Metadata Best Practices in Web Content Management Systems

Abstract

The author reports the results of a survey of cataloging, metadata, and Web content specialists across a spectrum of libraries, regarding their application of metadata to content within their Web Content Management Systems. Practices, workflows, and barriers to successful implementation of metadata strategies are addressed. The text concludes with potential strategies for overcoming these barriers and linking the often uncataloged deep content in these systems to the linked open Web.

KEYWORDS:

• cataloging
• content management systems
• information architecture
• learning objects
• metadata
• web design