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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 200 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 02-Nov-2021
  • Kirjastus: Facet Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 1783304847
  • ISBN-13: 9781783304844
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 200 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 02-Nov-2021
  • Kirjastus: Facet Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 1783304847
  • ISBN-13: 9781783304844
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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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This book is essential reading for anyone aiming to create a digital library from scratch. But it is also a clear, concise guide to core metadata concepts, and a handy reference for numerous schemas and technical tools, for any librarian working with metadata. I expect to be regularly referring to my copy for years to come, and I believe I will be a better librarian for it.

- Catalogue & Index

Figures and tables xi
Acknowledgements xiii
List of abbreviations xv
1 Introduction, Aims and Definitions 1(8)
1.1 Origins
1(1)
1.2 From information science to libraries
2(2)
1.3 The central place of metadata
4(2)
1.4 The book in outline
6(3)
2 Metadata Basics 9(16)
2.1 Introduction
9(1)
2.2 Three types of metadata
10(9)
2.2.1 Descriptive metadata
10(4)
2.2.2 Administrative metadata
14(4)
2.2.3 Structural metadata
18(1)
2.3 The core components of metadata
19(4)
2.3.1 Syntax
19(1)
2.3.2 Semantics
20(1)
2.3.3 Content rules
21(2)
2.4 Metadata standards
23(1)
2.5 Conclusion
23(2)
3 Planning a Metadata Strategy: Basic Principles 25(12)
3.1 Introduction
25(1)
3.2 Principle 1: Support all stages of the digital curation lifecycle
25(2)
3.3 Principle 2: Support the long-term preservation of the digital object
27(2)
3.4 Principle 3: Ensure interoperability .
29(1)
3.5 Principle 4: Control metadata content wherever possible
30(1)
3.6 Principle 5: Ensure software independence
31(1)
3.7 Principle 6: Impose a logical system of identifiers
32(1)
3.8 Principle 7: Use standards whenever possible
32(1)
3.9 Principle 8: Ensure the integrity of the metadata itself
33(1)
3.10 Summary: the basic principles of a metadata strategy
34(3)
4 Planning a Metadata Strategy: Applying the Basic Principles 37(16)
4.1 Introduction
37(1)
4.2 Initial steps: standards as a foundation
37(8)
4.2.1 'Off-the shelf' standards
38(2)
4.2.2 Mapping out an architecture and serialising it into a standard
40(3)
4.2.3 Devising a local metadata scheme
43(2)
4.2.4 How standards support the basic principles
45(1)
4.3 Identifiers: everything in its place
45(8)
5 XML: The Syntactical Foundation of Metadata 53(14)
5.1 Introduction
53(1)
5.2 What XML looks like
54(2)
5.3 XML schemas
56(1)
5.4 Namespaces
57(3)
5.5 Creating and editing XML
60(2)
5.6 Transforming XML
62(3)
5.7 Why use XML?
65(2)
6 METS: The Metadata Package 67(22)
6.1 Introduction
67(1)
6.2 Why use METS?
67(2)
6.3 The METS architecture
69(1)
6.4 Identifiers within METS
70(1)
6.5 The METS root element
71(1)
6.6 The METS Header
72(1)
6.7 Descriptive Metadata Section
73(1)
6.8 Administrative Metadata Section
74(3)
6.9 The File Section
77(5)
6.10 The Structural Map
82(3)
6.11 Structural Links and Behavior Section
85(2)
6.12 Creating and using METS in practice
87(2)
7 Descriptive Metadata: Semantics 89(16)
7.1 Introduction
89(1)
7.2 Dublin Core
89(4)
7.3 MODS - the Metadata Object Description Schema
93(6)
7.4 MARCXML
99(2)
7.5 Other descriptive metadata standards
101(3)
7.5.1 VRA Core
102(1)
7.5.2 Text Encoding Initiative P5 Manuscript Description
102(1)
7.5.3 Schemas from the sciences and social sciences
103(1)
7.5.4 Using these schemas
103(1)
7.6 Descriptive metadata: from semantics to content rules
104(1)
8 Descriptive Metadata: Content Rules 105(22)
8.1 Introduction
105(1)
8.2 Why content rules are needed
105(2)
8.3 Cataloguing rules
107(3)
8.3.1 Established standards for cataloguing rules
108(2)
8.4 Devising local guidelines
110(7)
8.5 Controlled vocabularies
117(7)
8.5.1 Name authorities
118(3)
8.5.2 Subjects
121(2)
8.5.3 Codes and dates
123(1)
8.6 Creating local name authorities and thesauri: the MADS schema
124(3)
9 Administrative and Preservation Metadata 127(20)
9.1 Introduction
127(2)
9.2 PREMIS: an overview
129(10)
9.2.1 Technical metadata: the PREMIS Object entity
130(3)
9.2.2 Digital provenance metadata: the PREMIS Event and Agent entities
133(3)
9.2.3 Rights metadata: the PREMIS Rights entity
136(2)
9.2.4 Using PREMIS with METS
138(1)
9.3 Other useful schemas for administrative metadata
139(6)
9.3.1 Technical metadata
139(4)
9.3.2 Rights metadata
143(2)
9.4 How much administrative metadata do we need?
145(2)
10 Pathways to Interoperability 147(12)
10.1 Introduction
147(1)
10.2 Exchanging METS files
148(3)
10.3 Metadata harvesting
151(2)
10.4 The Semantic Web
153(4)
10.5 Conclusion
157(2)
11 Implementing the Strategy: Two Case Studies 159(14)
11.1 Introduction
159(1)
11.2 The Warburg Digital Library
159(7)
11.3 The Warburg Iconographic Database
166(6)
11.4 Conclusion
172(1)
12 Summary and Conclusions 173(8)
12.1 Introduction
173(1)
12.2 The strategy in outline
173(5)
12.2.1 The basic principles of a metadata strategy (Chapter 3)
173(1)
12.2.2 Standards and identifiers (Chapter 4)
174(1)
12.2.3 Syntax (Chapter 5)
175(1)
12.2.4 Packaging the metadata (Chapter 6)
175(1)
12.2.5 Descriptive metadata (Chapter 7)
175(1)
12.2.6 Content rules (Chapter 8)
176(1)
12.2.7 Administrative and preservation metadata (Chapter 9)
177(1)
12.2.8 Enabling interoperability (Chapter 10)
178(1)
12.3 Conclusions
178(3)
Appendix: Sample MODS File Serialised from Data Model 181(2)
Useful Resources 183(6)
Key metadata standards referenced
183(2)
Supplementary documentation and resources
185(4)
Further Reading 189(6)
References 195(2)
Index 197
Richard Gartner is a librarian and academic whose primary area of research is the theory and practice of metadata. He is currently the Digital Librarian at the Warburg Institute in the University of London where he established and is responsible for the Institute's digital library. He previously worked at the Bodleian Library, Oxford where he instigated the Library's first digitisation programmes and devised the metadata strategy for the Oxford Digital Library. More recently he was a lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London where he taught and researched metadata theory and practice and digital curation. Richard has written over 50 publications on metadata in the academic literature and is the author of the widely-read book Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web (Springer, 2016).