Metadata
An excellent foundation for advanced class instruction...metadata practitioners with appropriate experience will find this book a very good source for reference, review, and for expanding their knowledge. --Library Resources and Technical Services, April 2009Authors Zeng and Qin present a solid and well-organized text...It would be a highly useful text for any librarian or information specialist working on digital projects involving metadata...This book works well as a course textbook or as a reference manual for individual topics...a worthwhile addition to a metadata collection and would be best suited for academic or special libraries and archives. --American Reference Books Annual, August 2008Easy to read...a valuable tool for both learners and teachers as well as for young professionals. --Subject Center for Information and Computer Sciences"Metadatais a fresh and comprehensive look at metadata and its contexts in the modern library world. Although designed as a textbook in a library science educational setting, it can also serve as a handy reference book for library professionals who work with metadata on a day-to-day basis or for library managers and administrators who need to understand the landscape of metadata in order to manage digital content projects or other projects involving metadata." --Journal of Archival Organization, July 2010Easy to read...a valuable tool for both learners and teachers as well as for young professionals. --Subject Center for Information and Computer Sciences