TY - JOUR
T1 - Metadata
T2 - a current view of practice and issues
AU - Dempsey, Lorcan
AU - Heery, Rachel
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/publications/jdmetadata/
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000007164
U2 - 10.1108/EUM0000000007164
DO - 10.1108/EUM0000000007164
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-0418
VL - 54
SP - 145
EP - 172
JO - Journal of Documentation
JF - Journal of Documentation
IS - 2
ER -