Information Resource Description: Creating and managing metadata (Foundations of the Information Sciences) - Softcover

Hider, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783302232 ISBN 13: 9781783302239

Publisher: Facet Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

This new edition offers a fully updated and expanded overview of the field of information organization, examining the description of information resources as both a product and process of the contemporary digital environment.
Information Resource Description 2nd edition explains how the various elements and values of descriptive metadata support a set of common information retrieval functions across a wide range of environments.Through this unifying framework, the book provides an integrated commentary of the various fields and practices of information organization carried out by today's information professionals and end-users.

Key topics and updates to the first edition include:

• discussion of big data vs the traditional database model
• introduces and applies the FRBR-LRM user tasks
• expanded coverage of scholarly repositories and questions around Open Access
• new section on the history of information organization
• expanded discussion of the functions, economics and management of metadata
• a new section on mobile access

This book will be useful reading for LIS students taking information organization courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, information professionals wishing to specialise in this field, and existing metadata specialists who wish to update their knowledge.

About this title

About the Author

Philip Hider is Head of the School of Information Studies and Professor of Library and Information Management at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He has worked, taught and researched in the field of information organization in the UK, Singapore and Australia. He holds a PhD from City University, London and was made a Fellow of CILIP in 2004.

Edition details

• Publisher: Facet Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783302232
• ISBN 13: 9781783302239
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288