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Metadata for Digital Resources: Implementation, systems design and interoperability

Muriel Foulonneau and Jenn Riley, Indiana University, USA

Chandos Information Professional Series

 - provides practical guidance on the key choices that information professionals in libraries, archives, and museums must make when defining and implementing a metadata strategy
 - provides insight on the new area of metadata librarianship while positions are opening in many organizations and many professionals worldwide are charged with managing and sharing metadata
 - focuses on metadata usability and the careful definition of what a digital library system must do in order to define a metadata strategy
 - explains key concepts of interoperability of digital library systems to information professionals
 - written by professionals who have concrete experience with metadata creation, sharing, reprocessing and aggregation in multiple sectors, particularly libraries, archives and museums

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.

Readership: Librarians and information professionals planning or implementing digital projects in cultural heritage institutions. Students in library and information science will gain an introduction to the complex and interrelated challenges to creating high-quality, interoperable digital resources.

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About the authors

Muriel Foulonneau is project coordinator at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the CIC-OAI metadata harvesting project. She has worked with practitioners and researchers in Europe and the United States to help implementing digital library applications. She has served as an evaluator for the Information Science and Technology R&D program of the European Commission. Jenn Riley is the Metadata Librarian for the Indiana University Digital Library Program, where she is responsible for planning metadata strategy for digital library projects. Jenn has been a leader in the development of a number of ground-breaking digital collections using metadata in novel ways to improve access to digital libraries.Jenn Riley and Muriel Foulonneau were both involved in the definition of best practices for shareable metadata for the Digital Library Federation. They have authored numerous practical guides and research articles on interoperability of digital content.

Titles which may also be of interest:
Metadata Application in Digital Repositories and Libraries
Creating Digital Collections
Evaluation of Digital Libraries

Contents

PART 1 INTRODUCTION
PART 2 IMPLEMENTATION OF METADATA CREATION ACTIVITIES
PART 3 SYSTEMS DESIGN
PART 4 METADATA INTEROPERABILITY
PART 5 CONCLUSION

PART 1 INTRODUCTION

What is metadata?
 - What is metadata?
 - The increasing importance of metadata
 - Metadata creators
 - Metadata in digital library applications
 - Location of metadata
 - Thinking widely about metadata
 - Organisation of this book
 - Notes

PART 2 IMPLEMENTATION OF METADATA CREATION ACTIVITIES

Choosing metadata standards for a digital library project
 - Metadata for a purpose
 - Factors to consider
 - Functions of metadata standards
 - Using multiple standards
 - Notes

Creating metadata usage guidelines
 - Continuing to plan
 - Topics to cover in metadata usage guidelines
 - Writing, testing, and refining usage guidelines
 - Notes

Creating metadata
 - The metadata creation process
 - Designing a metadata creation workflow
 - User interfaces for metadata creation
 - Creating metadata directly in XML
 - Benefits of learning XML technologies
 - Quality control for metadata creation
 - Notes

Practical implementation of a metadata strategy
 - Staffing
 - What it means to be a metadata specialist
 - Integrating metadata work into a larger infrastructure
 - Financial implications
 - Notes

PART 3 SYSTEMS DESIGN

Functions performed by a digital library system
 - The user at the centre of the system design
 - Digital library system functions
 - Metadata for a purpose
 - Notes

Metadata that drives discovery functionality
 - The role of user studies
 - Analysing metadata for planning systems
 - Searching
 - Browsing
 - Advanced discovery functionality
 - Results display
 - Notes

PART 4 METADATA INTEROPERABILITY

Defining interoperability
 - Why sharing?
 - Collections and services
 - Facets of interoperability
 - The challenge of making collections usable by multiple systems
 - Balancing interoperability with local needs
 - Notes

Interoperability and resource discovery
 - Resource discovery
 - Resource discovery in other connected systems
 - Generalist search engines
 - Portals and registries
 - Automatic discovery mechanisms
 - Notes

Technical interoperability
 - Centralised and decentralised search indexes
 - Data aggregation
 - Identifying and locating resources
 - Transforming metadata records
 - Notes

Content interoperability: shareable metadata
 - Some models for aggregating and using metadata from diverse sources
 - The current state of aggregations
 - Creating shareable metadata
 - Notes

PART 5 CONCLUSION

The future of metadata
 - Automated metadata generation
 - Web 2.0 ideas: participation and mashups
 - Defining a strategy for metadata management
 - Evolving institutional missions
 - Notes