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Introduction to Metadata: A Select Bibliography

Mother of all Metadata sites:

Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources (IFLA) Online.
Available: http://www.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm

General Works:

Ahronheim, Judith R. "Descriptive metadata: Emerging standards." Journal of Academic Librarianship. 24, no. 5 (Sept. 1998): 395-404.

Arms, William Y. Digital Libraries. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000

Baca, Murtha. Introduction to Metadata. Getty Trust, 2000. Version 2.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/

Baker, Thomas. "DC Qualifiers and a Grammar for DC Metadata. " DLIB (Oct. 2000). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october00/baker/10baker.html

Borgman, Christine L. From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World. Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, c2000

Burnett, Kathleen, Kwong Bor Ng, and Soyeon Park. "A comparison of the two traditions of metadata development." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 50, no. 13 (Nov. 1999): 1209-1217.

Gorman, Michael. "Metadata or cataloging? A false choice." Journal of Internet Cataloging. 2, no. 1 (1999): 5-22.

Gradmann, Stefan. "Cataloging vs. metadata, old wine in new bottles?" International Cataloging and Bibliographic Control. 28, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1999): 88-90.

Hakala, Juha. "Internet metadata and library cataloging." International Cataloging and Bibliographic Control. 28, no. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1999): 21-25.

Hugins, Jean, Grace Agnew, and Elizabeth Brown. Getting Mileage out of Metadata: Applications for the Library. Chicago: American Library Association, 1999.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51, no. 1, (2000). (Special Issue: When Museum Informatics Meets the World Wide Web. Issue Edited by David Bearman, Jennifer Trant.)

_____.Volume 50, no. 13 (1999). (Special Issue: Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards. Issue Edited by Zorana Ercegovac.)

Kenney, Anne R., and Oya Y, Rieger. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Mountain View, Calif.: Research Libraries Group, 2000.

Lagoze, Carl. "Keeping Dublin Core Simple Cross-Domain Discovery or Resource Description?" DLIB 7, no. 1 (Jan. 2001) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january01/lagoze/01lagoze.html

Lee-Smeltzer, Kuang-Hwei (Janet). "Finding the needle: controlled vocabularies, resource discovery, and Dublin Core." Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical Services. 24 (2000): 205-215.

Lesk, Michael. Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes, Bucks. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.

Lynch, Clifford A. "When documents deceive: trust and provenance as new factors for information retrieval in a tangled web." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 52, no. 1 (Jan. 2001): 12-17.

Miller, Paul and Daniel Greenstein. Discovering Online Resources Across the Humanities: A Practical Implementation of the Dublin Core. Bath, UK: UKLON, 1997.

Milstead, Jessica and Susan Feldman. "Metadata: Cataloging by Any Other Name … " ONLINE. (Jan.) 1999. http://www.infotoday.com/online/OL1999/milstead1.html

_____."Metadata projects and standards." ONLINE. (Jan. 1999).
http://www.infotoday.com/online/OL1999/milstead1.html#projects

Sitts, Maxine K. Handbook for Digital Projects: a Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover, Mass.: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000.
Also available online in as a pdf: http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm

Smits, Jan. "Metadata: and introduction." Cataloging and Classification Quarterly. 27, no. 3-4 (1999): 303-19.

Svenonius, Elaine. The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000.

Turner, Thomas P. and Lise Brackbill. "Rising to the top: evaluating the use of HTML metatags to improve the retrieval of World Wide Web documents through Internet search engines." Library Resources & Technical Services. 42 (Oct. 98): 258-271.

Vellucci, Sherry L. "Metadata and Authority Control." Library Resources & Technical Services. 44, no. 1 (Jan. 2000)

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