Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction, Aims and Definitions
1.1 Origins
1.2 From information science to libraries
1.3 The central place of metadata
1.4 The book in outline
2 Metadata Basics
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Three types of metadata
2.2.1 Descriptive metadata
2.2.2 Administrative metadata
2.2.3 Structural metadata
2.3 The core components of metadata
2.3.1 Syntax
2.3.2 Semantics
2.3.3 Content rules
2.4 Metadata standards
2.5 Conclusion

3 Planning a Metadata Strategy: Basic Principles
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Principle 1: Support all stages of the digital curation lifecycle
3.3 Principle 2: Support the long-term preservation of the digital object
3.4 Principle 3: Ensure interoperability
3.5 Principle 4: Control metadata content wherever possible
3.6 Principle 5: Ensure software independence
3.7 Principle 6: Impose a logical system of identifiers
3.8 Principle 7: Use standards whenever possible
3.9 Principle 8: Ensure the integrity of the metadata itself

3.10 Summary: the basic principles of a metadata strategy
4 Planning a Metadata Strategy: Applying the Basic Principles
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Initial steps: standards as a foundation
4.2.1 'Off-the shelf' standards
4.2.2 Mapping out an architecture and serialising it into a standard
4.2.3 Devising a local metadata scheme
4.2.4 How standards support the basic principles
4.3 Identifiers: everything in its place
5 XML: The Syntactical Foundation of Metadata
5.1 Introduction
5.2 What XML looks like
5.3 XML schemas
5.4 Namespaces
5.5 Creating and editing XML

5.6 Transforming XML
5.7 Why use XML?
6 METS: The Metadata Package
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Why use METS?
6.3 The METS architecture
6.4 Identifiers within METS
6.5 The METS root element
6.6 The METS Header
6.7 Descriptive Metadata Section
6.8 Administrative Metadata Section
6.9 The File Section
6.10 The Structural Map
6.11 Structural Links and Behavior Section
6.12 Creating and using METS in practice
7 Descriptive Metadata: Semantics
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Dublin Core
7.3 MODS
the Metadata Object Description Schema
7.4 MARCXML

7.5 Other descriptive metadata standards
7.5.1 VRA Core
7.5.2 Text Encoding Initiative P5 Manuscript Description
7.5.3 Schemas from the sciences and social sciences
7.5.4 Using these schemas
7.6 Descriptive metadata: from semantics to content rules
8 Descriptive Metadata: Content Rules
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Why content rules are needed
8.3 Cataloguing rules
8.3.1 Established standards for cataloguing rules
8.4 Devising local guidelines
8.5 Controlled vocabularies
8.5.1 Name authorities
8.5.2 Subjects
8.5.3 Codes and dates