SPEC Kit 298: Metadata

Metadata is often called "data about data." It has been used by various communities creating geospatial data, social and scientific datasets, enterprise applications, data warehouses, educational resources, and bibliographic data. This SPEC survey investigated how metadata is implemented in ARL member libraries: which staff are creating metadata and for what kinds of digital objects, what schemas and tools they use to create and manage metadata, what skills metadata staff need and how they acquire them, and the organizational changes and challenges that metadata has brought to libraries.