Get the latest research, innovations, news, and expert views about metadata applications and the role of metadata in information retrieval

Libraries are a unique realm for metadata users, with distinct needs and design specifications for metadata applications. The Journal of Library Metadata--retitled from the Journal of Internet Cataloging to reflect a wider focus--is the exclusive forum for the latest research, innovations, news, and expert views about all aspects of metadata applications in libraries and about the role of metadata in information retrieval. This focused journal comprehensively discusses practical, applicable information that libraries can effectively use in their own information discovery environments. Specialized knowledge, the latest technology, and top research are presented pertaining specifically to evolving metadata use in libraries.

The Journal of Library Metadata provides three basic categories of articles. The journal will provide top-quality traditional, peer-reviewed articles of importance to metadata users. The second category includes shorter, scholarly, non-peer reviewed articles providing descriptions of innovative new applications or developments, brief research on a narrow topic, and/or descriptions of problems and solutions pertaining to specific or general metadata applications. The third category are viewpoint articles providing upbeat, critical analyses on topics related to library metadata applications which point out the strengths and weaknesses of particular metadata applications, content standards, etc., designating a preferred direction for improved applications of metadata technology.

Topics for articles covered by the Journal of Library Metadata include:

• application profiles
• best practices
• controlled vocabularies
• crosswalking of metadata and interoperability
• digital libraries and metadata
• display of search results
• federated repositories
• federated searching
• folksonomies
• individual metadata schemes
• institutional repository metadata
• metadata content standards
• metadata harvesting
• ontologies
• preservation metadata
• resource description framework
• resource discovery and metadata
• search engines and metadata
• SKOS
• stochastic vs. deterministic searching
• tagging and tag clouds
• topic maps
• visual image and moving image metadata