Metadata and Organizing Educational Resources on the Internet (Journal of Internet Cataloging (Paperback))

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Summary: Do The Glory of Metadata
Review: The Internet is a great and wonderful thing, but its vast potential for education remains almost untapped. It is essential that all that information out there be cataloged and organized through the use of metadata if it is really to become as useful as it can and should be. This book suggests some of the ways that imaginative people have come up with to do just that.
In a series of essays, the book examines projects that have used the Internet in a synergistic way. One essay, by James Briggs Murray, shows how the resources of a top library of African and African American studies were made available to the public for the first time through the Internet. Another, by Amy C. Smith, shows how various Internet resources on Greek sculpture were combined into a digital catalog that allows the user to pull together, for perhaps the first time since antiquity, fragments of sculpture long separated. A third article, by Richard Giordano, discusses ways of uniting totally disparate types of information in a Web-based environment, of great use for teachers, concerned with best educational practices.
These and many other essays in this book give both the particulars of metadata creation, and, more importantly, inspiration. The book will be of use to all educators, catalogers, and anyone interested in organizing Internet information.