Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Metadata Best Practices and Guidelines : Current Implementation and Future Trends, EPUB eBook

Metadata Best Practices and Guidelines : Current Implementation and Future Trends EPUB

Edited by Jung-ran (Drexel University, USA) Park

EPUB

Please note: eBooks can only be purchased with a UK issued credit card and all our eBooks (ePub and PDF) are DRM protected.

Description

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 resources, it is inevitable that these digital projects and initiatives may have different needs regarding metadata.

Therefore, when a metadata standard is adopted in various institutions and organizations, it may have to be modified to reflect the community needs and characteristics of given resources.

The flexibility and complex structure of natural language allow for the representation of a concept in various ways.

Thus, common understanding and definitions of terms in a given metadata standard is essential for quality metadata generation, management, interoperability and resource sharing.

This opens up a pressing need for a systematic examination of documentation practices, an area that up to now has been relatively unexplored.

This book begins to fill the research gap through an empirical assessment of metadata guidelines and best practices. This is a book published as a special issue of the Journal of Library Metadata.

Information

Information