Metadata for Resource Description on Corporate Intranets

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Obershaw, Eric
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • Since resource discovery has become a difficult and time-consuming task, some corporations are instituting metadata initiatives to alleviate these problems. This paper reports on an exploratory study of the metadata schemas supporting corporate intranets. The study consists of two parts; an examination of the metadata elements currently in use for corporate intranets and a comparison of these elements to the schema developed by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Schemas were collected from ten such corporations and the aggregate data was examined to uncover what types of elements are likely to be important for resource description on a corporate intranet. The results found that thirteen of the fifteen metadata elements most commonly used by schemas in this study are supported by the Dublin Core. An additional 20 elements not supported by the Dublin Core were also found. These additional elements show how corporations can enhance the Dublin Core to meet the needs of their own intranet.
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  • Greenberg, Jane
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • December 10, 2010

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