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Broadcast search Federated search EAD - Encoded Archival Description: Method for encoding archival materials in XML (EAD uses XML) ETD - Electronic Theses and Dissertations HTTP—hypertext transfer protocol IMLS - Institute of Museum & Library Services—a federal agency in the U. S. that funds digitization and other collaborative programs for museums, libraries and archives. METS—a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata about objects within a digital library, expressed using XML. METS is being developed by the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and is maintained by the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/). MODS—metadata object description schema. Developed by the Library of Congress, MODS is an XML-based schema for a bibliographic element set that may be used for a variety of purposes, and particularly for library applications. It is intended to be able to carry selected data from existing MARC 21 records as well as to enable the creation of original resource description records. It includes a subset of MARC fields and uses language-based tags rather than numeric ones, in some cases regrouping elements from the MARC 21 bibliographic format (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/). NDLTD - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations NSDL - National Science Digital Library—a grant program funded by the National Science Foundation. OpenURL--The proposed OpenURL standard is a syntax to create web-transportable packages of metadata and/or identifiers about an information object. Such packages are at the core of context-sensitive or open link technology. By standardizing this syntax, the OpenURL will enable many other innovative user-specific services. For more background, see the NISO Standards Committee AX OpenURL page (http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html), as well as the Committee’s working website, which has a very good bibliography of OpenURL readings (http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/). OAI-PMH—Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting— SOAP—simple object access protocol. SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses (http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/). TEI - Text Encoding Initiative XML--Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere (http://www.w3.org/XML/). A good basic introduction to XML: “XML in 10 Points,” by Bert Bos (http://www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points); for applications of XML to libraries, see the XML4lib electronic discussion list and its archive and XML resources (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/XML4Lib/). XSLT—eXtensible Stylesheet language
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