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Facet Publishing Metadata for Digital Collections 2nd Edition by Steven J Miller
Since it was first published, LIS students and professionals everywherehave relied on Miller's authoritative manual for clear instruction on thereal-world practice of metadata design and creation. Now the author has givenhis text a top-to-bottom overhaul to bring it fully up-to-date, making it eveneasier for readers to acquire the knowledge and skills they need, whether theyuse the book on the job or in a classroom. By following this book's guidance,with its inclusion of numerous practical examples that clarify commonapplication issues and challenges, readers will:learnabout the concept of metadata and its functions for digital collections,why it's essential to approach metadata specifically as data for machineprocessing, and how metadata can work in the rapidly developing LinkedData environmentknowhow to create high-quality resource descriptions using widely sharedmetadata standards, vocabularies and elements commonly needed for digitalcollectionsbecomethoroughly familiarized with Dublin Core (DC) through exploration of DCMIMetadata Terms, CONTENTdm best practices, and DC as Linked Datadiscoverwhat Linked Data is, how it is expressed in the Resource DescriptionFramework (RDF), and how it works in relation to specific semantic models(typically called 'ontologies') such as BIBFRAME, comprised of propertiesand classes with 'domain' and 'range' specificationsget toknow the MODS and VRA Core metadata schemes, along with recentdevelopments related to their use in a Linked Data settingunderstandthe nuts and bolts of designing and documenting a metadata scheme andgainknowledge of vital metadata interoperability and quality issues, includinghow to identify and clean inconsistent, missing, and messy metadata usinginnovative tools such as OpenRefine.Complete with an updated bibliography pointing readers to essentialbooks, articles and web documents for deeper learning, this second edition willprove itself a must-have reference for practitioners and students alike.show more