Table of Contents

1. Introduction Jung-ran Park 2. Metadata Decisions for Digital Libraries: A Survey Report Marcia Lei Zeng, Jaesun Lee, and Allene F. Hayes 3. A Metadata Best Practice for a Scientific Data Repository Jane Greenberg, Hollie C. White, Sarah Carrier, and Ryan Scherle 4. Metadata for Special Collections in CONTENTdm: How to Improve Interoperability of Unique Fields Through OAI-PMH Myung-Ja Han, Christine Cho, Timothy W. Cole, and Amy S. Jackson 5. Implications and Challenges of Educational Standards Metadata Anne R. Diekema 6. Defining Best Practices in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Metadata Rebecca L. Lubas 7. Implementing TEI Projects and Accompanying Metadata for Small Libraries: Rationale and Best Practices Richard Wisneski and Virginia Dressler 8. Providing Metadata for Compound Digital Objects: Strategic Planning for an Institution’s First Use of METS, MODS, and MIX Michael Dulock and Christopher Cronin 9. Documenting Local Procedures: The Development of Standard Digitization Processes Through the Dear Comrade Project Emily Symonds and Cinda May

About the Author

Jung-ran Park is currently an assistant professor at the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University. Her research areas are knowledge organization and representation and computer-mediated communication/online discourse. Dr. Park is currently Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Library Metadata published by Taylor & Francis Group.