Metadata and Its Applications in the Digital Library

Approaches and Practices

Jia Liu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

212 Seiten

2006
Libraries Unlimited Inc (Verlag)
978-1-59158-306-6 (ISBN)

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Jia Liu tackles the unruly world of metadata development and implementation through a state-of-the-art overview of major theoretical issues and exemplary practices. Part one of her book elaborates on the general and latest knowledge about metadata and its implementations. Part two discusses an international array of metadata-related practices, projects and applications in the digital library.

While the concept of metadata predates the Internet, worldwide interest in its standards and practices is directly linked to the increase in electronic publishing and digital libraries. Yet questions remain, such as:

What form should these standards take?

Who gets to develop them?

How will they do so and how, in turn, will they be implemented?

Jia Liu, a teacher in the Department of Information Management, Peking University, China, is currently a visiting scholar on the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.

Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abstract in English Part 1: Metadata in General Chapter 1: Metadata Basics Chapter 2: Metadata Types Chapter 3: Metadata Encoding Standards Chapter 4: Metadata Implementation Part 2: Metadata Projects and Its Applications in the Digital Library Chapter 5: Metadata Projects Chapter 6: Metadata Applications in the Digital Library Appendix: GILS Data Elements and Corresponding USMARC Tags References Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2007
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Algorithmen
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	1-59158-306-3 / 1591583063
ISBN-13	978-1-59158-306-6 / 9781591583066
Zustand	Neuware