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31 March 2007

Metadata Across Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Category: Clippings

From Current Cites (March 2007):

Elings, Mary W., and Gunter Waibel. “Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives, and Museums” First Monday 12(3)(March 2007). - This informative article begins by describing a conceptual model that precisely identifies and describes the key components of any metadata standard: data fields and structure, data content and values, data format, and data exchange. Using these concepts, the authors then construct a grid for appropriate metadata standards from the museum, library, and archival communities in each of these areas. By classifying standards from these communities using their conceptual model, they hope to make the soup of acronyms more understandable. The grid also serves to demonstrate how related these different communities are in their needs for the same types of metadata standards. The piece also provides a brief history of metadata standards in each community and takes a look at recent trends. The authors end with an assertion that the three areas would be more productively depicted as “cultural materials, bibliographic, and archival” to indicate that museums, for example, may find use for bibliographic metadata standards and vice versa. - RT

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