Organizing the Web

Resources in this category:

Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web
http://www.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/CTW.htm

"Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web is a clearinghouse of World Wide Web sites that have applied or adopted standard classification schemes or controlled vocabularies to organize or provide enhanced access to Internet resources." Includes links to many English-language and a few Swedish-language sites.

Candy Schwartz: Metadata - General Resources
http://web.simmons.edu/~schwartz/meta.html

Links to a variety of resources on metadata - web resources, readings, projects, etc.

Cataloging Electronic Resources: OCLC-MARC Coding Guidelines
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/catalogin...

Tips for cataloging Internet resources using AACR2 rules. Second edition.

Dublin Core Metadata Gen
http://webposible.com/utilidades/dublincore-metadata-gen/

Fill in a form, click a button, and generate Dublin Core metadata tags in three formats: HTML, RDF files and Dublin Core microformats. Great for easily creating properly-formatted metadata for your Web page in moments.

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
http://dublincore.org/

"The Dublin Core metadata standard is a simple yet effective element set for describing a wide range of networked resources." Visit this web site to learn how to use Dublin Core metadata to describe and organize electronic resources. The site also contains information on the history and current activities of the project.

Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
http://www.loc.gov/ead/

Provides background information and official documentation of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) which is a standard used for encoding finding aids to make them available online.

Findability.org
http://findability.org/

A "perpetually evolving collection of links to people, software, organizations, and content related to findability" -- "the quality of being locatable or navigable." Dedicated to the specific topic of findability.

Organizing the Web: Resources for Librarians
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48515

This IPL pathfinder provides better ways of finding Internet resources. It may involve cataloging Internet resources in traditional or non-traditional ways, improving subject access with controlled vocabulary, or using metadata elements to facilitate search and retrieval. Both print and Internet resources are provided.

Resource Description Framework (RDF)
http://www.w3.org/RDF/

"The Resource Description Framework (RDF) integrates a variety of web-based metadata activities including sitemaps, content ratings, stream channel definitions, search engine data collection (web crawling), digital library collections, and distributed authoring, using XML as an interchange syntax." Visit this site for many links to press releases, articles, usage guides, and other resources on the RDF metadata standard.

Text Encoding Initiative
http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml

"The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is an international project to develop guidelines for the preparation and interchange of electronic texts for scholarly research, and to satisfy a broad range of uses by the language industries more generally." Visit this web site to learn about TEI, a markup language commonly used for digitizing texts and other resources. The web site includes information on the history of the project as well as how to use the markup language.