Metadata for Digital Collections: A How-to-Do-It Manual (How-To-Do-It Manual Series (for Librarians))

Reference -- Metadata interoperability, shareability, and quality -- Interoperability -- Short- and long-term metadata viability -- Metadata sharing, harvesting, and aggregating -- OAI metadata harvesting -- Metadata mapping and crosswalks -- Metadata conversion and processing -- Example of metadata harvesting, processing, and aggregating -- Good quality and shareable metadata -- Assessing metadata quality -- Five ways to improve your metadata quality and interoperability -- Summary -- References -- Designing and documenting a metadata scheme -- Metadata scheme design and documentation -- Introduction -- Analyze context, content, and users and determine functional requirements -- Select and develop an element set -- General / Cross-collection metadata scheme design -- Collection-specific metadata scheme design -- Factors in choice of metadata element set -- Establish element and database specifications -- Establish controlled vocabularies and encoding schemes -- Develop content guidelines -- Document the scheme -- Metadata design examples -- General application profile examples -- Collaborative digitization program Dublin Core metadata documentation -- OhioLINK Dublin Core metadata documentation -- Indiana memory Dublin Core metadata documentation -- DLF/Aquifer MODS metadata documentation -- Collection-specific application profile examples -- University of Washington's architecture collection metadata documentation -- University of Washington's musical instruments collection metadata documentation -- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's transportation collection metadata documentation -- CONTENTdm examples -- Summary -- References -- Metadata, linked data, and the Semantic Web -- What are linked data and the semantic web and why care about them? -- Linked open data and the resource description framework -- Statements, properties, values, and RDF triples -- URIs: uniform resource identifiers -- Literals, strings, and.

• | Author: Steven J. Miller
• | Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers
• | Publication Date: May 31, 2011
• | Number of Pages: 230 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1555707467
• | ISBN-13: 9781555707460