Metadata In Practice / Diane i. Hillmann & Elaine l, Westbrooks

PART-I Project-Based Implementations 1. Building an Education Digital Library: GEM and Early Metadata Standards Adoption------Stuart A. Sutton 2. Building Heritage Colorado: The Colorado Digitization Experience -------Liz Bishoff and Elizabeth S. Meagher 3. Museums and Metadata: A Shifting Paradigm--------Angela Spinazze 4. The Eye of the Beholder: Challenges of Image Description and Access at Harvard----------Robin Wendler 5. Building a Metadata-Sharing Campus: The University of Minnesota IMAGES Initiatives --------Charles F. Thomas 6. Crosswalking Citation Metadata: The University of California's Experience ------------Karen Coyle 7. CanCore: Semantic Interoperability for Learning Object Metadata-------------Norm Friesen 8. The Alexandria Digital Library Project; Metadata Development and Use-------------Linda L. Hill and Greg janee 9. Distributing and Synchronizing Heterogeneous Metadata in Geospatial Information Repositories for Access ----Elaine L. Westbrooks 10. The Internet Scout Project's Metadata Management Experience: Research, Solutions, and Knowledge-------- Rachael Bower, David Sleasman, and Edward Almasy 11. Lessons Learnd from the Illinois OAI Metadata Harvesting Project---------Timothy W. Cole and Sarah L. Shreeves

PART II ---- The Future of Metadata Development and Practice 12. Community-Based Content Control---------Harriette Hemmasi 13. Building an Open Language Archives Community on the DC Foundation--------Steven Bird and Gary Simons 14. Mixed Content and Mixed Metadata: Information Discovery in a Messy World--------Caroline R. Arms and William Y. Arms 15. The continuum of Metadata quality: Defining, Expressing, Exploiting -----Thomas R. Bruce and Diane I. Hillmann 16. Metadata Futures: Steps toward Semantic Interoperability---------- Rachel Heery

In the "Wild West" of digital library metadata projects, pioneering information specialists have uncovered successful solution, Learned what to avoid, and find ways to proceed amid constant change. As administrator of the new "AskDCMI" service. Diane Hillmann has fielded hundreds of questions from implementers. this new collection of reports from the field, co-edited by Hillmann and Elaine Westbrooks, is and opportunity for Librarians to learn from the experiences of others involved in technically diverse digital library projects that have metadata components.

Part One illustrates a broad range of metadata projects involving university, statewide collaborations, image databases, geographic data and metadata aggregations, while Part Two moves beyond the lessons learned from the recent past and addresses future trends in metadata standards relevant to digital libraries, how these elements relate to one another and traditional library practices, how planners intergrate cutting-edge metadata issues into projects planning, and what the future holds for the harvesting, reuse, and re-purposing of information.

Sharing detailed results in candid reports, the contributors provide valuable information and lessons learned that are not readily available anywhere else. This collection offers project planners, metadata librarians, systems and technical services librarians, and catalogues a problem-solving approach and real-world supplement for their metadata needs.