Information Technology

Introduction to Metadata

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Like metadata itself, the realm of online resources is constantly and rapidly evolving. Much has changed in the digital information landscape since the first print edition of this book was published in 1998 and the revised online version appeared in 2000. The time is right for an updated edition of this text, intended to give a general introduction to metadata and to explain some of the key tools, concepts, and issues associated with using metadata to build authoritative, reliable, and useful digital resources. Metadata creation is—or should often be—a collaborative effort, as is this book. For this edition, the three contributors to the 2000 version wrote updated chapters, and I was fortunate to find a new contributor to address the crucial issue of rights metadata. In the first chapter, Anne Gilliland provides an overview of metadata—its types, roles, and characteristics—as well as facts about metadata that belie several common misconceptions. She also addresses current trends in metadata, especially that of metadata created by users rather than trained information professionals. Activities such as social tagging, social bookmarking, and the resulting forms of user-created metadata such as “folksonomies” are playing an increasingly important role in the realm of digital information.

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: ., 2008

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1-89

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English

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978-0-89236-896-9

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Second Edition

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Introduction to Metadata

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