Diane Hillmann talks with Talis about metadata and standards
In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Diane Hillmann of Cornell University.
Diane has been associated with library metadata standards, such as Dublin Core and RDA for many years. We discuss these and other standards and the recent meeting, held at the British Library which recommended the bringing together of work on RDA and DCMI. We also go on to discuss the work of the National Science Digital Library Metadata Registry, RDF and how the Semantic Web will influence library metadata and the way it is produced and shared.
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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources:
- Resource Description and Access (RDA), Karen Coyle & Diane Hillmann – D-Lib Magazine
- NGC4LIB mailing list
- Futurelib Wiki
- The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
- National Science Digital Library Metadata Registry
This conversation was conducted by telephone on Thursday 7th June 2007, edited in Audacity.
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March 24th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
[...] Diane Hillman is to my mind a pioneer in the current era of putting into practice the recognition that cataloging is metadata is technology. She has a comprehensive and incisive understanding of library cataloging traditions, modern metadata methods, and where the two overlap (and are disjoint) that comes from a long career of service to the library community. [...]