| Description |
1 online resource (203 pages) |
| Contents |
FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Metadata Basics -- Syntax, Creation, and Storage -- Vocabularies, Classification, and Identifiers -- Approaches to Interoperability -- Metadata and the Web -- Library Cataloging -- The TEI Header -- The Dublin Core -- Archival Description and the EAD -- Metadata for Art and Architecture -- GILS and Government Information -- Metadata for Education -- ONIX International -- Metadata for Geospatial and Environmental Resources -- The Data Documentation Initiative -- Administrative Metadata -- Structural Metadata -- Rights Metadata -- GLOSSARY |
| Summary |
Priscilla Caplan, one of the nation's leading systems experts, presents the most comprehensive and clearest descriptions of the various forms of metadata, its applications, and how librarians can put it to work. Both descriptive and nondescriptive forms of metadata are defined (including the TEI Header, the Dublin Core, EAD, GILS, ONIX, and the Data Documentation Initiative) and applied to actual library functions. Illustrations show how different forms of metadata look, advantages and disadvantages, and where they're best applied in the library. Geared to librarians who need a solid foundatio |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Information organization.
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Metadata.
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Information organization
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Metadata
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780838999585 |
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0838999581 |
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