Construction Method of Collaborative Metadata Development Environment for Subject Gateways

本研究的目的是寻找主题网关元数据与元数据数据库协同开发环境的构建方法。我们研究了协同描述元数据和开发元数据数据库的基本问题，包括有效获取资源信息的方法，在网络上的主题网关之间共享和交换元数据的方法，以及支持协同描述元数据的软件工具的开发。我们调查了公共图书馆在使用互联网的主题门户和信息资源访问支持方面的活动。我们还与国际合作者交换了有关资源描述的信息。基于这些调查，我们开发了一个网站，提供有关都柏林中心的信息。通过本次研究，我们与公共图书馆就主题网关和元数据的相关问题进行了交流。通过这些研究活动，我们发现了今后研究的一些重要问题，包括参考服务记录的利用和地方信息的收集和发布。通过这项研究，我们在国际会议和期刊上发表了多篇论文。例如，我们于2002年7月在北京的一个国际会议上发表了一篇关于多语种学科网关“互联网公共图书馆-亚洲”及其相关软件工具的论文。我们还在韩国、印度和欧洲举行的会议上报告了我们的活动。

The goal of this study is to find construction methodology of collaborative development environment of metadata and metadata databases for subject gateways. We have investigated the fundamental issues to collaboratively describe metadata and develop metadata databases, which includes a methodology to effectively obtain information about resources, a methodology to share and exchange metadata between subject gateways on the network, and a development of software tools to support metadata description collaboratively.We investigated activities at public libraries on subject gateways and information resource access support using the Internet. We also exchanged information about resource description with international collaborators. Based on these investigations, we developed a Web site which provides information about Dublin Core. We exchanged ideas with public libraries on issues related to subject gateways and metadata through this research. Through these research activities, we have found some important issues for our future research which include utilization of reference service records and collection and publishing of local information.We have published several papers at international conferences and journals through this research. For example, we published a paper on a multilingual subject gateway named Internet Public Library - Asia and its related software tools at an international conference in Beijing in July 2002. We also reported our activities at a conference in Korea, India and Europe.