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The rapid growth of Internet resources and digital collections has been accompanied by a proliferation of metadata schemas, each of which has been designed based on the requirements of particular user communities, intended users, types of materials, subject domains, project needs, etc. Problems arise when building large digital libraries or repositories with metadata records that were prepared according to diverse schemas. This article (published in two parts) contains an analysis of the methods that have been used to achieve or improve interoperability among metadata schemas and applications, for the purposes of facilitating conversion and exchange of metadata and enabling cross-domain metadata harvesting and federated searches. From a methodological point of view, implementing interoperability may be considered at different levels of operation: schema level, record level, and repository level. Part I of the article intends to explain possible situations in which metadata schemas may be created or implemented, whether in individual projects or in integrated repositories. It also discusses approaches used at the schema level. Part II of the article will discuss metadata interoperability efforts at the record and repository levels.

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Identifier	met0020
Title	Metadata Interoperability and Standardization – A Study of Methodology Part I. Achieving Interoperability at the Schema Level / by Lois Mai Chan, Marcia Lei Zeng
Other Title	Achieving Interoperability at the Schema Level
Creator	Chan, Lois Mai
Creator	Zeng, Marcia Lei
Date	2006
File type	txt/html
Rights	Copyright © 2006 Lois Mai Chan and Marcia Lei Zeng
Category	Article
Description	The rapid growth of Internet resources and digital collections has been accompanied by a proliferation of metadata schemas, each of which has been designed based on the requirements of particular user communities, intended users, types of materials, subject domains, project needs, etc. Problems arise when building large digital libraries or repositories with metadata records that were prepared according to diverse schemas. This article (published in two parts) contains an analysis of the methods that have been used to achieve or improve interoperability among metadata schemas and applications, for the purposes of facilitating conversion and exchange of metadata and enabling cross-domain metadata harvesting and federated searches. From a methodological point of view, implementing interoperability may be considered at different levels of operation: schema level, record level, and repository level. Part I of the article intends to explain possible situations in which metadata schemas may be created or implemented, whether in individual projects or in integrated repositories. It also discusses approaches used at the schema level. Part II of the article will discuss metadata interoperability efforts at the record and repository levels.
Note	D-Lib Magazine June 2006 Volume 12 Number 6 ISSN 1082-9873
System requirements	Web browser
Mode of Access	No restriction to full text
Subject	Resource Discovery
Subject	Metadata -Standards
Subject	Interoperability
Identifier-URI	http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june06/chan/06chan.html
Remote access	Access to fulltext
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