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The rapid growth of Internet resources and digital collections and libraries is accompanied by a proliferation of metadata schemas. Each metadata schema has been designed based on the requirements of the particular user community, intended users, type of materials, subject domain, the depth of description, etc. Problems arise when building large digital libraries or repositories with metadata records prepared according to diverse schemas. Most users do not and should not have to know or understand the underlying structure of the digital collection; but in reality, they are experiencing difficulties in resource discovery and access. How to enable a “one-stop” seamless search presents considerable challenges. This presentation reviews some of the methods that have been or are currently used to achieve or improve interoperability among metadata schemas...'Abstract'

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http://www.nlc.gov.cn/old/culc/paper/Lois%20Mai%20Chan...Metadata%20Interoperability-A%20Study%20of%20Methodology.pdf

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