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CS 5244: New Media for the DL
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Indexing and Metadata
nDublin Core addresses all aspects of metadata
¡Administrative, structural, use, IP and descriptive
nIndexing as one part of descriptive metadata
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nTradeoff in specificity and exhaustiveness in indexing
nControlled vocabulary
¡Objectives: distinctive terms, help bridge ASK
nClassification
¡Exhaustive, 1 to 1 mapping of possible subjects
¡Faceted indexing for faceted metadata