This PDF is really useful in helping to understand Metadata - http://www.niso.org/publications/press/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf
What Is
Metadata?
Metadata is structured
information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve,
use, or manage an information resource. Metadata is often called data about
data or information about information. The term metadata is used differently in
different communities. Some use it to refer to machine understandable
information, while others use it only for records that describe electronic
resources. In the library environment, metadata is commonly used for any formal
scheme of resource description, applying to any type of object, digital or
non-digital. Traditional library cataloging is a form of metadata; MARC 21 and
the rule sets used with it, such as AACR2, are metadata standards. Other metadata
schemes have been developed to describe various types of textual and
non-textual objects including published books, electronic documents, archival finding
aids, art objects, educational and
training materials, and scientific data sets.
There are three main types of metadata these are;
- Descriptive metadata - this describes a resource for discovery and identification. It can include elements such as title, abstract, author and keywords.
- Structural metatdata - this indicates how compound objects are put together, for example, how pages are ordered to form chapters.
- Administrative metadata - this provides information to help manage a resource, such as when and how it was create, file type and other technical information.
- Title
- Author
- Publisher
- Number of pages
- Genre
- date published
The images below show the metadata, in some of the pictures the metadata cannot be seen as the post it notes are very small but I assure you that all book have been processed and all of the information about the elements above have been noted down.
Books with there metadata |
Title - The wicked heart
Author - Christopher Pike
Publisher - Hodders children's books
No. pages - 244
Genre - Horror
Date - 1993
The book, the wicked heart. |
Two more books with metadata information |
three books with metadata |
If these were online documents then this metadata would be used to help find them in search engines such as Google, the user could simply enter the title and all of the relevant information with these keywords in there metadata will be shown to the user.
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