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Call for papers for the Special Topic Issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Sciences 1999:
"Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards"

Call for papers for the Special Topic Issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science, JASIS, is published in JASIS 48 (11) November 1997 on page [1082]. Title of the JASIS Special Issue is: "Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards" The deadline for submitting manuscripts for consideration for publication in this issue is April 30, 1998.

The next Special Topics Issue of the _Journal of the American Society for Information Science_ (JASIS) is scheduled to come out in 1999 on the topic of Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards. The guest editor for this special issue will be Zorana Ercegovac who is with the Department of the Library and Information Science, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the InfoEN Associates (www.lainet.com/infoen/).

As more heterogeneous objects, including text, become available electronically, people have just started to look at different metadata standards that had independently evolved to identify and describe these objects (e.g., geospatial data such as imagery archives and remotely-sensed datasets; museum and cultural information repositories). These metadata standards (e.g., TEI, FGDC, AACR2) come from different disciplines and reflect different perspectives and traditional disciplinary cultures. Only recently have we started to "mesh" these different content metadata standards and converge into superstandard schemes.

Example is the collaboration between Federal Geographic Data Committee FGDC Metadata and Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR 2nd ed.) standards. Both standards have a capability to describe cartographic materials but from different perspectives: while, for example, FGDC focuses on coordinate access points, projection, and other spatial, temporal, security, and data quality attributes, AACR2 is entering maps under the author main heading. Similar differences exist in the areas of visual and archival representation.

Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Metadata elements for the representation of digital repositories including networked resources; for example, which elements should be included in a metadata record for images and spatial datasets in general? Which data elements should be included at different levels of detail?
• Integrating multiple overlapping metadata standards (e.g., AACR2, FGDC)
• Federal metadata standards for data-intensive application areas
• Designing a superstandard scheme, or a catalog, of metadata entries
• Multiple levels of metadata for multiple user needs
• Integration of data and its metadata
• Economic implications for the integration of metadata standards for multimedia and heterogeneous digital datasets
• Application-specific metadata projects from academia, research laboratories, governmental organizations, and industry

Inquiries may be made to the guest editor at zercegov@ucla.edu.
Manuscript submissions (four copies of full articles) should be addressed to:

Zorana Ercegovac, Ph. D.
Department of Library and Information Science
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
222 GSLIS Building
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
(310)206-9361 (work)
(310)391-3923 (fax/voice)
zercegov@ucla.edu
http://www.gslis.ucla.edu/LIS/faculty/zercegov/ercegovac.html
http://www.lainet.com/infoen/

The deadline for submitting manuscripts for consideration for publication in this special issue is April 30, 1998. All manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of referees, and those accepted will be published in a special issue of JASIS. Original artwork and a single copy of the copyright release form will be required for all accepted papers (http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/).

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