Document Object Identifiers and Other Item Identification and Retrieval Issues:
A Brief Bibliography*

Ahronheim, Judith R.  Descriptive Metadata: Emerging Standards. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, September 1998. pp. 395-402.

American Library Association.  Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access  (CC:DA)  [on-line]
Available:  http://www.ala.org/alcts/organization/ccs/ccda/ccda.html

ALCTS Preservation and Reproduction Section, Intellectual Access Committee.  Defining URL/URN Subfields in Fields other than Field 856 in the MARC Bibliographic/Holdings Formats, MARC/MARBI Discussion Paper 112.  [on-line] December 11, 1998.
Available: http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/dp/dp112.html

ALCTS Taskforce on Meta Access Web Site.
Available: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/alcts/

Bide, Mark. In Search of the Unicorn: the DOI from a User Perspective [on-line].
Available: http://www.bic.org.uk/unicorn2.pdf

Caplan, Priscilla. "You call it Corn, We Call it Syntax-Independent Metadata for Document-Like Objects" [On-line]. The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 6, no.4, (1995).
Available: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v6/n4/capl6n4.html

Dempsey, L., R. Russell and R. Heery, 1997. "In At the Shallow End: Metadata and Cross-domain Resource Discovery," [on-line]
Available:  http://ahds.ac.uk/public/metadata/disc_07.html [No longer available 7/9/02]

EDItEUR: Useful related WWW sites [on-line]
Book Industry Communication The UK Book and Serials Sector EDI Group.
The Book Industry Study Group for information on BISAC (US Book Industry
Systems Advisory Committee) and SISAC (Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee).
Dawson's EDI pages.
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) the home page of the AAP identifier.
EAN International the international numbering agency.
EARL project to connect public libraries to Internet.
EDI for the Book World an introduction to EDI and its benefits, with case studies.
EDIFACT in Libraries Forum (ELF) a US based site with an excellent EDI bibliography.
Electronic Commerce Resource Guide, from Harbinger.
ICEDIS, the International Committee for EDI in Serials.
IFLA International Federation of Library Associations.
Imprimatur EC funded copyright management project led by ALCS.
Information Market Europe service from the European Commission.
ISO International Standards Organisation.
ISSN the International Standard Serial N¡mber Centre.
SICI (revised draft) revised Serial Item and Contribution Identifier.
All available: http://www.editeur.org/

Green, Brian and Mark Bide.  Unique Identifiers: a Brief Introduction. [on-line], Book Industry Communication and EDItEUR.
Available:  http://www.bic.org.uk/uniquid.html

Heery, Rachel. Review of Metadata Formats [On-line].  Program, Vol. 30, No.4, October 1996, pp. 345-373.
Pre-publication draft available: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/review.html

Lange, Holly R. and B. Jean Winkler. Taming the Internet: Metadata, a Work
in Progress. Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 21, c1997. pp 47-72.

Lehman, Lisa M. An Overview of Standards for Electronic Text Development
and Indexing [On-line].
Available:  http://somunix.uafsom.alaska.edu/~john/papers/budapest.html [No longer available 7/5/02]

Miller, Paul. Metadata for the masses [On-line]. Ariadne: the Web Version,
Issue 5 (September 1996).
Available:  http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue5/metadata-masses/

Repeatability of Subfield $u (URL) in Field 856 of the MARC formats.
MARC/MARBI Proposal no. 99-06.  [on-line].
Available: http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/1999/99-06.html

Resource Description Framework (RDF).  (W3C Metadata Activity)
Available: http://www.w3.org/RDF/

Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification.  W3C
[World Wide Web Consortium] Proposed Recommendation 05 January 1999.
Available:  http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/PR-rdf-syntax-19990105/

School of Information Management & Systems, University of California at
Berkeley, 1998. "Search  Support for Unfamiliar Metadata Vocabularies,"
[on-line]
Available:  http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/metadata/index.html

Summers, Ed. Show me the Metadata! [on-line].
Available: http://libstaff.lib.odu.edu/~esummers/meta/meta.html [No longer available 7/5/02]

Thomas, Charles F. and Linda S. Griffin.  Who Will Create the Metadata on
the Internet?  [on-line] Firstmonday Vol. 3 No. 12- December 7th. 1998.
Available:  http://131.193.153.231/issues/issue3_12/thomas/index.html [No longer available 7/5/02]

Weibel, Stuart. Metadata: the Foundations of Resource Description.
[On-line], D-Lib Magazine, July 1995.
Available: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/July95/07weibel.html

Xu, Amanda. Metadata Conversion and the Library OPAC [on-line].
Available: http://web.mit.edu/waynej/www/xu.htm [No longer available 7/5/02]

* Bibliography by Elizabeth B. Richmond, Assistant Professor, McIntyre
Library, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004;
richmoeb@uwec.edu; January 1999.

Some sources taken from the AUTOCAT@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU,  Metadata
Mini-Bibliography, compiled from listserv members by Ann Sanford, Cataloging Librarian, Nevada State Library and Archives, asanford@lahontan.clan.lib.nv.

Presented at: Cataloging Government Internet Resources and the Implementation of PURL Technology: A Q&A Session with GPO, ALA Midwinter Conference, January 31, 1999, Sponsored by the GODORT Cataloging Committee and Federal Documents Task Force.

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