercise | Bright Sparcs | Issues
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| Metadata Indexing Exercise |
- In this exercise we will create a Dublin Core Metadata record for a simple resource
- Pick an article from Eye on the Past.
- Save it to your PC.
- Open a text editor, e.g. WordPad, NoteTab and open the saved file.
- Open the Dublin Core Metadata Template.
- View the source and cut and paste as instructed into your file.
- Add the metadata content.
- Now think about how you would represent that resource in a subject gateway to the History of Science in Australia.
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| Bright Sparcs |
- Bright Sparcs - A register of over 3,000 people involved in the development of science, technology and medicine in Australia, including references to their archival materials and bibliographic resources.
- Comment on Bright Sparcs as an index - How does it satisfy the criteria of our indexing evaluation checklist? What other criteria does it meet? What is it lacking?
- How would you put your resource from the metadata indexing exercise into Bright Sparcs?
- Software to create a subject gateway - Online Heritage Resource Manager
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| Issues |
- Index as a gateway - power of linking indexing terms into existing infrastructure. [ See: Macfarlane Burnet ]
- 'Authority' indexing terms - defining entities, explicit context so can act as gateway.
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