General Information

Author/Creator

Hider, Philip, 1971-

Published

Chicago, IL : ALA Editions, 2013.

Physical Description

xix, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

American Library Association.

Subjects

Subject

Metadata.

Libraries > Information technology.

Libraries > Technological innovations.

Digital preservation.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Philip Hider.

Title Variation

Creating and managing metadata

Content

Definitions and scope: Information resources ; Resource description ; Metadata ; Elements, values, format and transmission ; Managing metadata ; The contemporary information environment ; Information organization ; Overview of this book -- Information resource attributes: Describer and user contexts ; Information resource contexts ; The function of metadata ; From attributes to elements -- Tools and systems: Arrangements ; Indexes and databases ; Bibliographic databases ; Library catalogues ; Periodical databases ; Federated search systems ; Archival finding aids ; Museum registers ; Digital collections ; Search engines ; Online directories ; Bibliographies ; Citation databases -- Metadata sources: Resource creators ; Publishers ; Information professionals ; Library cataloguing ; Metadata librarianship ; Indexing and abstracting ; Archival description ; Museum documentation ; Records management ; Information architecture ; End-users ; Computers -- Metadata quality: Functionality ; Comprehensiveness ; Accuracy ; Clarity ; Consistency ; Vocabulary and authority control ; Principles of best practice ; Quality assurance ; Cost-benefit analysis -- Sharing metadata: Library catalogue records ; Metadata for search engines ; Interoperability -- Metadata standards: Web publishing ; Libraries ; Digital libraries ; Archives ; Museums ; Book publishing ; Book indexing ; Database indexing ; E-research ; Education ; Audiovisual industries ; Business ; Government ; Registries -- Vocabularies: Controlled subject vocabularies ; Subject headings ; Subject thesauri ; Subject classification schemes ; Taxonomies and ontologies ; Non-subject vocabularies ; Vocabulary mapping ; Identification systems -- The future of metadata: Three approaches ; Content-based information retrieval ; Social metadata ; Professional description ; Conclusion.

ISBN

083891201

9780838912010

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Archival, library and information sciences collection	025.3 HID		Reference	-

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