Metadata in Practice

书名：Metadata in Practice
作者：Diane I. Hillmann
作者：Elaine L. Westbrooks
出版社：American Library Association
出版年：2004
ISBN：0-8389-0882-9

目录：

Part I. Project-Based Implementations

1. Building an Education Digital Library: GEM and Early Metadata Standards Adoption. Stuart A. Sutton
2. Building Heritage Colorado: The Colorado Digitization Experience. Liz Bishoff and Elizabeth S. Meagher
3. Museums and Metadata：A Shifting Paradigm. Angela Spinazze
4. The Eye of the Beholder: Challenges of Image Description and Access at Harvard. Robin Wendler
5. Building a Metadata-Sharing Campus: The University of Minnesota IMAGES Initiatives. Charles F. Thomas
6. Crosswalking Citation Metadata: The University of California’s Experience. Karen Coyle
7. CanCore: Semantic Interoperability for Learning Object Metadata. Norm Friesen
8. The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Metadata Development and Use. Linda L. Hill and Greg Janee
9. Distributing and Synchronizing Heterogeneous Metadata in Geospatial Information Repositories for Access. Elaine L. Westbrooks
10. The internet Scout Project’s Metadata Management Experience: Research, Solutions, and Knowledge. Rachael Bower, David Sleasman, and Edward Almasy
11. Lessons Learned from the Illinois OAI Metadata Harvesting Project. Timothy W. Cole and Sarah L. Shreeves

Part II. The Future of Metadata Development and Practice

12. Community-Based Content Control. Harriette Hemmasi
13. Buiding an Open Language Archives Community on the DC Foundation. Steven Bird and Gary Simons
14. Mixed Content and Mixed Metadata: Information Discovery in a Messy World. Caroline R. Arms and William Y. Arms
15. The Continuum of Metadata Quality: Defining, Expressing , Exploiting. Thomas R. Bruce and Diane I. Hillmann
16. Metadata Futures: Steps toward Semantic Interoperability. Rachel Heery

这是Diane编的书！简直如雷贯耳。虽然只是编的，然而汇总了20多位元数据领域的先行者的研究，还有Diane Hillmann掌舵，绝对是元数据专题值得认真学习的一本书。

当然毕竟老了点。2004年元数据方法中不少东西还没有定型，例如抽象模型还没有严格定义，新加坡框架还没有提出，知识本体的概念还很朦胧，语义技术的应用初露端倪…，这是一本前沿的、素材丰富的、提出问题的价值大于提供答案的，元数据研究必备的一本著作。