Metadata: a current view of practice and issues

TLDR

Emerging metadata practice and standards are described. The authors review the environments where metadata is applied, present a typology of approaches, and examine trends in format development, management, and search/retrieval protocols. The study concludes that future metadata deployment will enhance network resource discovery.

Abstract

This paper describes emerging metadata practice and standards. It gives an overview of the environments in which metadata is used, before focusing on metadata for information resources. It outlines an approximate typology of approaches and explores different strands of metadata activity. It discusses trends in format development, metadata management, and use of search and retrieve protocols. It concludes by discussing some features of future deployment of metadata in support of network resource discovery.