Metadata quality in digital repositories: A survey of the current state of the art

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 47, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 213-228

  Park, Jung Ran ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

(semi) automatic metadata generation; Accuracy; Completeness; Consistency; Digital repositories; Metadata; Metadata guidelines; Metadata quality evaluation; Quality control

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350041234     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01639370902737240     Document Type: Article

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