Information Resource Description: Creating and managing metadata

Philip Hider

doi:10.29085/9781783302253

This new edition offers a fully updated and expanded overview of the field of information organization, examining the description of information resources as both a product and process of the contemporary digital environment.Information Resource Description 2nd edition explains how the various elements and values of descriptive metadata support a set of common information retrieval functions across a wide range of environments. Through this unifying framework, the book provides an integrated commentary on the various fields and practices of information organization carried out by today�s information professionals and end-users.Key topics and updates to the first edition include:recent scholarship published in the fieldlinked open linked data initiatives such as BIBFRAMEthe new IFLA Library Reference Model and its five user taskscurrent versions of the key metadata standardscontemporary discovery tools and approaches.The book is intended for LIS students taking information organization courses at either undergraduate and postgraduate levels, information professionals wishing to specialize in the field, and existing metadata specialists who wish to update their knowledge.

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Dedication
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List of figures and tables
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Preface to the First Edition
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List of abbreviations
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1 - Definitions and scope
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2 - Information resource attributes
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3 - Tools and systems
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4 - Metadata sources
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5 - Metadata quality
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6 - Sharing metadata
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7 - Metadata standards
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8 - Vocabularies
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9 - The future of metadata
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Further reading
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List of metadata standards
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-x

List of figures and tables
pp xi-xii

Preface to the First Edition
pp xiii-xiv

Preface to the Second Edition
pp xv-xvi

List of abbreviations
pp xvii-xxii

1 - Definitions and scope
pp 1-22

2 - Information resource attributes
pp 23-42

3 - Tools and systems
pp 43-72

4 - Metadata sources
pp 73-92

5 - Metadata quality
pp 93-110

6 - Sharing metadata
pp 111-122

7 - Metadata standards
pp 123-174

8 - Vocabularies
pp 175-214

9 - The future of metadata
pp 215-238

Further reading
pp 239-242

List of metadata standards
pp 243-250

Index
pp 251-277

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