Sustaining Collection Value: Managing Collection/Item Metadata Relationships

Acknowledgements: This research is supported by a 2007 IMLS NLG Research & Demonstration grant hosted by the GSLIS Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS). Project documentation is available at http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu. We have benefited considerably from discussions with other DCC/CIMR project members and with participants in the IMLS DCC Metadata Roundtable, including: Timothy W. Cole, Thomas Dousa, Myung-Ja Han, Amy Jackson, Mark Newton , Sarah L. Shreeves, Michael Twidale, Oksana Zavalina

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