CA The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) is a Web site created through the efforts of several groups, including the US Department of Education, The National Library of Education, and a team from Syracuse University. The goal of the project is to provide teachers with a broad range of educational materials on the World Wide Web. This study evaluates The Gateway as an online source of educational information. The purpose of this evaluation is to provide developers of The Gateway with information about aspects of the system that might need improvement, and to display lessons learned through this process to developers of similar systems. It is the fourth in a series of annual studies, and focuses on effectiveness of The Gateway from the perspectives of end users and collection holders.
CA One problem in the field of radio archives is the tendency to view anything that is not audio or video (specifically this leaves text) as metadata. However, all text is not metadata. While all text can be seen as potentially useful due to the information it represents, the creators of P/FRA recommend standardizing only the essential information needed to describe and retrieve radio archive information.
Conclusions
RQ Rules need to be drafted specifying the content of metadata fields. While the authors extol the value of ÔÇ£good metadataÔÇØ for resource discovery, proscribing the content of metadata containers is a problem here as in every other filed.
