Webography of Resources for Records Professionals
METADATA PREPARATION
General Information
- Bibliographic Control for Archival Materials (Moyra K. Mason, 2011)
- Controlled vocabularies, thesauri, and taxonomies (Heather Hedden, The Indexer Vol. 26 No. 1, 2008)
- Digital Archive Metadata Elements (OCLC Digital Systems Guides, Library of Congress, 2002)
- Gentle Introduction to Metadata (Jeff Good, University of California, Berkeley, 2000)
- International Metadata Initiatives: Lessons in Bibliographic Control (Priscilla Caplan, Florida Center for Library Automation, 2001)
- Introduction to Metadata (Chris Taylor, The University of Queensland, Australia, 2003)
- Introduction to Metadata (JISC Digital Media, Managing Your Digital Resources, 2010)
- Introduction to Metadata for Digital Libraries (Howard Besser, UCLA School of Education and Information, 2000)
- Metadata (Minnesota State Archives, 2003)
- Metadata (National Archives of the Netherlands)
- Metadata Basics (metadataetc.org)
- Metadata Types & Functions version 1.3 (metadataetc.org, 2007)
- METS: An Overview and Tutorial (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard, Library of Congress, 2011)
- NINCH Guide to Good Practice, Appendix B. Metadata (NINCH Guide to Good Practice, Appendix B. Metadata, 2002)
- Open Archives Initiative for Metadata Harvesting (OAI, 2008)
- Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research, 2010)
- Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, 2007)
- Understanding Metadata (NISO Press, 2004)
Administrative Metadata
- Administrative Components – Dublin Core DCMI Administrative Metadata (DCMI Administrative Metadata Working Group)
- Administrative Metadata for Digital Still Images (Harvard University Library: Digital Repository Service, 2004)
- Best Practices for Administrative Metadata (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Sample Administrative Metadata (Society of American Archivists Metadata and Digital Object Roundtable, 2007)
Descriptive Metadata
- Authority Files for Cataloging Pictures: Common Choices (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, 2004)
- Best Practices for Descriptive Metadata (Yale University, 2008)
- Controlled Vocabularies and Thesauri available online (controlledvocabulary.com)
- Descriptive Metadata Standards for RLG Cultural Materials (Research Libraries Group, 2005)
- Designing a Controlled Vocabulary for use with Digital Asset Libraries (Ralph Windsor, Daydream)
- Developing a Thesaurus (State Records Authority of New South Wales, Australia, 2002)
- Extending MARC for Bibliographic Control in the Web Environment: Challenges and Alternatives (Sally McCallum, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress, 2000)
- Getty Vocabularies (Getty Research Institute)
- Guidelines for the Construction, Format & Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies (ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005)
- International Metadata Initiatives: Lessons in Bibliographic Control (Pricilla Caplan, Florida Center for Library Automation, 2001)
- MARC Standards (Library of Congress)
- Metadata Standards Crosswalk (Getty Research Institute, 2009)
- Taxonomies and controlled vocabularies best practices for metadata (Heather Hedden, Journal of Digital Asset Management, 2010)
- Using Dublin Core (Diane Hillman, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, 2007)
Preservation Metadata
- Digital Preservation Metadata Standards (Angela Dappert and Markus Enders, Information Standards Quarterly, Vol 22 Issue 2, 2010)
- PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) (Library of Congress)
- Preservation Metadata (presentation slides) (Michael Day, Digital Curation Centre, 2007)
- Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art (OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata, 2001)
- Preservation Metadata: Pragmatic First Steps at the National Library of New Zealand (Sam Searle and Dave Thompson, D-Lib Magazine Vol 9 Number 4, 2003)
- Understanding PREMIS (PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) (Priscilla Caplan, Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office, 2009)
- Technology Watch Report: Preservation Metadata (Brian Lavoie and Richard Gartner, Office of Research, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2005)
Structural Metadata
- Administrative Metadata for Still Images (Harvard University Library, 2004) Despite its title, this guide really relates to structural metadata elements such as bit samples, compressions, etc.
- Best Practices for Structural Metadata (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Best Practices For Structural Metadata (Yale University, 2008)