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More and more libraries, archives, and museums are creating online collections of digitized resources. Where can those charged with organizing these new collections turn for guidance on the actual practice of metadata design and creation? "Metadata for Digital Collections: A How-to-do-it Manual" is suitable for libraries, archives, and museums. This practical, hands-on volume will make it easy for readers to acquire the knowledge and skills they need, whether they use the book on the job or in a classroom. Author Steven Miller introduces readers to fundamental concepts and practices in a style accessible to beginners and LIS students, as well as experienced practitioners with little metadata training. He also takes account of the widespread use of digital collection management systems such as CONTENTdm. Rather than surveying a large number of metadata schemes, Miller covers only three of the schemes most commonly used in general digital resource description, namely, Dublin Core, MODS, and VRA. By limiting himself, Miller is able to address the chosen schemes in greater depth. He is also able to include numerous practical examples that clarify common application issues and challenges. He provides practical guidance on applying each of the Dublin Core elements, taking special care to clarify those most commonly misunderstood. The book includes a step-by-step guide on how to design and document a metadata scheme for local institutional needs and for specific digital collection projects. The text also serves well as an introduction to broader metadata topics, including XML encoding, mapping between different schemes, metadata interoperability and record sharing, OAI harvesting, and the emerging environment of Linked Data and the Semantic Web, explaining their relevance to current practitioners and students. Each chapter offers a set of exercises, with suggestions for instructors. A companion website includes additional practical and reference resources.

Information systems --- Library automation --- Metadata --- Digital libraries --- Collection management (Libraries) --- Cataloging of electronic information resources. --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Digital images --- Métadonnées --- Bibliothèques virtuelles --- Gestion des collections (Bibliothèques) --- Catalogage --- Systèmes d'information --- Images numériques --- Collection development. --- Développement des collections --- Sources d'information électroniques --- Collection development --- Métadonnées --- Bibliothèques virtuelles --- Gestion des collections (Bibliothèques) --- Systèmes d'information --- Images numériques --- Développement des collections --- Sources d'information électroniques --- Digital libraries - Collection development --- Metadata - Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Digital libraries - Handbooks, manuals, etc.

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Benford's law states that the leading digits of many data sets are not uniformly distributed from one through nine, but rather exhibit a profound bias. This bias is evident in everything from electricity bills and street addresses to stock prices, population numbers, mortality rates, and the lengths of rivers. Here, Steven Miller brings together many of the world's leading experts on Benford's law to demonstrate the many useful techniques that arise from the law, show how truly multidisciplinary it is, and encourage collaboration.Beginning with the general theory, the contributors explain the prevalence of the bias, highlighting explanations for when systems should and should not follow Benford's law and how quickly such behavior sets in. They go on to discuss important applications in disciplines ranging from accounting and economics to psychology and the natural sciences. The contributors describe how Benford's law has been successfully used to expose fraud in elections, medical tests, tax filings, and financial reports. Additionally, numerous problems, background materials, and technical details are available online to help instructors create courses around the book.Emphasizing common challenges and techniques across the disciplines, this accessible book shows how Benford's law can serve as a productive meeting ground for researchers and practitioners in diverse fields.

Distribution (Probability theory) --- Probability measures. --- 1938 paper. --- 2009 presidential elections. --- Benford analysis. --- Benford distribution. --- Benford property. --- Benford test. --- Benford's law geometry. --- Benford's law limit. --- Benford's law. --- Benford-good system. --- Eric Poehlman. --- European statistics. --- FSDs. --- Fourier analysis. --- Frank Benford. --- Fundamental Equivalence. --- Greek statistics. --- Iranian election. --- Iranian presidential elections. --- Lvy processes. --- PV effect. --- Partial Volume effect. --- Poisson Summation Formula. --- Poisson Summation. --- Simon Newcomb. --- Standard Condition. --- VAR. --- Value at Risk. --- accounting programs. --- accounting students. --- accounting. --- auditing. --- authentic data sets. --- behavioral approaches. --- bias. --- complaint data sets. --- computer systems. --- cumulative distribution. --- data sets. --- data-adaptive methods. --- decision-making research. --- densities. --- deterministic processes. --- digit bias. --- direct applications. --- econometric regression. --- economics. --- election fraud. --- elections. --- empirical economics research. --- empirical economics. --- error detection. --- explicit error bounds. --- explicit error estimates. --- exponential Lvy processes. --- finance. --- financial reports. --- financial statistics. --- first significant digits. --- first-digit analysis. --- first-digit frequency. --- fixed odds. --- forecasts. --- fraud detection. --- fraud. --- fraudulent data sets. --- functions. --- gambling. --- generic potential applications. --- geometry. --- government deficit. --- information-theoretic methods. --- local boostrap model. --- logarithms. --- lottery. --- macroeconomic data. --- managing risk. --- mathematical theory. --- meaningful numbers. --- medical tests. --- misreporting. --- natural data. --- natural sciences. --- non-uniformity. --- normalized functionals. --- number lottery games. --- numbers games. --- origins. --- parametric distributions. --- probability distributions. --- psychology. --- random processes. --- replication. --- scale invariance. --- scientific data sets. --- scientific misconduct. --- second digits. --- significand. --- significant digits. --- small number. --- social statistics. --- statistical relationship. --- statistics education. --- statistics. --- tampering. --- tax filing. --- tax fraud. --- total variation. --- uniform distribution. --- vote counts. --- voting.

