The Future of Enriched, Linked, Open and Filtered Metadata: Making Sense of IFLA LRM, RDA, Linked Data and BIBFRAME

The Future of Enriched, Linked, Open, and Filtered Metadata is a comprehensive guide to creating accurate, consistent, complete, user-centred, and quality metadata that supports user tasks. It applies examples using MARC21, RDA, FRBR, BIBFRAME, subject headings, and name authorities and discusses the underlying principles and protocols of Linked Data. It also considers metadata as a growing and continuously enhancing, customer-focused, and user-driven practice.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 312 pages
Publication date: 15 August 2022
Publisher: Facet Publishing

The Future of Enriched, Linked, Open, and Filtered Metadata is a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to creating high-quality metadata that supports users in their information-seeking endeavors. Authored by an experienced cataloguing and metadata librarian, the book offers valuable insights and practical strategies for configuring, creating, enhancing, and enriching metadata for print and digital resources.

The book begins by providing clear definitions and discussions of key metadata standards, such as MARC, FRBR, LRM, RDA, Linked Data, and BIBFRAME. It explores the underlying principles and protocols of Linked Data in relation to library metadata and discusses practical metadata configuration, creation, management, and cases utilizing cutting-edge library management systems, discovery interfaces, formats, and tools.

One of the key themes of the book is the importance of enriching, linking, opening, and filtering metadata to ensure the discoverability and user-friendliness of information resources. The author emphasizes the need to provide metadata that is accurate, consistent, complete, user-centered, and of high quality. Metadata enrichment involves adding additional descriptive and contextual information to resources, linking them to other relevant resources, and making them accessible through open APIs and protocols.

The book also discusses the role of metadata in supporting users in their research and learning activities. It highlights the importance of metadata in facilitating resource discovery, identifying relevant resources, and evaluating the quality and reliability of information sources. Metadata plays a crucial role in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of information retrieval and promoting lifelong learning.

Throughout the book, the author employs simple and accessible language to make sense of the many existing and emerging metadata standards, models, and approaches. The book is designed to be a valuable resource for anyone involved in metadata creation, management, and utilisation, as well as for LIS students, particularly those undertaking information organisation, cataloguing, and metadata management courses.

In conclusion, The Future of Enriched, Linked, Open, and Filtered Metadata is a comprehensive and practical guide to creating high-quality metadata that supports users in their information-seeking endeavors. Authored by an experienced librarian, the book offers valuable insights and practical strategies for configuring, creating, enhancing, and enriching metadata for print and digital resources. By emphasising the importance of metadata enrichment, linking, opening, and filtering, the book promotes the development of a customer-focused and user-driven metadata practice that aims to support users in finding and retrieving relevant resources for their research and learning.

Weight: 472g
Dimension: 153 x 234 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781783304929