Metadata in Practice

By: Diane I. Hillmann (Editor), Elaine L. Westbrooks (Editor)

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In the "Wild West" of digital library projects, pioneering information specialists have uncovered successful solutions, learned what to avoid, and how to proceed amid constant change. As administrator of "AskDCMI," Diane Hillmann has fielded hundreds of questions from implementers. This new collection of reports from the field, co-edited by Hillmann, is an opportunity for librarians to learn from the experience of others involved in technically diverse digital library archive projects. Part One illustrates projects serving teachers, universities, Canadian educators, statewide collaborations, and geographical information, while Part Two addresses future trends. Considering these examples, with their unvarnished "lessons learned," librarians will derive answers to such technical questions as: What are the major standards relevant to digital libraries? How do these elements relate to one another and to traditional library practices? How do planners integrate cutting edge metadata issues into project planning? What does the future hold for harvesting, re-use, and re-purposing of information? Sharing detailed results in candid reports, the contributors provide valuable information not r

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"The most important question we have asked our contributors to answer is: 'What would you have done differently, knowing what you know now?' Their answers provide much food for thought." - Diane I. Hillmann and Elaine L. Westbrooks"

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Figures	p. vii
Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Project-Based Implementations
Building an Education Digital Library: GEM and Early Metadata Standards Adoption	p. 1
Building Heritage Colorado: The Colorado Digitization Experience	p. 17
Museums and Metadata: A Shifting Paradigm	p. 37
The Eye of the Beholder: Challenges of Image Description and Access at Harvard	p. 51
Building a Metadata-Sharing Campus: The University of Minnesota IMAGES Initiatives	p. 70
Crosswalking Citation Metadata: The University of California's Experience	p. 89
CanCore: Semantic Interoperability for Learning Object Metadata	p. 104
The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Metadata Development and Use	p. 117
Distributing and Synchronizing Heterogeneous Metadata in Geospatial Information Repositories for Access	p. 139
The Internet Scout Project's Metadata Management Experience: Research, Solutions, and Knowledge	p. 158
Lessons Learned from the Illinois OAI Metadata Harvesting Project	p. 174
The Future of Metadata Development and Practice
Community-Based Content Control	p. 191
Building an Open Language Archives Community on the DC Foundation	p. 203
Mixed Content and Mixed Metadata: Information Discovery in a Messy World	p. 223
The Continuum of Metadata Quality: Defining, Expressing, Exploiting	p. 238
Metadata Futures: Steps toward Semantic Interoperability	p. 257
Contributors	p. 272
Index	p. 279
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