Browse School of Information Sciences by Author "Urban, Richard J."

  • Blending Grounded Theory and Ontology Development Methods 
    Urban, Richard J. (2009-01-20)
    The development of domain ontologies and the process of open/axial coding outlined by Strauss & Corbin's (1998) grounded theory methods bear important similarities that point towards opportunities for "cross-fertilization" ...

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  • Collection/Item Metadata Relationships 
    Renear, Allen H.; Wickett, Karen M.; Urban, Richard J.; Dubin, David; Shreeves, Sarah L. (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, 2008-09-24)
    Contemporary retrieval systems, which search across collections, usually ignore collection-level metadata. Alternative approaches, exploiting collection-level information, will require an understanding of the various kinds ...

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  • Collections Understanding and the IMLS Digital Collection Registry 
    Urban, Richard J. (2005-12-06)
    This paper combines a review of information-seeking behavior studies with qualitative interviews of humanities scholars using the IMLS Digital Collection Registry.

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  • Library influence on museum information work 
    Urban, Richard J. (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014)
    Contemporary literature on the divergence of libraries, archives, and museums over the course of the twentieth century credits the rise of distinct professional practices required to handle different physical forms. ...

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  • Modelling CDWA Lite as an OWL-DL Ontology 
    Urban, Richard J. (2009-02-09)
    The Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) is a foundational framework for describing cultural heritage resources. This poster presents a model of the CDWA Lite core categories as an OWL ontology.

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  • On Metadata: How Records Describe Resources 
    Urban, Richard J. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2011)
    Bibliographic records -- including metadata -- are often defined as data that describes or is about resources. The function of such records is to help users identify, select, and obtain the resources that meet their ...

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  • A Pilot Analysis of 1:1 Principle Violations in the CIMR Testbed 
    Urban, Richard J. (2010)

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  • Principle paradigms: revisiting the Dublin Core 1:1 Principle 
    Urban, Richard J. (2012-05-22)
    The Dublin Core 1:1 Principle asserts that "related but conceptually different entities, for example a painting and a digital image of the painting, are described by separate metadata records" (Woodley et al., 2005). While ...

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  • Return of the Trivial: Problems Formalizing Collection/Item Metadata Relationships 
    Renear, Allen H.; Wickett, Karen M.; Urban, Richard J.; Dubin, David (ACM, 2008-06-17)
    Formalizing collection-level/item-level metadata relationships encounters the problem of trivial satisfaction. We offer a solution related to current work in IR and ontology evaluation.

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  • Rule Categories for Collection/Item Metadata Relationships 
    Wickett, Karen M.; Urban, Richard J.; Renear, Allen H. (2010-10-25)
    Slides from a presentation at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

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  • A Second Life for Your Museum: 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments and Museums 
    Urban, Richard J. (Archives & Museum Informatics, 2007-03)
    The paper gives an overview of some of the museum-like activities currently being undertaken in Second Life. Current development is mainly in the hands of pioneers, often interested amateurs engaging in serious leisure to ...

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  • Second Life: Museums and Archeological Modeling 
    Urban, Richard J.; Twidale, Michael B.; Marty, Paul F. (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2007-06-06)
    This poster explores how "residents" are using the virtual world Second Life as a third place to engage in serious leisure by creating museums and archaeological sites.

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  • Sustaining Collection Value: Managing Collection/Item Metadata Relationships 
    Renear, Allen H.; Urban, Richard J.; Wickett, Karen M.; Palmer, Carole L.; Dubin, David (2008-06)
    Many aspects of managing collection/item metadata relationships are critical to sustaining collection value over time. Metadata at the collection-level not only provides context for finding, understanding, and using the ...

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  • Usability Analysis of the IMLS Digital Collections Registry 
    Twidale, Michael B.; Urban, Richard J. (2006-03-21)
    A report on the usability testing of the IMLS DCC collection registry web interface.

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