Digital Scholarship@UNLV

Title

Survival of the Fittest: The Evolving Nature of Metadata Creation for Digital Collections

Authors

Silvia B. Southwick, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Amy Hunsaker, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Meeting name

American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition

Meeting location

Chicago, IL

Document Type

Poster

Publication Date

6-29-2013

Abstract

The evolving nature of metadata is exemplified through a pictorial timeline that expands over a decade, identifying the development of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries digital collections, the context of their development, and the various factors that emerged later on that have influenced revisions of metadata decisions.

Keywords

Digital libraries; Metadata

Disciplines

Cataloging and Metadata | Collection Development and Management | Library and Information Science

Comments

File: Poster

Attached File: Handout

Repository Citation

Southwick, S. B., Hunsaker, A. (2013, June). Survival of the Fittest: The Evolving Nature of Metadata Creation for Digital Collections. Presentation at American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition, Chicago, IL.

Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/libfacpresentation/111