Metadata in practice / Diane I. Hillmann, editor, Elaine L. Westbrooks, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hillmann, Diane I. (Diane Ileana), 1948-

Westbrooks, Elaine L.

American Library Association.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information organization.

Metadata.

Database management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 285 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : American Library Association, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of reports from the field is an opportunity for librarians to learn from the experience of others involved in technically diverse digital library archive projects. It offers project planners, metadata librarians, systems and technical services librarians, and catalogers a problem-solving approach and real-world supplement.

Contents:

Building an Education Digital Library: GEM and Early Metadata Standards Adoption / Stuart A. Sutton

Building Heritage Colorado: The Colorado Digitization Experience / Liz Bischoff and Elizabeth S. Meagher

Museums and Metadata: A Shifting Paradigm / Angela Spinazzè

Eye of the Beholder: Challenges of Image Description and Access at Harvard / Robin Wendler

Building a Metadata-Sharing Campus: The University of Minnesota IMAGES Initiatives / Charles F. Thomas

Cross-Walking Citation Metadata: The University of California's Experience / Karen Coyle

CanCore: Semantic Interoperability for Learning Object Metadata / Norm Friesen

The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Metadata Development and Use / Linda L. Hill and Greg Janěe

Distributing and Synchronizing Heterogeneous Metadata in Geospatial Information Repositories for Access / Elaine L. Westbrooks.

The Internet Scout Project's Metadata Management Experience: Research, Solutions & Knowledge / Rachael Bower, David Sleasman, and Edward Almasy

Lessons Learned from the Illinois OAI Metadata Harvesting Project / Timothy W. Cole and Sarah L. Shreeves

Community-Based Content Control / Harriette Hemmasi

Building an Open Language Archives Community on the DC Foundation / Steven Bird and Gary Simons

Mixed Content and Mixed Metadata: Information Discovery in a Messy World / Caroline R. Arms and William Y. Arms

The Continuum of METADATA Quality: Defining, Expressing, Exploiting / Thomas R. Bruce and Diane I. Hillmann

Metadata futures: steps towards semantic interoperability / Rachel Heery.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8389-9872-0

OCLC:

475925457