8 March 2022
New edition of Zeng and Qin’s definitive metadata textbook out now from Facet Publishing
After winning the 2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award with their second edition, authors Marcia Lei Zeng and Jian Qin have thoroughly updated their much acclaimed text to incorporate the many developments and changes in metadata and related domains. In this third edition, Zeng and Qin provide a solid grounding in the variety and interrelationships among different metadata types, offering a comprehensive look at the metadata schemas that exist in the world of library and information science and beyond. Readers will gain knowledge and an understanding of key topics such as:
- Metadata building blocks
- Best practices for metadata as linked data
- Resource metadata services, quality measurement, and interoperability approaches
- Research data management concepts like the FAIR principles, metadata publishing on the web and the recommendations by the W3C in 2017, as well as DCAT version 2
- Standards used in libraries, archives, museums, and other information institutions, plus existing metadata standards’ new versions, such as the EAD 3, LIDO 1.1, MODS 3.7, DC Terms 2020 release coordinating its ISO 15396-2:2019, and Schema.org’s update in responding to the pandemic
- Newer, trending forces that are impacting the metadata domain, including entity management, semantic enrichment for the existing metadata, mashup culture such as enhanced Wikimedia contents, knowledge graphs and related processes, semantic annotations and analysis for unstructured data
Technical Services Quarterly said of the second edition: ‘I highly recommend this book to the instructor of metadata and information organization (or the serious student) as an essential desk reference; individual chapters and sections are completely appropriate for use as supplemental readings in a variety of courses where details about particular concepts related to metadata are required’
Featuring new developments driven by semantic technologies and digital data and information, with an accompanying website and supplementary learning materials, this remains the definitive primer on metadata for students, instructors, faculty, and professionals at all levels of experience.
The Special Collections Handbook, 3rd ed. by Alison Cullingford
The dynamic sector of collections development is constantly changing. In The Special Collections Handbook, 3rd ed. Alison Cullingford has updated her comprehensive desk reference to grapple with the most complex issues of the moment, including guidance on decolonising special collections, the drive towards zero-carbon preservation, the lessons we can learn from COVID-19, as well as the ‘digital shift’ towards online and hybrid research and learning.
The third edition further expands its guidance on the essential principles, skills, and knowledge needed to manage special collections in any setting and covers all aspects of special collections work: preservation; developing collections; understanding objects; emergency planning; security; legal and ethical concerns; cataloguing; digitisation; marketing; outreach; teaching; impact; advocacy, and fundraising. It incorporates the new and revised standards in collections care, such as the new British Standards relating to collections care, BS EN 16893 and BS 4971, which replace PD5454
Alison Cullingford said ‘the book highlights the materials and formats most commonly encountered, from medieval manuscripts and early printed books to artists’ books and modern archives, and is relevant to all special collections practitioners, whether new professionals or ‘old hands’.
Wide-ranging and written in a highly accessible manner, The Special Collections Handbook, Third Edition will be an essential resource for staff working with special collections in a wide range of settings, including academia, public libraries, religious organisations, museums, and at scales from solo librarians to ‘nationals’
Both titles are available to order via Ingram Publisher Services UK