Resolving the Confusion over Metadata-creation in Digital Archives

Pal, Jiban K. Resolving the Confusion over Metadata-creation in Digital Archives. Annals of Library and Information Studies (ISSN:0972-5423), 2016, vol. 63, n. 2, pp. 110-116. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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English abstract

Metadata is a growing concern in every sphere of information management, especially for libraries worldwide. This paper aims to present a bird’s-eye view on metadata creation, thus provide glimpses of diverse opinions in producing structured metadata consistently across the digital repositories. The paper dwells on a variety of practices having their own merits and arguments and draws attention to the responsibility of metadata creation, a fuzzy area. The paper argues that the best results could be achieved by integrating both automatic and manual efforts and suggested better possible ways of metadata creation.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Information management; Metadata engineering; Metadata creation; Strategic planning; Metadata quality; Automated extraction; Author-generated metadata; Metadata professional; Integrated system-design; Digital transformation; Digital repository.
Subjects: I. Information treatment for information services > IE. Data and metadata structures.
Depositing user: Dr. Jiban K. Pal
Date deposited: 13 Feb 2021 02:41
Last modified: 13 Feb 2021 02:41
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/41731

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