All you need to know about Metadata
This guide provides an understanding and briefly explore the questions:
1.What is metadata?
2.What is metadata used for?
3.What is the metadata creation process?
Metadata facilitates the use and supports resource discovery. Information can be accessed and used easily, by more than one user simultaneously.
Metadata is everywhere. As Jenn Riley observes in her primer, Understanding Metadata (NISO, 2017), "Metadata are pervasive in information systems and come in many forms". Metadata is key to the functionality of the systems holding the content, enabling users to find items of interest, record essential information about them, and share that information with others."
This guide deals with metadata as it is created within a library.
