Sustainable Strategies for Web Integration
Enter metadata
►Librarians have crafted metadata for decades
►The schema (read open standards)
§Dublin Core, VRA, METS, etc
§MARC record and the OPAC
►Database of bibliographic and item records
►Searchable, indexed
►No digital surrogate, only metadata
§Cataloged objects are physical
§Interconnected: convert DC->MARC; Embed DC in HTML