Metadata Best Practices and Guidelines: Current Implementation and Future Trends - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415689740 ISBN 13: 9780415689748

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Metadata best practices and guidelines function as an essential mechanism for metadata planning, application and management, and interoperability. There has been a rapidly growing body of digital repositories and collections; accordingly, a wide range of digital projects and initiatives have adopted various metadata standards. Because of differences in the formats and knowledge domains of the resources, it is inevitable that these digital projects and initiatives may have different needs regarding metadata. Therefore, when a metadata standard is adopted in various institutions and organizations, it may have to be modified to reflect the community needs and characteristics of given resources. The flexibility and complex structure of natural language allow for the representation of a concept in various ways. Thus, common understanding and definitions of terms in a given metadata standard is essential for quality metadata generation, management, interoperability and resource sharing. This opens up a pressing need for a systematic examination of documentation practices, an area that up to now has been relatively unexplored. This book begins to fill the research gap through an empirical assessment of metadata guidelines and best practices.

This is a book published as a special issue of the Journal of Library Metadata.

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About the Author

Jung-ran Park is currently an assistant professor at the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University. Her research areas are knowledge organization and representation and computer-mediated communication/online discourse. Dr. Park is currently Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Library Metadata published by Taylor & Francis Group.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415689740
• ISBN 13: 9780415689748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 162
• Editor: Park Jung-ran