Information Resource Description: Creating and Managing Metadata

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This new edition of Information Resource Description offers a fully updated and expanded overview of the field of information organization, examining the description of information resources as both a product and process of the contemporary digital environment. Through this unifying framework, the book provides an integrated commentary of the various fields and practices of information organization carried out by today's information professionals and end-users. Key topics and updates to the first edition include discussion of Big Data vs. the traditional database model; introduces and applies the FRBR-LRM user tasks; expanded coverage of scholarly repositories and questions around Open Acce…