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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"descriptive metadata"”.
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Accelerating discovery from high performance computing applications using descriptive metadata management
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Design and Development of a Performance Support Tool for the Digital Curation of Non-Textual Learning Objects
… in a digital format, there is a need to have metadata associated with the artifacts to increase the chance for resource discovery by others. This is especially the case with non-textual artifacts. Once these artifacts have descriptive metadata associated with them, they have the potential to …
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Metadata creation and management in the preservation of digital information in selected libraries in Cape Town
Metadata describes and organizes resources in the digital environment for users to discover. Metadata plays an integral part in the digital preservation of information resources even though inadequacies exist in its creation and management. Challenges that affect creation and management of metadata …
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Using object biography metadata to create artefact interactions outside memory institutions
… these interactions, one approach is to modify metadata from a typical descriptive catalogue entry to be object biography-centric. This thesis explores this opportunity and presents the creation of novel artefact-centric interactions outside museums embodied by a proof-of-concept mobile …
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Integrating Preservation Functions Into the Web Server
… cannot be cited with confidence, and the descriptive metadata available for the resources is so minimal that it is sometimes insufficient for a browser to recognize. In short, the Web suffers from a counting problem and a representation problem. Refreshing the bits, migrating from an …
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Information Needs of Art Museum Visitors: Real and Virtual
… seeking behavior, retrieval systems and metadata in library science have a long history; such research studies in museum environments are at their early experimental stage. There are few studies concerning information seeking behavior and needs of virtual museum visitors, especially with …
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Data mining techniques for large-scale gene expression analysis
… made of the underlying assay data, the samples' descriptive metadata must first be standardized in a machine-readable format. In this thesis, we explore these issues, specifically within the context of curating and analyzing a large DNA microarray database. We address three main challenges. …