Metadata for Referencing and Archival Usage

Abstract

Metadata - structured resource descrip- tions - has vital role in retrieval of scientific informa- tion. Most researchers are used to on-line public access catalogues (OPACs) maintained by libraries. The cov- erage of these high quality databases is being extended to the electronic materials such as Web sites, e-books and e-journals. In order to cover all Web materials, li- braries and other institutions are creating Web indices and archives, which are dependent on metadata embed- ded in documents themselves. While OPAC databases use MARC format adopted by large majority of large public and research libraries in the world, embedded metadata relies on new format called Dublin Core. Long time preservation of electronic documents is an interesting technical, organisational and political issue. One technical problem is related to metadata: what do we need to know about the archived electronic resources in order to be able to keep the documents in theory for ever? If we do not know what has been stored into our archive, we have failed before the job even begins.

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No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 2 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.