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  • Information Resource Description: Creating and managing metadata

    Information Resource Description by Hider, Philip;

    Creating and managing metadata

    Series: Foundations of the Information Sciences;

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    Short description:

    This new edition offers a fully updated and expanded overview of the field of information organization, examining the description of information resources as both a product and process of the contemporary digital environment.

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    Long description:

    This new edition offers a fully updated and expanded overview of the field of information organization, examining the description of information resources as both a product and process of the contemporary digital environment.
    Information Resource Description 2nd edition explains how the various elements and values of descriptive metadata support a set of common information retrieval functions across a wide range of environments.Through this unifying framework, the book provides an integrated commentary of the various fields and practices of information organization carried out by today's information professionals and end-users.


    Key topics and updates to the first edition include:



    • discussion of big data vs the traditional database model

    • introduces and applies the FRBR-LRM user tasks

    • expanded coverage of scholarly repositories and questions around Open Access

    • new section on the history of information organization

    • expanded discussion of the functions, economics and management of metadata

    • a new section on mobile access


    This book will be useful reading for LIS students taking information organization courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, information professionals wishing to specialise in this field, and existing metadata specialists who wish to update their knowledge.

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    Table of Contents:

    1. Definitions and scope  2. Information resource attributes  3. Tools and systems  4. Metadata sources  5. Metadata quality  6. Sharing metadata  7. Metadata standards  8. Vocabularies  9. The future of metadata.

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