Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-563) and index
Understanding metadata vocabularies -- Creating metadata descriptions -- Metadata structures and semantics -- Metadata schemas -- Metadata services -- Metadata quality measurement and improvement -- Achieving interoperability -- Metadata research landscape -- Current Standards
"The third edition of this landmark textbook has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the many developments and changes in metadata and related domains. Authors Marcia Lei Zeng and Jian Qin provide a solid grounding in the variety and interrelationships among different metadata types, offering a comprehensive look at the metadata schemas that exist in the world of library and information science and beyond. "-- Publisher's description
