• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.175-197
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• 2012

The art museums in South Korea are mostly small-scaled institutions with small amount of art works. Thus, internationally accepted metadata standards such as CDWA and VRA Core may not be efficient to manage their collections. Because of these distinct local characteristics, there is a need to create a set of metadata elements that can be used for the art museum community in the country. This research aims to propose a set of metadata elements customized to fit into the context of small-scaled art museums in South Korea. The construction of the element set was not from scratch but on the basis of existing standards such as CDWA, VRA Core, and Dublin Core. By identifying core elements that are indispensable in describing art works and collecting opinions of experts in art museums, the proposed set of metadata elements is expected to support the operation and management of art works and satisfy the localized needs of the art museum community.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.114-133
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• 2003

Recently, the organizations related to cultural contents are gradually expanding access to cultural contents for general public through the distributed network. However, since cultural contents have different characteristics than general contents, the objects, the of cultural contents seldom contain the words generally used for organization and search of information. If the cultural contents system is created without any consideration of such differences. We cannot effectively identify and search resources. Moreover, because the names, expressions and meanings are different between metadata elements of various cultural contents, it is very difficult to interconnect or share information between different systems. In order to solve these problems, proper organization ad management of metadata is vital. In this studym we have comparatively analyzed the data elements of each format based on Dublin Core, EAD, VRA, CDWA, CIMI, and Object ID, the metadata formats approached from various aspects in the cultural contents area. Through this study, we tried to provide the basic materials for integration of cultural contents by securing interoperability of different metadata formats.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.365-387
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• 2005

This paper provides a state-of-the-art on multimedia metadata. After a brief introduction to multimedia metadata, the paper described and analyzed the main metadata initiatives. The results show that these initiatives described the bibliographic elements rather than metadata for contents representation. On the other hand, MPEG-7 covers a rich and detail aspects for representing the complete and consistent multimedia content.