Metadata in Practice

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1	Building an Education Digital Library: GEM and Early Metadata 
Standards Adoption
	Stuart A. Sutton
Chapter 2	Building Heritage Colorado: The Colorado Digitization Experience
	Liz Bischoff and Elizabeth S. Meagher
Chapter 3	Museums and Metadata: A Shifting Paradigm
	Angela Spinazzé
Chapter 4	Eye of the Beholder: Challenges of Image Description and Access at 
Harvard
	Robin Wendler
Chapter 5	Building a Metadata-Sharing Campus: The University of Minnesota 
IMAGES Initiatives
	Charles F. Thomas	
Chapter 6	Cross-Walking Citation Metadata: The University of California's 
Experience
	Karen Coyle
Chapter 7	CanCore: Semantic Interoperability for Learning Object Metadata
Norm Friesen
Chapter 8	The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Metadata Development and Use
Linda L. Hill and Greg Janée
Chapter 9	Distributing and Synchronizing Heterogeneous Metadata in Geospatial 
Information Repositories for Access
Elaine L. Westbrooks
Chapter 10	The Internet Scout Project's Metadata Management Experience: Research, 
Solutions & Knowledge
Rachael Bower, David Sleasman, and Edward Almasy
Chapter 11	Lessons Learned from the Illinois OAI Metadata Harvesting Project
	Timothy W. Cole and Sarah L. Shreeves
Chapter 12	Community-Based Content Control
	Harriette Hemmasi
Chapter 13	Building an Open Language Archives Community on the DC Foundation
Steven Bird and Gary Simons
Chapter 14	Mixed Content and Mixed Metadata: Information Discovery in a Messy 
World
Caroline R. Arms and William Y. Arms
Chapter 15	The Continuum of METADATA Quality: Defining, Expressing, 
Exploiting
	Thomas R. Bruce and Diane I. Hillmann
Chapter 16	Metadata futures: steps towards semantic interoperability
Rachel Heery




Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Information organization, Metadata, Database management