Hi, Robb:
I'm the Assistant Director of Publishing at Neal-Schuman, but even if I
wasn't, I'd suggest Marcia Zeng and Jian Qin's recently published *Metadata*.
No arm-twisting, but here's some info:
Full description: http://www.neal-schuman.com/meta
Table of Contents, Preface and Introduction (PDF):
http://www.neal-schuman.com/sandbox/images/pdf/9781555706357.pdf
Companion web site: http://www.metadataetc.org/book-website/
Hope this is of interest,
Paul
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Paul Seeman
Assistant Director of Publishing
Neal-Schuman Publishers
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Robb Mullins <robbmullins_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm looking for resources that explain who developed different types of
> metadata and why. Individuals and organizations.
> For example,
> XML -- Where did it come from? Why? Why was it needed? Who developed
> it? Is there anything about that development that a librarian needs to be
> aware of today?
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> Basic stuff. For a beginning librarian.
> I'm looking for any resources. Online, books, etc.
> Simple is good though. This is beginner level material so it doesn't need
> to be the elaborate history. A page of text is probably more than I need.
> What types of metadata? Any. All. The most used, most known. AACR2,
> MARC, html, XML, Dublin Core, etc, etc, etc.
> Brief, simple, but wide for types of metadata.
>
> Any ideas?
> I'm just beginning to search. A scholarly "Intro to Metadata for Dummies,"
> one book that covers each type of metadata in a simple format... I'm hoping
> to find a book or website like that. But schoarly of course. An expert in
> metadata who wrote one book for beginners would be great.
> Viele Danke. :)
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Received on Sat Sep 20 2008 - 22:08:06 EDT