Evaluating descriptive richness in Collection-Level Metadata

Journal of Library Metadata

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 263-292

  Zavalina, Oksana L ^a   Palmer, Carole L ^a   Jackson, Amy S ^a   Han, Myung Ja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Descriptive metadata; Federated digital collections; Metadata aggregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951864060     PISSN: 19386389     EISSN: 19375034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19386380802627109     Document Type: Article

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