1st Edition

Metadata Best Practices and Guidelines Current Implementation and Future Trends

Edited By Jung-ran Park Copyright 2012
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Metadata best practices and guidelines function as an essential mechanism for metadata planning, application and management, and interoperability. There has been a rapidly growing body of digital repositories and collections; accordingly, a wide range of digital projects and initiatives have adopted various metadata standards. Because of differences in the formats and knowledge domains of the... Read more

1. Introduction  Jung-ran Park  2. Metadata Decisions for Digital Libraries: A Survey Report  Marcia Lei Zeng, Jaesun Lee, and Allene F. Hayes  3. A Metadata Best Practice for a Scientific Data Repository  Jane Greenberg, Hollie C. White, Sarah Carrier, and Ryan Scherle  4. Metadata for Special Collections in CONTENTdm: How to Improve Interoperability of Unique Fields Through OAI-PMH  Myung-Ja Han, Christine Cho, Timothy W. Cole, and Amy S. Jackson  5. Implications and Challenges of Educational Standards Metadata  Anne R. Diekema  6. Defining Best Practices in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Metadata  Rebecca L. Lubas  7. Implementing TEI Projects and Accompanying Metadata for Small Libraries: Rationale and Best Practices  Richard Wisneski and Virginia Dressler  8. Providing Metadata for Compound Digital Objects: Strategic Planning for an Institution’s First Use of METS, MODS, and MIX  Michael Dulock and Christopher Cronin  9. Documenting Local Procedures: The Development of Standard Digitization Processes Through the Dear Comrade Project  Emily Symonds and Cinda May

Biography

Jung-ran Park is currently an assistant professor at the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University. Her research areas are knowledge organization and representation and computer-mediated communication/online discourse. Dr. Park is currently Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Library Metadata published by Taylor & Francis Group.