Metadata for Digital Resources: Implementation, Systems Design and Interoperability

by Muriel Foulonneau, Jenn Riley

This book assists information professionals in improving the usability of digital objects by adequately documenting them and using tools for metadata management. It provides practical advice for libraries, archives, and museums dealing with digital collections in a wide variety of formats and from a wider variety of sources. This book is forward-thinking in its approach to using metadata to drive digital library systems, and will be a valuable resource for those creating and managing digital resources as technologies for using those resources grow and change.

Genres: School

220 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Jenny]

From p. 15:
"This can create a vicious circle where an existing system dictates the choice of metadata standards for a new project, a body of records is created in that format, and any move to a new system and new (possibly more robust) formats then becomes more difficult due to problems with migration of the legacy data."
A vicious circle! The horror!

Overall, a useful but extremely dense text.