Information Resource Description: Creating and Managing Metadata - Softcover

Philip Hider

Softcover

ISBN 10: 083891201X ISBN 13: 9780838912010

Publisher: ALA Editions, 2012

Synopsis

This book serves as a primer on information and knowledge organization, with particular reference to digital environments. It introduces the conventions and standards of contemporary document description, and the principles and trends of professional practice. Employing the unifying mechanism of the semantic web and the resource description framework, Hider integrates the various traditions and practices of information and knowledge organization. Uniquely, he 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 RDA: Resource Description and Access standard, which aims to move library cataloging into the center of the semantic web. This book brings both the standard and its model and concepts into focus, covering such key topics as:</div><div>

• Information resource attributes
• Metadata for information retrieval
• Metadata sources and quality
• Economics and management of metadata
• Knowledge organization systems
• The semantic web
• Books and e-books, and websites and audiovisual resources
• Business and government documents
• Learning resources
• The field of information/knowledge organization

</div><div>This comprehensive introduction to information resource description is essential reading for LIS students taking information organization courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, information professionals wishing to specialize in metadata, and existing metadata specialists who wish to update their knowledge.</div>

About this title

About the Author

Philip Hider MA PhD FCLIP is Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He is Associate Member of the Australian Library and Information Association, and a member of the Australian Committee on Cataloguing.

Reviews

Hider presents in nine chapters an in-depth discussion on describing information resources of any medium. Intended not only for librarians and knowledge managers, this work is suitable for new and seasoned practitioners as well as students working in museums, collections of ephemera, and any other collections of knowledge in any format. The work begins by defining key concepts used in the book, and it continues with focused discussions on information-resource attributes, tools and systems, metadata sources and quality, sharing metadata, metadata standards, vocabularies, and the future of metadata. Each chapter includes an introduction and references as well as a list of suggested further readings, which are also featured in the book’s bibliography. This book is useful not only for those interested in describing information sources but also for those working with materials or knowledge in any format that needs to be organized for future access. Recommended for special collections and students. --Sara Marcus

Edition details

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 083891201X
• ISBN 13: 9780838912010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220