Final Report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications) Project
By: The AMeGA Project ; authors, Jane Greenberg, Kristina Spurgin, and Abe Crystal ; appendix A authors: Michelle Cronquist and Amanda Wilson
Contributors: Greenberg, Jane; Spurgin, Kristina; Crystal, Abe
Publisher: School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Cataloging of computer network resources; Web databases; Metadata
Description: Final report of the AMeGA project, whose goal was to identify and recommend functionalities for applications supporting automatic metadata generation in the library/bibliographic control community. The project was conducted in connection with Section 4.2 of the Library of Congress Bibliographic Control Action Plan: Develop specifications for a tool that will enable libraries to extract [and harvest] metadata from Web-based resources in order to create catalog records and that will detect and   report changes in resource content and bibliographic data in order to maintain those records.Communicate the specifications to the vendor community and encourage their adoption.
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