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This collection offers project planners, metadata librarians, systems and technical services librarians, and catalogers a problem-solving approach and real-world supplement for their metadata needs.

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

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Booklist Review

This book provides important background on the world of metadata (data about data) through a series of reports written by implementers in the field. Part 1 of the text, Project-Based Implementations, details a wide range of different metadata projects that involve an education digital library, statewide collaboration efforts, museums, university libraries, an image database, geographic data, aggregation, and sharing. Part 2 focuses on the future of metadata development and practice by exploring its standards, harvesting, reuse, repurposing, and interoperability, among other topics. Thought-provoking, practical, and deftly written, the book conveys a wealth of information, all strengthened by notes, figures, tables, and an index. An important resource and recommended reading for metadata librarians, systems and technical services librarians, catalogers, and digital project planners. --Sean Kinder Copyright 2004 Booklist

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Edward Almasy is codirector of the Internet Scout Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Caroline Arms is a project manager in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress
William Arms is professor of computer science and director of the information science program at Cornell University
Steven Bird is associate professor of computer science and software engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and senior research associate at the Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
Liz Bishoff is vice president of digital collections and preservation services at OCLC and the owner of the Bishoff Group
Rachael Bower is codirector of the Internet Scout Project, a research and development center in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thomas R. Bruce is the co-founder and director of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School
Timothy W. Cole is mathematics librarian and professor of library administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Karen Coyle is a librarian with over twenty years' experience in digital libraries
Norm Friesen has worked in the area of instructional web development and information management at the University of Alberta and Athabasca University since 1997
Rachel Heery works for UKOLN as assistant director
Harriette Hemmasi is executive associate dean of the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington
Linda L. Hill is a faculty research specialist with the Alexandria Digital Library Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara
Diane I. Hillmann is currently a co-principal investigator for the Core Infrastructure portion of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) located at Cornell University
Greg Janee is technical leader of the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Project
Elizabeth S. Meagher is assistant professor and head of original cataloging and special materials at the University of Denver's Penrose Library
Sarah L. Shreeves is visiting assistant professor of library administration and visiting project coordinator for the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Digital Collections and Content grant project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Gary Simons is associate vice president for academic affairs at SIL International in Dallas, Texas
David Sleasman is the metadata and cataloging coordinator for the Internet Scout Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Angela Spinazze assists museums, government agencies, and other heritage institutions with projects that employ new technologies to document, interpret, and present our creative past
Stuart A. Sutton is associate professor at the Information School of the University of Washington, Seattle
Charles F. Thomas recently assumed a digital library position at Florida State University
Robin Wendler, the metadata analyst in the Harvard University Library's Office for Information Systems
Elaine L. Westbrooks is a metadata librarian at Cornell University's Albert R. Mann Library