OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives: Volume 17 Issue 4

Peering over the fortress walls: the metadata invasion begins

Norm Medeiros

Explores the growing variance between proponents of traditional cataloging practices for Web objects, and those who advocate non‐AACR/MARC approaches to resource description…

Graduate archival education at Western Washington University

Randall C. Jimerson

As the archival profession seeks a wider role in the field of information science, the need to prepare students for careers in a rapidly changing world requires multidisciplinary…

The CORC experience: survey of founding libraries. Part II

Ingrid Hsieh‐Yee, Michael Smith

This survey conducted in late 1999 found that Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC) founding libraries shared a strong interest in controlling Internet resources and finding…

Dynamic publishing of links to Web resources using FileMaker Pro

Robert E. Duncan

Collections of links to Web resources become difficult to maintain and use as they grow in size. Database‐driven, dynamic Web publishing solutions offer searching capabilities and…

Structuring biographical data in EAD with the Nomen DTD

Antonio M. Calvo

Biographical data, including authorized name information, adds depth, richness and retrievability to bibliographic records and archival finding aids. The use of encoded archival…