VINE: Volume 29 Issue 3
Table of contents
Metadata:introduction
Robin YeatesGrammar and syntax combine with vocabulary to allow human beings to communicate. Metadata and protocols combine with data to allow computer systems to exchange data usefully…
“Stuff” about “Stuff” — the differing meanings of “metadata”
Matthew J. DoveyMetadata is a complex subject, and many of its complexities are extremely subtle. To further complicate matters, “metadata” has become an overloaded term, and is often used in…
How to keep the practice of librarianship relevant in the age of the Internet
James L. WeinheimerThis article considers what contribution traditional library practices — identification, selection, organisation and retrieval — can make to managing networked information, and…
The eLib Collection Description Scheme
Verity BrackThe eLib ‘clump’ projects are utilising the Z39.50 bibliographic retrieval protocol to build gateways to library OPACs in the UK, creating virtual union catalogues of university…
Our voyage into the future
Heather KnightsThis article describes how and why University of Hertfordshire chose and implemented Endeavour's Voyager Library Management System.