Metadata for Digital Resources

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Metadata for Digital Resources is written by Muriel Foulonneau and published by Elsevier. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1780631251 (ISBN 10) and 9781780631257 (ISBN 13).

This book assists information professionals in improving the usability of digital objects by adequately documenting them and using tools for metadata management. It provides practical advice for libraries, archives, and museums dealing with digital collections in a wide variety of formats and from a wider variety of sources. This book is forward-thinking in its approach to using metadata to drive digital library systems, and will be a valuable resource for those creating and managing digital resources as technologies for using those resources grow and change. - Provides practical guidance on the key choices that information professionals in libraries, archives, and museums must make when defining and implementing a metadata strategy - Provides insight on the new area of metadata librarianship while positions are opening in many organizations and many professionals worldwide are charged with managing and sharing metadata - Focuses on metadata usability and the careful definition of what a digital library system must do in order to define a metadata strategy