Service Tasmania Online - Papers and presentations
The following list provides access to specific and general information about ServiceTasmania Online, the information architecture behind this web site, etc. Most of the resources provided here are powerpoint presentations or word documents.
Information architecture, design and metadata issues (PDF ) Paper presented at Communications Research Conference, 2000. Policy and design issues affecting the development of an Information Architecture for a Government Resource Discovery Service.
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Current Dublin Core Metadata for Retrieval (PDF ) Paper presented at the VALA Conference, 2000. Presents the results of a study into the effectiveness of Dublin Core metadata for retrieval.
The embedded metadata from twenty Australian government and educational organisations was analysed in terms of its accuracy and ability to enhance discovery.
Cataloguers may yet inherit the earth (PDF ) Paper presented at the Information Online Conference, 2001. Discusses the need for quality metadata, and describes Service Tasmania Online
information architecture and its reliance on a metadata repository with high quality metadata.
Understanding metadata (PDF ) 2000. A discussion paper that argues that metadata schema development is not complete until
there are defined data standards, data creation rules, and data creation business processes.