Metadata för språkresurser
en Application Profile inom området kulturarv
Dublin CoreMetadataDigitala bibliotekDocumentationInformationLibrary scienceArchivisticsArkiv- och bibliotekskunskapDokumentationSocial Sciences
The EU-funded project European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO) aims to integrateresources from various domains within the field of cultural heritage, and make them availableon the Internet. To accomplish this integration it is necessary to describe the various resourcesin a way that will achieve cross-domain interoperability. This description of digital resourcesis commonly referred to as metadata. The most well known and used metadata standard is theDublin Core Metadata Element Set, a general standard developed for the purpose ofdescribing all types of digital resources. Since the mid-1990's a large number of specializedstandards have emerged in different communities, for example IMDI, designed for detaileddescription of language resources.This thesis aims to examine the possibility of combining a general and a specialized metadatastandard to achieve cross-domain interoperability and at the same time provide a sufficientlydetailed description of language resources for researchers within the field of linguistics. Acombination of two (or more) metadata standards in a compound schema is called anapplication profile. The purpose of an application profile is to provide a tailor-made schemafor a specific context. The present study examines the semantic and structural problemsconcerning the creation of an application profile for language resources, which combineselements from the metadata standards Dublin Core and IMDI.