Metadata for Digital Resources. Implementation, Systems Design and Interoperability

✍ Scribed by Muriel Foulonneau and Jenn Riley (Auth.)

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 197
• Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book assists information professionals in improving the usability of digital objects by adequately documenting them and using tools for metadata management. It provides practical advice for libraries, archives, and museums dealing with digital collections in a wide variety of formats and from a wider variety of sources. This book is forward-thinking in its approach to using metadata to drive digital library systems, and will be a valuable resource for those creating and managing digital resources as technologies for using those resources grow and change.

• Provides practical guidance on the key choices that information professionals in libraries, archives, and museums must make when defining and implementing a metadata strategy
• Provides insight on the new area of metadata librarianship while positions are opening in many organizations and many professionals worldwide are charged with managing and sharing metadata
• Focuses on metadata usability and the careful definition of what a digital library system must do in order to define a metadata strategy

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of figures, table and boxes, Pages ix-xi
Acknowledgements, Page xiii
About the authors, Pages xv-xvi
1 - What is metadata?, Pages 3-10
2 - Choosing metadata standards for a digital library project, Pages 13-28
3 - Creating metadata usage guidelines, Pages 29-42
4 - Creating metadata, Pages 43-60
5 - Practical implementation of a metadata strategy, Pages 61-71
6 - Functions performed by a digital library system, Pages 75-87
7 - Metadata that drives discovery functionality, Pages 89-113
8 - Defining interoperability, Pages 117-126
9 - Interoperability and resource discovery, Pages 127-138
10 - Technical interoperability, Pages 139-167
11 - Content interoperability: shareable metadata, Pages 169-183
12 - The future of metadata, Pages 187-197
Index, Pages 199-203