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ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Introduction to Metadata Standards XML for Catalogers and
Indexing and and Web Services in Metadata Librarians

Abstracting Libraries, Archives, TIMOTHY W. COLE
and Museums AND MYUNG-JA K. HAN
Fourth Edition
DONALD CLEVELAND
AND ANA CLEVELAND An Active
Learning Resource

ERIK MITCHELL

May 2013, 385pp, 7x10
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well as various career and job used in a classroom setting.
opportunities, should prove Graduate students and Readers may also use the text
useful for students interested “ professionals in academic and for personal study to gain a
in the profession. Authoritative public libraries, archives, and working knowledge of XML
and academic, Introduction to museums will find this book technologies. ”
Indexing and Abstracting is a worthwhile as a resource for —ARBA, August 1, 2013
valuable reference tool. ” grasping the design principles This book provides a foundation of

—VOYA, January 21, 2014 that underlie web services in a knowledge for catalogers, metadata
cultural heritage context.
Successful information access in the ” librarians, and library school students
digital information age requires robust —Technical Services Quarterly, on the Extensible Markup Language
systems of indexing and abstracting. This October 6, 2016 (XML)—one of the most commonly
book provides a complete introduction Metadata in library information listed qualifications in today’s cataloger
to the subject that covers the many environments is evolving rapidly. and metadata librarian job postings.
recent changes in the field. This book provides readers with a set FEATURES
of tools for designing, developing, • Covers XML from basic concepts,
FEATURES
and implementing metadata-rich such as core syntax and grammar,
• Supplies current and extensive to advanced topics, such as
coverage of the field of indexing and information systems while also
abstracting examining the challenges and transformation and schema design
opportunities in this field. • Provides an in-depth look at
• Provides practical examples of
the procedures for indexing and FEATURES metadata standards used in the
library domain, including MARC,
abstracting
• Takes a cross-disciplinary approach to Dublin Core, MODS, and others
• Includes numerous resource lists the issues, trends, and technologies • Introduces available XML
helpful for practitioners as well as relevant in information communities
students such as libraries, archives, and tools, utilities, and XML related
technologies
museums

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