Metadata for Digital Collections: A How‐to‐do‐it Manual

Understanding the metadata needs of digital collections may sound intimidating for the librarian who has little experience working with digital materials or with metadata or both.However, Steven J. Miller's guide may be just the tool to assist a novice in such a project.This guide does not presume that the user has any cataloging experience at all and is written at a beginner's level.This large topic could easily become lost in the details of schemes or workflows, but Miller reins it in by focusing on only three schemes: Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), Visual Resources Association (VRA) Core, and Dublin Core.In fact, he suspects that most readers will be using Dublin Core and embeds Dublin Core-based information and examples in several of the chapters covering resource description, resource identification elements, and resource content and relationship elements.The book is laid out like a manual, with chapters ranging from introductory information about metadata fundamentals, to controlled vocabulary and extensible markup language