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A multi-layer metadata schema for digital folklore collections

Irene Lourdi

Library Computer Centre, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archive and Libraries Sciences, Ionian University, Greece, elourdi{at}lib.uoa.gr

Christos Papatheodorou

Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archive and Libraries Sciences, Ionian University, Greece

Mara Nikolaidou

Harokopio University of Athens, and Library Computer Centre, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Digital folklore collections are valuable sources for studying the cultural and oral tradition of a country. The main difficulty in managing such collections is material heterogeneity (handwritten texts, photographs, 3D objects, sound recordings etc.) that imposes different digitization, description and maintenance practices. A multi-layer metadata model for the description of a digital folklore collection is presented. The proposed meta-data policy considers a collection as a hierarchy of entities and combines different metadata schemas for the management of each entity. The metadata model integrates elements from different metadata schemas ensuring efficient information recovery from all structural levels. Furthermore, interoperability between the used metadata schemas is discussed and a Topic Maps model is presented as an approach for developing mappings.

Key Words: folklore collections • metadata policies • application profiles • topic maps

Journal of Information Science, Vol. 33, No. 2, 197-213 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0165551506070711
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