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Metadata best practices and guidelines function as an essential
mechanism for metadata planning, application and management, and
interoperability. There has been a rapidly growing body of digital
repositories and collections; accordingly, a wide range of digital
projects and initiatives have adopted various metadata standards.
Because of differences in the formats and knowledge domains of the
resources, it is inevitable that these digital projects and
initiatives may have different needs regarding metadata. Therefore,
when a metadata standard is adopted in various institutions and
organizations, it may have to be modified to reflect the community
needs and characteristics of given resources. The flexibility and
complex structure of natural language allow for the representation
of a concept in various ways. Thus, common understanding and
definitions of terms in a given metadata standard is essential for
quality metadata generation, management, interoperability and
resource sharing. This opens up a pressing need for a systematic
examination of documentation practices, an area that up to now has
been relatively unexplored. This book begins to fill the research
gap through an empirical assessment of metadata guidelines and best
practices. This is a book published as a special issue of the
Journal of Library Metadata.
New Directions in Information Organization, co-edited by Dr.
Jung-ran Park and Dr. Lynne Howarth seeks to provide an overview
and understanding of the future directions, leading edge theories
and models for research and practice in information organization.
New information standards and digital library technologies are
being developed at a rapid pace as diverse communities of practice
seek new ways to organize massive quantities of digital resources.
Today's digital information explosion creates an increased demand
for new perspectives, methods and tools for research and practice
in information organization. This new direction in information
organization is even more critical owing to changing user needs and
expectations in conjunction with the collaborative and
decentralized nature of bibliographic control. The general aim of
this book is to present the current state of the digital
information revolution with the associated opportunities and
challenges to information organization. Through an
interdisciplinary perspective, it presents broad, holist and more
integrated perspective on the nature of information organization
and examines new direction in information organization research and
thinking. The book highlights the need to understand information
organization and the Web 2.0 in the context of the rapidly changing
information world and provides an overview of key trends and
further research.
Through cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives, this book
uncovers unexplored areas of the semantic shifts and functional
developments of discourse-pragmatic markers by examining historical
and contemporary language usage of Korean and other languages. The
discourse-pragmatic markers examined in this book evince
multifaceted and multifunctional characteristics. On the textual
level discourse-pragmatic markers build intra-textual coherence and
sequential coordination; on the interpersonal level they index the
speaker's epistemic and interpersonal stances in relation to
interlocutors and upcoming discourse. The semantic shifts
engendered through the metaphoric and metonymic processes and
functional development of these markers manifest unidirectionality
and regularity in semantic change. This book should be especially
useful to researchers as well as graduate and advanced
undergraduate students in disciplines dealing with language and
culture in general, particularly linguistics and communications.
Anyone interested in online social interaction and computer
mediated communication across cultures will find valuable insights
in this volume.
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