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Table des matières
1. Aims and definitions 2. Metadata basics 3. Planning a metadata strategy – basic principles 4. Planning a metadata strategy – applying the basic principles 5. Syntax: the metadata container 6. The overall model: METS 7. Descriptive metadata 8. Content rules 9. Administrative and structural metadata 10. Preservation metadata 11. Interoperability and metadata 12. Implementing the strategy: case studies 13. Summary and conclusions
A propos de l'auteur
Richard Gartner is a librarian and academic whose primary area of research is the theory and practice of metadata. He is currently the Digital Librarian at the Warburg Institute in the University of London where he established and is responsible for the Institute's digital library. He previously worked at the Bodleian Library, Oxford where he instigated the Library's first digitisation programmes and devised the metadata strategy for the Oxford Digital Library. More recently he was a lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London where he taught and researched metadata theory and practice and digital curation. Richard has written over 50 publications on metadata in the academic literature and is the author of the widely-read book Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web (Springer, 2016).
Résumé
This book provides a practical introduction to metadata for the digital library, describing in detail how to implement a strategic approach which will enable complex digital objects to be discovered, delivered and preserved in the short- and long-term.
