Metadata for Digital Collections / Steven Jack Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Steven J., 1954- author.

Series:

How-to-do-it manuals for libraries.

How-To-Do-It Manuals Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cataloging of electronic information resources--Standards.

Cataloging of electronic information resources.

Metadata--Standards.

Metadata.

Dublin Core.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : ALA Neal-Schuman, [2022]

Summary:

"This authoritative manual introduces readers to fundamental concepts and practices in a style accessible to beginners and LIS students as well as experienced practitioners with little formal metadata training"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction to Metadata for Digital Collections

1.1. What Is Metadata?

1.2. What Is a Digital Collection?

1.3. What Does Metadata Do?

1.4. Types of Metadata

1.5. Metadata Standards

1.6. Creating a Digital Collection

1.7. Metadata for Digital Collections

1.7.1. Designing and Documenting a Metadata Application Profile

1.7.2. Creating Metadata for Digital Objects

1.7.3. Metadata Sharing, Harvesting, and Aggregating

1.8. Summary

References

2 Introduction to Resource Description

2.1. Resource Description

2.1.1. Resources

2.1.2. Metadata Descriptions and Records

2.1.3. Granularity of Description

2.1.4. Element Repeatability

2.1.5. Element Functionality

2.1.6. The Need for Research

2.2. Local versus Standard, Shareable Element Sets

2.3. Describing Digital versus Original Resources

2.3.1. The One-To-One Principle

2.3.2. Content versus Carrier

2.3.3. Problems with the One-to-One Principle in Practice

2.4. Descriptive versus Administrative Metadata

2.5. Metadata as Data for Machine Processing

2.6. Metadata Elements Commonly Needed for Digital Collection Resource Description

2.7. Summary

3 Dublin Core Metadata

3.1. Introduction to Dublin Core Metadata Elements

3.2. Simple (Unqualified) Dublin Core

3.3. Qualified Dublin Core

3.4. Creation and Use of Dublin Core Metadata

3.5. DCMI Metadata Terms

3.6. Summary

4 Resource Description: Identification and Responsibility

4.1. Basic Resource Identification Elements

4.1.1. Titles

4.1.2. Dublin Core Title

4.1.3. Identifiers

4.1.4. Dublin Core Identifier

4.1.5. Dates

4.1.6. Dublin Core Date

4.1.7. Languages

4.1.8. Dublin Core Language.

4.1.9. Resource Attributes Not Readily Accommodated in Dublin Core

4.2. Name, Responsibility, and Intellectual Property Elements

4.2.1. Names and Roles of Agents Responsible for Resources

4.2.2. Dublin Core Creator and Contributor

4.2.3. Publishers and Publication

4.2.4. Dublin Core Publisher

4.2.5. Rights, Ownership, and Restrictions on Access

4.2.6. Dublin Core Rights

4.3. Summary

5 Resource Description: Content and Relationship Elements

5.1. Resource Content and Carrier Elements

5.1.1. Content Types and Genres

5.1.2. Dublin Core Type

5.1.3. Formats and Physical Description

5.1.4. Dublin Core Format

5.2. Subject Content Elements

5.2.1. Subjects

5.2.1.1. Subject Analysis, Representation, and Retrieval

5.2.1.2. Analyzing and Identifying Subject Content

5.2.1.3. Aboutness, Ofness, Isness, and Facets

5.2.1.4. Exhaustivity: Number of Subject Terms

5.2.1.5. Specificity: Specific versus General Subject Terms

5.2.1.6. Subject Analysis and Indexing of Images

5.2.2. Dublin Core Subject

5.2.3. Dublin Core Coverage

5.2.4. Descriptions, Abstracts, and Tables of Contents

5.2.5. Dublin Core Description

5.3. Resource Relationship Elements

5.3.1. Relationships among Different Resources

5.3.2. Dublin Core Relation and Source

5.4. Summary

6 Controlled Vocabularies for Improved Resource Discovery

6.1. Improving Resource Discovery

6.2. Types of Controlled Vocabularies

6.2.1. Lists

6.2.2. Synonym Rings

6.2.3. Authority Files

6.2.4. Taxonomies and Classification Schemes

6.2.5. Thesauri

6.2.6. Subject Heading Lists

6.3. Using Established Vocabularies

6.4. Creating Your Own Vocabularies

6.5. Controlled Vocabularies as Linked Data

6.6. Summary

7 XML-Encoded Metadata

7.1. XML Metadata Basics.

7.1.1. Introduction to Metadata Encoding and XML

7.1.2. XML Syntax: Elements and Attributes

7.1.3. Well-Formed versus Valid XML

7.1.4. XML Namespaces and Metadata Modularity

7.1.5. Creating Metadata in XML

7.2. XML Metadata Record Examples

7.2.1. Dublin Core in XML

7.2.2. MODS XML

7.3. Anatomy of an XML Metadata Record

7.4. Summary

8 MODS: The Metadata Object Description Schema

8.1. Introduction and Overview

