innholdskatalogen

Innholdskatalogen is a term used in Norwegian-language contexts to describe a catalog or inventory system that records and describes content resources. It may be used by libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, public agencies, and digital platforms to organize both physical and digital materials.

The primary purpose of an innholdskatalog is to support discovery, management, and reuse of content. It provides a centralized or interoperable view of resources, helps manage rights and provenance, tracks holdings and availability, and enables analytics about usage and collection development.

Entries in an innholdskatalog typically include metadata fields such as title, creator, publication date, language, format, subject, abstract or description, keywords, rights, location, and persistent identifiers (for example ISBN, ISSN, DOI, or URL). Administrative data, cataloging source, and information about related works or versions are commonly captured to support navigation and relationships between resources.

Metadata standards and interoperability are central to effective innholdskataloging. Catalogs often rely on standards such as Dublin Core, MARC, MODS, or ISO schemas, and employ controlled vocabularies or thesauri. They may expose data via APIs and use protocols like OAI-PMH or REST to enable harvesting and integration with other systems.

Implementation can be centralized within a single institution or distributed across repositories. An innholdskatalog may be part of a broader content management system or digital asset management solution, contributing to improved searchability, rights management, reuse, and reporting across an organization’s holdings. See also: content management system, digital asset management, metadata, cataloging.