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Metadata in the Digital Library - Building an Integrated Strategy with XML (Hardcover)
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Metadata in the Digital Library - Building an Integrated Strategy with XML (Hardcover)
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The range of metadata needed to run a digital library and preserve
its collections in the long term is much more extensive and
complicated than anything in its traditional counterpart. It
includes the same 'descriptive' information which guides users to
the resources they require but must supplement this with
comprehensive 'administrative' metadata: this encompasses technical
details of the files that make up its collections, the
documentation of complex intellectual property rights and the
extensive set needed to support its preservation in the long-term.
To accommodate all of this requires the use of multiple metadata
standards, all of which have to be brought together into a single
integrated whole. Metadata in the Digital Library is a complete
guide to building a digital library metadata strategy from scratch,
using established metadata standards bound together by the markup
language XML. The book introduces the reader to the theory of
metadata and shows how it can be applied in practice. It lays out
the basic principles that should underlie any metadata strategy,
including its relation to such fundamentals as the digital curation
lifecycle, and demonstrates how they should be put into effect. It
introduces the XML language and the key standards for each type of
metadata, including Dublin Core and MODS for descriptive metadata
and PREMIS for its administrative and preservation counterpart.
Finally, the book shows how these can all be integrated using the
packaging standard METS. Two case studies from the Warburg
Institute in London show how the strategy can be implemented in a
working environment. The strategy laid out in this book will ensure
that a digital library's metadata will support all of its
operations, be fully interoperable with others and enable its
long-term preservation. It assumes no prior knowledge of metadata,
XML or any of the standards that it covers. It provides both an
introduction to best practices in digital library metadata and a
manual for their practical implementation.
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