PART I: METADATA CONCEPTS 1. Introduction Overview Why metadata? Fundamental principles of metadata Purposes of metadata Why is metadata important? Organisation of the book 2. Defining, describing and expressing metadata Overview Defining metadata XML schemas Databases of metadata Examples of metadata in use Conclusion 3. Data modelling Overview Metadata models Unified Modelling Language (UML) Resource Description Framework (RDF) Dublin Core The Library Reference Model (LRM) and the development of RDA ABC ontology and the semantic web Indecs - Modelling book trade data OAIS - Online exchange of data Conclusion 4. Metadata Standards Overview The nature of metadata standards About standards Dublin Core - a general-purpose standard Metadata standards in library and information work Social media Non-textual materials Complex objects Conclusion PART II: PURPOSES OF METADATA 5. Resource identification and description (Purpose 1) Overview How do you identify a resource? Identifiers RFIDs and identification Describing resources Descriptive metadata Conclusion 6. Retrieving information (Purpose 2) Overview The role of metadata in information retrieval Information theory Types of information retrieval Evaluating retrieval performance Retrieval on the internet Subject indexing and retrieval Metadata and computational models of retrieval Conclusion 7. Managing information resources (Purpose 3) Overview Information lifecycles Create or ingest Preserve and store Distribute and use Review and dispose Transform Conclusion 8.
Managing intellectual property rights (Purpose 4) Overview Rights management Provenance Conclusion 9. Supporting e-commerce and e-government (Purpose 5) Overview Electronic transactions E-commerce Online behavioural advertising Indecs and ONIX Publishing and the book trade E-government Conclusion 10. Information governance (Purpose 6) Overview Governance and risk Information governance Compliance (freedom of information and data protection) E-discovery (legal admissibility) Information risk, information security and disaster recovery Sectoral compliance Conclusion PART III: MANAGING METADATA 11. Managing metadata Overview Metadata is an information resource Workflow and metadata lifecycle Project approach Application profiles Interoperability of metadata Quality considerations Metadata security Conclusion 12. Taxonomies and encoding schemes Overview Role of taxonomies in metadata Encoding and maintenance of controlled vocabularies Thesauri and taxonomies Content rules - authority files Ontologies Social tagging and folksonomies Conclusion 13. Very large data collections Overview The move towards big data What is big data? The role of linked data in open data repositories Data in an organisational context Social media, web transactions and online behavioural advertising Research data collections Conclusion 14. Politics and ethics of metadata Overview Ethics Power Money Re-examining the purposes of metadata Managing metadata itself Conclusion.