Resource description in a heterogeneous system environment
Juha Hakala · Library Collections Acquisitions and Technical Services · 2004
The author describes the challenges libraries face in implementing digital object management systems (DOMS) and information retrieval portals alongside the traditional integrated library systems (ILS). In particular, resource description policies, rules, and formats will be affected by the new applications of these systems. Multiple metadata formats will coexist and will be based on diverse—or nonexistent—rules. Achieving sufficient semantic interoperability between these applications is a demanding task. In the future, just as we are now sharing bibliographic information, libraries will also want to share the new kinds of metadata used in portals as well as the mappings that make one type of metadata interoperable with another.