Metadata best practices and guidelines : current implementation and future trends
- AbingdonGB Routledge 2012
- v, 162 p.
Analyses variations and commonalities among twenty metadata best practices and guides, used by institutions in the US, based on the DC metadata standard, in terms of metadata element status, metadata semantics in relation to label names and definitions, ie. description of metadata elements, content encoding rules, usage of controlled and uncontrolled vocabularies.