The Dag Hammarskjöld Library is celebrating the milestone of creating over one million bibliographic metadata units in the UN Digital Library, its online catalogue. Every year, the UN generates ...

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Since the 1960s, academic libraries have been using their own standards for the communication of metadata about resources in their catalogs. Originally designed for magnetic tape-based computers, ...

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Digital libraries are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence (AI) tools to simplify operations, improve user ...

Many libraries are eagerly digitizing their materials and making them accessible online. This enthusiasm often stems from patrons, who are excited to make use of the resources on the internet, or from ...

An MP3 file contains not only the actual song, but also categorical information—metadata—about that song: name, artist, album and so on. (It can also contain album art, as we discussed last week.) ...