The Library of Congress is pleased to announce publications of the final
report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications) project.
Greenberg, J., Spurgin, K., and Crystal, A. (2005).
Final Report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation
Applications) Project. Submitted to the Library of Congress
February, 17, 2005. Available at:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/lc_amega_final_report.pdf
The final report can also be found on the Library of Congress Web site for
the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New
Millennium at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/actionplan.html, which
seeks to provide leadership to libraries and other information centers in
confronting the challenges of networked resources and the Web.
Dr. Greenberg served as Principal Investigator (PI) for the AMeGA project,
a research grant which lasted a full year. AMeGA stands for _A_utomatic
_Me_tadata _G_eneration _A_pplications project and the project had for
goal to identify and recommend functionalities for applications supporting
automatic metadata generation in the library/bibliographic control
community. The project was conducted in connection Section 4.2 of the
Library of Congress Bibliographic Control Action Plan. The Action Plan's
charge for section 4.2 is to "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."
The AMeGA research project pursed three main goals:
1) Evaluate the current automatic metadata generation applications (in the
following categories: document presentation software, tools created
specifically for metadata generation, and online library cataloging
modules for creating metadata);
2) Survey metadata professionals to get a consensus on which aspects of
metadata generation are most amenable to automation and semi-automation;
and
3) Compile a final report of recommended functionalities for automatic
metadata generation applications. The final report was reviewed and
endorsed by the Metadata Generation Task Force (MGTF).
The report acknowledges the contributions of the MGTF members for their
participation and their expert advice. In addition, since the final
report was based partially on survey data gathered from a variety of
participants that were recruited via a number of listservs, Dr. Greenberg
also expressed her gratitude for input of the survey participants, both
for the quality and depth of their responses.
To find out more about the AMeGA project, please go to AMeGA Project Web
site: http://ils.unc.edu/mrc/amega.htm
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Amanda Wilson
Metadata Librarian
The Ohio State University Libraries
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