Metadata in Practice

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Traditional librarians are often intimidated by the new world of metadata, most especially those without a specialized background in cataloging. Colleagues in general and special libraries who have become adept with it explain some of the more widely used methods for project-based implementations, and ponder the future of metadata development and practice. Annotation ?2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Overview

Traditional librarians are often intimidated by the new world of metadata, most especially those without a specialized background in cataloging. Colleagues in general and special libraries who have become adept with it explain some of the more widely used methods for project-based implementations, and ponder the future of metadata development and practice. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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  • ISBN-13: 9780838908822
  • Publisher: ALA Editions
  • Publication date: 7/28/2004
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 975547
  • Product dimensions: 6.14 (w) x 9.21 (h) x 0.64 (d)

Table of Contents

Pt. 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 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 Cross-walking 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 119
10 The internet scout project's metadata management experience : research, solutions and knowledge 158
11 Lessons lLearned from the Illinois OAI Metadata Harvesting project 174
Pt. 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 towards semantic interoperability 257
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