The third edition of this landmark textbook has been thoroughly updatedto incorporate the many developments and changes in metadata and relateddomains. Authors Marcia Lei Zeng and Jian Qin provide a solid grounding in thevariety and interrelationships among different metadata types, offering acomprehensive look at the metadata schemas that exist in the world of libraryand information science and beyond. Readers will gain knowledge and anunderstanding of key topics such as: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 examplesbest practices for metadata as linked data, the new functionality brought by implementing the linked data principles, and the importance of knowledge organization systemsresource metadata services, quality measurement, and interoperability approachesresearch data management concepts like the FAIR principles, metadata publishing on the web and the recommendations by the W3C in 2017, related Open Science metadata standards such as Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) version 2, and metadata-enabled reproducibility and replicability of research datastandards used in libraries, archives, museums, and other information institutions, plus existing metadata standards' new versions, such as the EAD 3, LIDO 1.1, MODS 3.7, DC Terms 2020 release coordinating its ISO 15396-2:2019, and Schema.org's update in responding to the pandemicnewer, trending forces that are impacting the metadata domain, including entity management, semantic enrichment for the existing metadata, mashup culture such as enhanced Wikimedia contents, knowledge graphs and related processes, semantic annotations and analysis for unstructured data, and supporting digital humanities (DH) through smart data.Featuring newdevelopments driven by semantic technologies and digital data and information,with an accompanying website and supplementary learning materials, this remainsthe definitive primer on metadata for students, instructors, faculty, andprofessionals at all levels of experience.