Jia Liu, a teacher in the Department of Information Management, Peking University, China, is currently a visiting scholar on the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.

"...the book will serve as an excellent snapshot of the library metadata landscape in the early years of this century." - Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

• Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abstract in English Part 1: Metadata in General Chapter 1: Metadata Basics Chapter 2: Metadata Types Chapter 3: Metadata Encoding Standards Chapter 4: Metadata Implementation Part 2: Metadata Projects and Its Applications in the Digital Library Chapter 5: Metadata Projects Chapter 6: Metadata Applications in the Digital Library Appendix: GILS Data Elements and Corresponding USMARC Tags References Index

Jia Liu, a teacher in the Department of Information Management, Peking University, China, is currently a visiting scholar on the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.

"...the book will serve as an excellent snapshot of the library metadata landscape in the early years of this century." - Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

• Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abstract in English Part 1: Metadata in General Chapter 1: Metadata Basics Chapter 2: Metadata Types Chapter 3: Metadata Encoding Standards Chapter 4: Metadata Implementation Part 2: Metadata Projects and Its Applications in the Digital Library Chapter 5: Metadata Projects Chapter 6: Metadata Applications in the Digital Library Appendix: GILS Data Elements and Corresponding USMARC Tags References Index

Jia Liu, a teacher in the Department of Information Management, Peking University, China, is currently a visiting scholar on the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.

"...the book will serve as an excellent snapshot of the library metadata landscape in the early years of this century." - Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

• Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abstract in English Part 1: Metadata in General Chapter 1: Metadata Basics Chapter 2: Metadata Types Chapter 3: Metadata Encoding Standards Chapter 4: Metadata Implementation Part 2: Metadata Projects and Its Applications in the Digital Library Chapter 5: Metadata Projects Chapter 6: Metadata Applications in the Digital Library Appendix: GILS Data Elements and Corresponding USMARC Tags References Index