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Benford's law states that the leading digits of many data sets are not uniformly distributed from one through nine, but rather exhibit a profound bias. This bias is evident in everything from electricity bills and street addresses to stock prices, population numbers, mortality rates, and the lengths of rivers. Here, Steven Miller brings together many of the world's leading experts on Benford's law to demonstrate the many useful techniques that arise from the law, show how truly multidisciplinary it is, and encourage collaboration.Beginning with the general theory, the contributors explain the prevalence of the bias, highlighting explanations for when systems should and should not follow Benford's law and how quickly such behavior sets in. They go on to discuss important applications in disciplines ranging from accounting and economics to psychology and the natural sciences. The contributors describe how Benford's law has been successfully used to expose fraud in elections, medical tests, tax filings, and financial reports. Additionally, numerous problems, background materials, and technical details are available online to help instructors create courses around the book.Emphasizing common challenges and techniques across the disciplines, this accessible book shows how Benford's law can serve as a productive meeting ground for researchers and practitioners in diverse fields.

Distribution (Probability theory) --- Probability measures. --- 1938 paper. --- 2009 presidential elections. --- Benford analysis. --- Benford distribution. --- Benford property. --- Benford test. --- Benford's law geometry. --- Benford's law limit. --- Benford's law. --- Benford-good system. --- Eric Poehlman. --- European statistics. --- FSDs. --- Fourier analysis. --- Frank Benford. --- Fundamental Equivalence. --- Greek statistics. --- Iranian election. --- Iranian presidential elections. --- Lvy processes. --- PV effect. --- Partial Volume effect. --- Poisson Summation Formula. --- Poisson Summation. --- Simon Newcomb. --- Standard Condition. --- VAR. --- Value at Risk. --- accounting programs. --- accounting students. --- accounting. --- auditing. --- authentic data sets. --- behavioral approaches. --- bias. --- complaint data sets. --- computer systems. --- cumulative distribution. --- data sets. --- data-adaptive methods. --- decision-making research. --- densities. --- deterministic processes. --- digit bias. --- direct applications. --- econometric regression. --- economics. --- election fraud. --- elections. --- empirical economics research. --- empirical economics. --- error detection. --- explicit error bounds. --- explicit error estimates. --- exponential Lvy processes. --- finance. --- financial reports. --- financial statistics. --- first significant digits. --- first-digit analysis. --- first-digit frequency. --- fixed odds. --- forecasts. --- fraud detection. --- fraud. --- fraudulent data sets. --- functions. --- gambling. --- generic potential applications. --- geometry. --- government deficit. --- information-theoretic methods. --- local boostrap model. --- logarithms. --- lottery. --- macroeconomic data. --- managing risk. --- mathematical theory. --- meaningful numbers. --- medical tests. --- misreporting. --- natural data. --- natural sciences. --- non-uniformity. --- normalized functionals. --- number lottery games. --- numbers games. --- origins. --- parametric distributions. --- probability distributions. --- psychology. --- random processes. --- replication. --- scale invariance. --- scientific data sets. --- scientific misconduct. --- second digits. --- significand. --- significant digits. --- small number. --- social statistics. --- statistical relationship. --- statistics education. --- statistics. --- tampering. --- tax filing. --- tax fraud. --- total variation. --- uniform distribution. --- vote counts. --- voting.

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