Dissertation Information for Seungmin Lee NAME: - Seungmin Lee
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science
SCHOOL:
- Indiana University (USA) (2010)
ADVISORS: - Elin Katherine Jacob
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Taemin Kim Park - Lokman I. Meho - Kiduk Yang
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: Building bridges: An integrated approach to metadata interoperability using concept Meta-Framework Interoperability Schema (CMF)
Abstract: Interoperability is broadly recognized as a powerful way to support the use of multiple metadata standards within a single system. In its attempts to achieve metadata interoperability, the library community developed several different approaches; but each of these has weaknesses that stem from differences across standards in the representation of metadata elements, in internal structure, and in levels of granularity. The failure to resolve these problems raises the question as to whether it is possible to achieve reliable and comprehensive metadata interoperability. To address this question, the research reported here focused on the development of an approach to metadata interoperability that is sophisticated and comprehensive enough to encompass existing standards and their applications; that represents relationships across standards clearly and unambiguously; and that consistently facilitates interoperability across standards.
To develop a comprehensive process for interoperability, an approach was developed that would integrate different standards within a single meta-framework by systematically establishing patterns of relationship across standards. The meta-framework offers an alternate approach to interoperability that uses a normalized means for representing the semantics of different standards. To implement the meta-framework, the Concept Meta-Framework Interoperability Schema (CMF) was constructed according to an ontology-based model. CMF provides a substantial structure that can connect elements from different standards on the basis of semantic, structural, and syntactical similarities.
Evaluation demonstrated that 98.7% of the components in 21 original bibliographic records created in MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC), Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), and Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP) could be accounted for in the CMF schema. Based on these results, the meta-framework can be assumed to allow metadata elements originating in one context to be used in another context with minimal loss of semantics and to provide a reliable and comprehensive means for achieving interoperability across metadata records created in MARC, MODS and CDP.
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