<p>The third edition of this landmark textbook has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the many developments and changes in metadata and related domains. Authors Marcia Lei Zeng and Jian Qin provide a solid grounding in the variety and interrelationships among different metadata types, offering a comprehensive look at the metadata schemas that exist in the world of library and information science and beyond. Readers will gain knowledge and an understanding of key topics such as:</p><ul><li>metadata building blocks, from modeling to defining properties, from designing application profiles to implementing value vocabularies, and from specification generating to schema encoding, illustrated with new examples</li><li>best practices for metadata as linked data, the new functionality brought by implementing the linked data principles, and the importance of knowledge organization systems</li><li>resource metadata services, quality measurement, and interoperability approaches</li><li>resear