Metadata : A Cataloger's Primer

ISBN-13: 9780789028013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 303 str.

Richard P. Smiraglia

Opis

Provides catalogue librarians and students with a comprehensive instructional resource on the ongoing convergence of cataloguing and metadata. This book serves as an introduction to the concepts of metadata within bibliographic contexts, demonstrating the potential for resource description. It introduces various metadata schemes.

Spis treści

• Introducing Metadata (Richard P. Smiraglia)
  
• PART I: INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS
  
• Understanding Metadata and Metadata Schemes (Jane Greenberg)
  
• Metadata and Bibliographic Control: Soul-Mates or Two Solitudes? (Lynne C. Howarth)
  
• Metadata, Metaphor, and Metonymy (D. Grant Campbell)
  
• An Exploratory Study of Metadata Creation in a Health Care Agency (Leatrice Ferraioli)
  
• The Defining Element—A Discussion of the Creator Element Within Metadata Schemas (Jennifer Cwiok)
  
• Content Metadata—An Analysis of Etruscan Artifacts in a Museum of Archeology (Richard P. Smiraglia)
  
• PART II: HOW TO CREATE, APPLY, AND USE METADATA
  
• From Cataloging to Metadata: Dublin Core Records for the Library Catalog (Anita S. Coleman)
  
• Metadata Standards for Archival Control: An Introduction to EAD and EAC (Alexander C. Thurman)
  
• Introduction to XML (Patrick Yott)
  
• METS: The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (Linda Cantara)
  
• Planning and Implementing a Metadata-Driven Digital Repository (Michael A. Chopey)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

O autorze

Richard Smiraglia