Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-474) and index.
Contents:
Introduction to metadata for digital collections -- Introduction to resource description -- Dublin Core metadata -- Resource description: identification and responsibility -- Name, responsibility, and intellectual property elements -- Resource description: content and relationship -- Controlled vocabularies for improved resource discovery -- XML metadata basics -- MODS: the Metadata Object Description Schema -- VRA Core: the Visual Resources Association Core Categories -- Metadata interoperability, shareability, and quality -- Linked data and ontologies -- Metadata application profile design.
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.
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