Metadata in practice / Diane I. Hillmann, Elaine L. Westbrooks, [editors].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Building an Education Digital Library: GEM and Early Metadata Standards Adoption / Stuart A. Sutton -- Building Heritage Colorado: The Colorado Digitization Experience / Liz Bishoff and Elizabeth S. Meagher -- Museums and Metadata: A Shifting Paradigm / Angela Spinazzè -- Eye of the Beholder: Challenges of Image Description and Access at Harvard / Robin Wendler -- Building a Metadata-Sharing Campus: The University of Minnesota IMAGES Initiatives / Charles F. Thomas -- Crosswalking Citation Metadata: The University of California's Experience / Karen Coyle -- CanCore: Semantic Interoperability for Learning Object Metadata / Norm Friesen -- The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Metadata Development and Use / Linda L. Hill and Greg Janěe -- Distributing and Synchronizing Heterogeneous Metadata in Geospatial Information Repositories for Access / Elaine L. Westbrooks --

The Internet Scout Project's Metadata Management Experience: Research, Solutions and Knowledge / Rachael Bower, David Sleasman, and Edward Almasy -- Lessons Learned from the Illinois OAI Metadata Harvesting Project / Timothy W. Cole and Sarah L. Shreeves -- Community-Based Content Control / Harriette Hemmasi -- Building an Open Language Archives Community on the DC Foundation / Steven Bird and Gary Simons -- Mixed Content and Mixed Metadata: Information Discovery in a Messy World / Caroline R. Arms and William Y. Arms -- The Continuum of METADATA Quality: Defining, Expressing, Exploiting / Thomas R. Bruce and Diane I. Hillmann -- Metadata futures: steps towards semantic interoperability / Rachel Heery.