TY - JOUR
TI - A multi-layer metadata schema for digital folklore collections
AU - Irene Lourdi
AU - Christos Papatheodorou
AU - Mara Nikolaidou
JO - Journal of Information Science
PY - 2007
VL - 33
TODO - 2
SP - 197--213
PB - Sage Publications
SN - 0165-5515, 1741-6485
TODO - 10.1177/0165551506070711
TODO - folklore collections; metadata policies; application profiles; topic
maps
TODO - 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 metadata 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.
ER -