Metadata: a current view of practice and issues

Lorcan Dempsey, Rachel Heery

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    Abstract

    This paper describes emerging metadata practice and standards. It gives an overview of the environments in which metadata is used, before focusing on metadata for information resources. It outlines an approximate typology of approaches and explores different strands of metadata activity. It discusses trends in format development, metadata management, and use of search and retrieve protocols. It concludes by discussing some features of future deployment of metadata in support of network resource discovery.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)145-172
    Number of pages28
    JournalJournal of Documentation
    Volume54
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1998

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