Metadata in Practice

by American Library Association

Overview

This collection offers project planners, metadata librarians, systems and technical services librarians, and catalogers a problem-solving approach and real-world supplement for their metadata needs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838908822
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	07/01/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.64(d)

Table of Contents

	Figures	vii
	Tables	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
Part I	Project-Based Implementations
1	Building an Education Digital Library: GEM and Early Metadata Standards Adoption	1
2	Building Heritage Colorado: The Colorado Digitization Experience	17
3	Museums and Metadata: A Shifting Paradigm	37
4	The Eye of the Beholder: Challenges of Image Description and Access at Harvard	51
5	Building a Metadata-Sharing Campus: The University of Minnesota IMAGES Initiatives	70
6	Crosswalking Citation Metadata: The University of California's Experience	89
7	CanCore: Semantic Interoperability for Learning Object Metadata	104
8	The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Metadata Development and Use	117
9	Distributing and Synchronizing Heterogeneous Metadata in Geospatial Information Repositories for Access	139
10	The Internet Scout Project's Metadata Management Experience: Research, Solutions, and Knowledge	158
11	Lessons Learned from the Illinois OAI Metadata Harvesting Project	174
Part II	The Future of Metadata Development and Practice
12	Community-Based Content Control	191
13	Building an Open Language Archives Community on the DC Foundation	203
14	Mixed Content and Mixed Metadata: Information Discovery in a Messy World	223
15	The Continuum of Metadata Quality: Defining, Expressing, Exploiting	238
16	Metadata Futures: Steps toward Semantic Interoperability	257
	Contributors	272
	Index	279