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Understanding Metadata

Abstract

Understanding Metadata is a revision and expansion of Metadata Made Simpler: a guide for libraries published by NISO Press in 2001. NISO extends its thanks and appreciation to Rebecca Guenther and Jacqueline Radebaugh, staff members in the Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office, for sharing their expertise and contributing to this publication.

Please note that in 2017, NISO released an updated metdata primer.