It is intended for anyone needing an expedient tutorial on how to make a basic metadata record for a digital document. Particularly, this resource is intended for…

This book is designed as a quick introduction to authoring metadata using basic elements from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.

* Librarians and other information workers who don’t work primarily in technical services.

* Example metadata records for documents common to local historical societies.

* How-to guides on filling out each of Dublin Core’s basic elements.

* An introduction to a popular metadata standard, Dublin Core.

* Students in Library and Information Science.

* Historical society workers and volunteers.

* A basic introduction to metadata.

* Community archivists.