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Article Information:
Title:
A metadata manager's role in collaborative projects: The Rutgers University Libraries experience
Author(s):
Li Sun
Journal:
Year:
2008
Volume:
Issue:
Page:
777 - 789
ISSN:
0264-0473
DOI:
10.1108/02640470810921574
Publisher:
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Acknowledgements:
The author wishes to thank Grace Agnew, the Associate University Librarian at Rutgers, for providing opportunities for her to work on New Jersey Digital Highway projects and metadata management. She is also grateful to Mary Beth Weber and Rhonda Marker, who provided great help in carrying out metadata creation and maintenance.
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Abstract:
Purpose – This paper seeks to discuss the roles and responsibilities of a metadata manager in collaborative digital projects.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the general requirements for metadata management, and introduces some scenarios in the practices of digital projects by the Rutgers University Libraries to support the generalized definition. A workflow of metadata management is illustrated.
Practical implications – With an explicit definition of the roles and responsibilities of the metadata manager, many other digital libraries that need to develop a new or optimize the existing workflow may find the Rutgers experience useful as a reference.
Originality/value – Very few papers have explored this topic, although the functions of metadata in the development of digital projects have been talked about extensively.
Keywords:
Cataloguing, Digital libraries, Work flow
Article Type:
Conceptual paper