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Metadata for information management and retrieval : understanding metadata and its use

2018

Format:	Book
Author:	Haynes, David, author.
Title:	Metadata for information management and retrieval : understanding metadata and its use / David Haynes.
Edition:	Second edition.
Publisher, Date:	London : Facet Publishing, 2018. ©2018
Description:	xiv, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm illustration
Summary:	"Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval has been fully revised to bring it up to date with new technologies and standards. It builds on the concept of metadata through an exploration of its purposes and uses as well as considering the main aspects of metadata management. This new edition, containing new chapters on 'Very Large Data Collections' and the 'Politics and Ethics of Metadata', assesses the current theory and practice of metadata and examines key developments in terms of both policy and technology. Coverage includes: defining, describing and expressing metadata, data modelling, metadata and information retrieval, big data, linked data, and social media, research data collections and open data repositories, metadata in information governance: compliance, risk and information security, managing intellectual property rights, [and] the politics of metadata: ethics, power and money"--Publisher's website.
Subjects:	Metadata. Information organization. Information retrieval. Big data. Intellectual property.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index.
Contents:	Introduction -- Defining, describing and expressing metadata -- Data modeling -- Metadata standards -- Resources identification and description (Purpose 1) -- Retrieving information (Purpose 2) -- Managing information resources (Purpose 3) -- Managing intellectual property rights (Purpose 4) -- Supporting e-commerce and e-government (Purpose 5) -- Information guidance (Purpose 6) -- Managing metadata -- Taxonomies and encoding schemes -- Very large data collections -- Politics and ethics of metadata.
ISBN:	1783301155 9781783301157 9781856048248 1856048241
Other Number:	989054257
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This is the second edition of Haynes's text, written (according to the back cover) as an "introduction to metadata for library and information students and professionals." While Haynes (City, Univ. of London) indeed gives attention to traditional matters of cataloging library holdings, the topic of metadata is much broader than traditional library matters, including issues of internet search and retrieval, social media and advertising, digital commerce, rights management, big data, research data exchange, and government surveillance. In essence, this book provides a survey of organizations and the standards they have developed for using information about information resources (i.e., metadata) effectively in various ways. The book chooses breadth of coverage over depth. The chosen organizational structure make sense, but it leads to much repetition of material and cross-references to previous or later coverage of topics. A shortcoming is the inclusion of illegible screenshots and lists of elements taken from the various works cited, but without discussion. Nonetheless, the work effectively explains the term "metadata," is good at showing the broad range of activities where metadata serves a key role, and provides researchers with a useful guide to work done to date. Summing Up: Recommended. With the caveats above. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.--Christopher Vickery, Queens College of CUNY

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This new and updated second edition of a classic text provides a thought provoking introduction to metadata for all library and information students and professionals.
Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval has been fully revised to bring it up to date with new technologies and standards. It builds on the concept of metadata through an exploration of its purposes and uses as well as considering the main aspects of metadata management. This new edition, containing new chapters on 'Very Large Data Collections' and the 'Politics and Ethics of Metadata', assesses the current theory and practice of metadata and examines key developments in terms of both policy and technology.
Coverage includes:

defining, describing and expressing metadata data modelling metadata and information retrieval big data, linked data, open data repositories, social media and research data collections metadata in information governance: compliance, risk and information security managing intellectual property rights the politics of metadata: ethics, power and money.

This book is essential reading for library and information students at undergraduate and postgraduate level and will also be useful reading for LIS professionals looking for an accessible introduction to metadata.

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