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Contents 1 Best Practices for Shareable Metadata 1.1 Introduction 1.2 General Recommendations 1.3 Recommendations for Classes of Data Elements 1.4 Best Practices for Technical Aspects of Metadata 1.5 Final Preparations

[edit] Best Practices for Shareable Metadata

A MS Word version of this document is available at: https://webservices.itcs.umich.edu/mediawiki/oaibp/sites/oaibp/uploads/f/f4/ShareableMetadataBestPractices.doc (August 2005)

[edit] Introduction

• Introduction

[edit] General Recommendations

• Metadata should be a shareable and appropriate representation of the resource
• Granularity of description
• Use of metadata formats in addition to simple Dublin Core is strongly encouraged
• Tips for crosswalking
• Describing versions and reproductions
• Linking from a record to a resource and other linking issues
• Providing supplemental information to service provider
• Expressing rights over metadata

[edit] Recommendations for Classes of Data Elements

• Titles
• Names
• Dates
• Subjects / Topics
• Language
• Geographic Places
• Identifiers
• Rights for Resources
• Bibliographic Citations
• Types of Resources

[edit] Best Practices for Technical Aspects of Metadata

• XML Namespaces and Schemas
• Character Encoding Issues

[edit] Final Preparations

• Final preparations