Metadata for digital collections A How-To-Do-It Manual®

More and more libraries, archives, and museums are creating online collections of digitized resources. Where can those charged with organizing these new collections turn for guidance on the actual practice of metadata design and creation? To Metadata for Digital Collections: A How-To-Do-It Manual. T...

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Main Author: Miller, Steven J. 1954- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Neal-Schuman Publishers 2011
©2011
Series:How-to-do-it manuals for libraries no. 179
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to metadata for digital collections
  • Introduction to resource description and Dublin Core
  • Resource identification and responsibility elements
  • Resource content and relationship elements
  • Controlled vocabularies for improved resource discovery
  • XML-encoded metadata
  • MODS : the Metadata Object Description Schema
  • VRA Core : the Visual Resources Association Core Categories
  • Metadata interoperability, shareability, and quality
  • Designing and documenting a metadata scheme
  • Metadata, linked data, and the Semantic Web.