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Metadata for Digital Resources: Implementation, Systems Design and Interoperability
Metadata for Digital Resources: Implementation, Systems Design and Interoperability
Metadata for Digital Resources: Implementation, Systems Design and Interoperability
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Metadata for Digital Resources: Implementation, Systems Design and Interoperability

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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.
  • 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
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 23, 2014
ISBN9781780631257
Metadata for Digital Resources: Implementation, Systems Design and Interoperability
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Muriel Foulonneau

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.

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