CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

  • About CNI
    • Membership
    • CNI Collaborations
    • Staff
    • Steering Committee
    • CNI Awards
    • History
    • CNI News
  • Program Plan
    • Current Program Plan
    • Program Plan Archive
  • Topics
  • Events & Projects
    • Membership Meetings
    • Workshops & Projects
    • Other Events
    • Event Calendar
  • Resources
    • Publications by CNI Staff
    • Program Plan
    • Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series
    • Videos & Podcasts
    • Follow CNI
    • Historical Resources
  • Contact Us

The Challenge of Building Complex Objects from Digital Repositories

Home / Project Briefing Pages / CNI Spring 2003 Project Briefings / The Challenge of Building Complex Objects from Digital Repositories

April 9, 2003

Mark Korhbluh
Director of MATRIX
Michigan State University

Dean Rehberger
Associate Director of MATRIX
Michigan State University

Michael Fegan
Senior Project Manager of MATRIX
Michigan State University

The recent emergence of online digital archives has brought educators a major step closer to bringing original, reusable digital objects into undergraduate classrooms. Yet having to search multiple archives through mind-numbing search-and-browse routines can make it difficult for educators to use the repositories successfully in their curriculum. The Spoken Word Project, a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), proposes to create complex digital objects by reducing the search for relevance, expanding the metadata with user-specific annotation, and tying the libraries’ content directly to course materials. The key to creating these resources will be to build distributed networks of users and repositories.

Cost containment often severely limits the amount of descriptive metadata that can be catalogued. Students and instructors will create topical annotated bibliographies or lists of media clips (or segments of media clips) and “publish” these for class, work group, or more general use. Allowing teachers and students to annotate and segment media as well as build their own galleries greatly enhances the educational value of digital objects by augmenting the minimal descriptive metadata and facilitating the building of complex digital objects tailored to the needs of specific education standards and curricula. The project uses a METS XML schema that provides an encoding format for administrative, descriptive, and structural metadata that is fully compliant with OAIS, and Cocoon applications to facilitate ingestion and delivery.

Web Link:
http://www.historicalvoices.org/spokenword

Handout:
The Challenge of Building Complex Objects from Digital Repositories (MS Word)

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)

Filed Under: CNI Spring 2003 Project Briefings
Tagged With: CNI2003spring, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Last updated:  Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

 

Contact Us

21 Dupont Circle
Suite 800
Washington, DC, 20036
202.296.5098

Contact us
Copyright © 2023 CNI

  • Copyright Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Site map

Keeping up with CNI

CNI-ANNOUNCE is a low-volume electronic forum used for information about the activities and programs of CNI, and events and documents of interest to the CNI community.
Sign up

Follow CNI

  • View cni.org’s profile on Facebook
  • View cni_org’s profile on Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
  • Vimeo

A joint project