Metadata for digital collections
Subtitle: a how-to-do-it manual
By: Steven J. Miller
Series: How-to-do-it manuals -- no. 179; How-to-do-it manuals for libraries -- no. 179.
Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781555707460
Subjects: Standards; Dublin Core; Cataloging of electronic information resources; Metadata
Description: Reference -- Metadata interoperability, shareability, and quality -- Interoperability -- Short- and long-term metadata viability -- Metadata sharing, harvesting, and aggregating -- OAI metadata harvesting -- Metadata mapping and crosswalks -- Metadata conversion and processing -- Example of metadata harvesting, processing, and aggregating -- Good quality and shareable metadata -- Assessing metadata quality -- Five ways to improve your metadata quality and interoperability -- Summary -- References -- Designing and documenting a metadata scheme -- Metadata scheme design and documentation -- Introduction -- Analyze context, content, and users and determine functional requirements -- Select and develop an element set -- General / Cross-collection metadata scheme design -- Collection-specific metadata scheme design -- Factors in choice of metadata element set -- Establish element and database specifications -- Establish controlled vocabularies and encoding schemes --^

Develop content guidelines -- Document the scheme -- Metadata design examples -- General application profile examples -- Collaborative digitization program Dublin Core metadata documentation -- OhioLINK Dublin Core metadata documentation -- Indiana memory Dublin Core metadata documentation -- DLF/Aquifer MODS metadata documentation -- Collection-specific application profile examples -- University of Washington's architecture collection metadata documentation -- University of Washington's musical instruments collection metadata documentation -- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's transportation collection metadata documentation -- CONTENTdm examples -- Summary -- References -- Metadata, linked data, and the Semantic Web -- What are linked data and the semantic web and why care about them? -- Linked open data and the resource description framework -- Statements, properties, values, and RDF triples -- URIs: uniform resource identifiers -- Literals, strings, and things --^

The power of linking and querying in the linked data cloud -- RDF/XML -- Linked data and digital collections -- Dublin Core : from a core metadata element set for the web to a core vocabulary for linked data -- The DCMI abstract model (DCAM) -- Dublin Core application profiles -- Metadata registries -- What does all of this have to do with me? -- Summary -- References.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to metadata for digital collections; title: Introduction to resource description and Dublin Core; title: Resource identification and responsibility elements; title: Resource content and relationship elements; title: Controlled vocabularies for improved resource discovery; title: XML-encoded metadata; title: MODS : the Metadata Object Description Schema; title: VRA Core : the Visual Resources Association Core Categories; title: Metadata interoperability, shareability, and quality; title: Designing and documenting a metadata scheme; title: Metadata, linked data, and the Semantic Web.