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Managing Metadata in Web-scale Discovery Systems - Summary
This comprehensive guide tackles the complex challenge of managing metadata in modern library systems, offering practical solutions for librarians and information professionals. The book explores how to effectively handle diverse metadata standards across multiple platforms while ensuring seamless discovery experiences for users. Written by metadata expert Louise F Spiteri, it provides strategic approaches to managing library resources in the age of web-scale discovery systems, addressing both technical and user-focused aspects of metadata management.
Key Ideas
Integration of Diverse Metadata Standards
Explores the intricate process of harmonizing various metadata standards (AACR, RDA, MODS, etc.) within a single discovery system, ensuring interoperability while maintaining data integrity across different collection types and formats.
User-Centric Discovery Experience
Details strategies for optimizing metadata to enhance user search experiences, including methods for managing user-generated content and leveraging social metadata from platforms like Goodreads and LibraryThing to improve resource discovery.
Linked Data Implementation
Examines the transformation of traditional library metadata into linked open data, enabling broader accessibility and improved interoperability across different systems and platforms while supporting diverse cultural and linguistic needs.
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The book is designed for cataloguers, technical services librarians, systems librarians, and library science students studying metadata management and digital libraries. It's also valuable for professionals working with metadata in archives and museums.
The book provides guidance on maintaining shared records that reflect various cultural and ethnic communities' needs, languages, and identities, ensuring inclusive and accessible metadata practices.
The book offers concrete strategies for managing large-scale collections, converting legacy metadata to modern standards, implementing linked data principles, and utilizing user-generated content for improved collection development and reader advisory services.
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