by Julie Zhu, Gary Pollack, Ruth Wells, and Matthew Llewellin.While publishers fully understand the benefits of providing standardized, accurate, and timely metadata, they face practical challenges. What may not be obvious to librarians and educators are the vast sums of money and time that publishers must spend on systems with flexible metadata schemas, metadata schema views, metadata policies and processes, quality controls, collaborative metadata editing and authoring tools, and user-friendly interface components. Despite the challenges, many publishers understand the ultimate benefits of quality metadata and are willing to make the commitment to provide improved metadata to the library community.
