Information resource description : creating and managing metadata

"...an excellent introduction both for students and for practitioners new to the field, and the very readable text is well supported by numerous examples, and lists of additional reading. A welcome addition to the literature in this field." - Vanda Broughton, UCL "Metadata is a topic of great, and continuing importance in all the information sciences and collection disciplines. But it is one in which students and practitioners alike can become lost in details and specifics. Philip Hiders book takes a uniquely wide and integrative approach, combining basic principles and well-chosen examples to give an admirably clear insight into the subject." - David Bawden, City University London "This book promises to be a key resource in the field of information organisation. It takes a broad approach to information resource description without sacrificing the detailed description and explanation that students and practitioners will seek. Dr Hider demonstrates an enviable level of scholarly and professional knowledge and a capacity to structure and communicate it elegantly and with passion." - Stuart Ferguson, University of Canberra "...a great resource for students and for professionals who want to refresh or update their knowledge. Pauline Rafferty, Aberystwyth University This book serves as a primer on information and knowledge organization, with particular reference to metadata practices in the environment. It introduces the conventions and standards of contemporary document description, and the principles and trends of professional practice. This timely book employs the unifying mechanism of the semantic web and the resource description framework to integrate the various traditions and practices of information and knowledge organization. Uniquely, it covers both the domain-specific traditions and practices and the practices of the metadata movement through a single lens that of resource description in the broadest, semantic web sense. This approach more readily accommodates coverage of the new Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, which aims to move library cataloguing into the centre of the semantic web. The work surrounding RDA looks set to revolutionise the field of information organization, and this book will bring both the standard and its model and concepts into focus. Key topics include: information resource attributes metadata for information retrieval metadata sources and quality economics and management of metadata knowledge organization systems the semantic web books, websites and audiovisual resources business and government documents learning resources the field of information/knowledge organization. This book is essential reading for LIS students taking information organization courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, information professionals wishing to s...