8.1.1. MODS Implementation Projects

8.1.2. MODS Documentation

8.1.3. MODS XML Structure

8.1.3.1. Container Elements and Subelements

8.1.3.2. Element Attributes

8.1.4. Flexibility in MODS Level of Detail and Granularity

8.2. MODS Elements: An Overview with Examples

8.2.1. MODS titleInfo

8.2.2. MODS name

8.2.3. MODS typeOfResource

8.2.4. MODS genre

8.2.5. MODS originInfo

8.2.6. MODS language

8.2.7. MODS physicalDescription

8.2.8. MODS abstract

8.2.9. MODS tableOfContents

8.2.10. MODS targetAudience

8.2.11. MODS note

8.2.12. MODS subject

8.2.13. MODS classification

8.2.14. MODS relatedItem

8.2.15. MODS identifier

8.2.16. MODS location

8.2.17. MODS accessCondition

8.2.18. MODS part

8.2.19. MODS extension

8.2.20. MODS recordInfo

8.3. MODS Records

8.3.1. Complete MODS Record Example

8.3.2. Creating MODS XML Records

8.3.3. Displaying and Transforming MODS XML Records

8.3.4. Qualified Dublin Core and MODS Record Comparison

8.4. Mapping from Dublin Core to MODS

8.5. Summary

9 VRA Core: The Visual Resources Association Core Categories

9.1. Introduction to Metadata for Objects of Visual Culture

9.1.1. Metadata for Museum Objects

9.1.2. Metadata Standards for Museum Objects and Works of Visual Culture

9.2. VRA Core

9.2.1. VRA 3.0 Overview

9.2.2. VRA 3.0 Record Examples.

9.2.3. VRA 4.0 Overview

9.2.4. VRA 4.0 Record Examples

9.2.5. VRA Core 4.0 and Linked Data

9.3. Summary

10 Metadata Interoperability, Shareability, and Quality

10.1. Interoperability

10.2. Short- and Long-Term Metadata Viability

10.3. Metadata Sharing, Harvesting, and Aggregating

10.4. OAI Metadata Harvesting

10.5. Metadata Mapping and Crosswalks

10.6. Metadata Conversion and Processing

10.7. Example of Metadata Harvesting, Processing, and Aggregating

10.8. Good-Quality and Shareable Metadata

10.9. Identifying and Remediating Metadata Quality Problems

10.10. Five Ways to Improve Metadata Quality and Interoperability

10.11. Summary

11 Linked Data and Ontologies

11.1. What Are Linked Data and the Semantic Web?

11.2. Linked Data and the Resource Description Framework

11.2.1. Statements, Properties, Values, Triples, and Graphs

11.2.2. URIs: Uniform Resource Identifiers

11.2.3. Literals, Strings, Things, and Datatypes

11.2.4. Statements, Records, Descriptions, and Description Sets

11.2.5. Machine-Readable Encoding Syntaxes for RDF

11.3. Linked Data in Action: The Web and Digital Collections

11.4. Ontologies: Models for Linked Data

11.4.1. Introduction to Ontologies

11.4.2. Classes

11.4.3. Properties, Domain and Range

11.5. Ontology Examples: DC, MODS, BIBFRAME, SKOS, Schema.org

11.5.1. Dublin Core

11.5.2. MODS

11.5.3. BIBFRAME

11.5.4. Controlled Vocabularies and LD Ontologies

11.5.4.1. SKOS: Simple Knowledge Organization System

11.5.4.2. Different URIs For the Same Entity

11.5.4.3. Broader-Narrower Term Hierarchies versus Ontology Class Hierarchies

11.5.5. Schema.org

11.6. Linked Data in Practice

11.7. Summary

12 Metadata Application Profile Design.

12.1. Metadata Application Profile Design and Documentation

12.1.1. Introduction

12.1.2. Analyze Context, Content, and Users, and Determine Functional Requirements

12.1.3. Select and Develop an Element Set

12.1.3.1. General/Cross-Collection Metadata Application Profile Design

12.1.3.2. Collection-Specific Metadata Application Profile Design

12.1.3.3. Factors in Choice of Metadata Element Set

12.1.4. Establish Element and Database Specifications

12.1.5. Establish Controlled Vocabularies and Encoding Schemes

12.1.6. Develop Content Guidelines

12.1.7. Document the Application Profile

12.2. Metadata Application Profile Examples

12.2.1. General Application Profile Examples

12.2.1.1. Mountain West Digital Library Dublin Core Application Profile

12.2.1.2. South Carolina Digital Library Metadata Schema and Guidelines

12.2.1.3. Dartmouth College Library MODS Documentation

12.2.2. Collection-Specific Application Profile Examples

12.2.2.1. University of Washington's Architecture Collection Metadata Documentation

12.2.2.2. University of Washington's Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection Metadata Documentation

12.2.2.3. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Transportation Around the World Collection Metadata Documentation

12.2.3. CONTENTdm Examples

12.3. Summary

Appendix: Dublin Core, MODS, and VRA Element Mappings

Glossary

Acronym Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780838938003 (ebook)

9780838938003

0838938000

OCLC:

1381096602