@conference {palmer_trends_2007,
	title = {Trends in Metadata Practices: A Longitudinal Study of Collection Federation},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries},
	series = {{JCDL} {\textquoteright}07},
	year = {2007},
	note = {00022},
	pages = {386{\textendash}395},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
	abstract = {In this piece, Palmer, Zavalina, and Mustafoff discuss the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project, which was designed to promote the development of shareable collection metadata. Palmer, Zavalina, and Mustafoff conducted an empirical study of the metadata practice across a variety of institutions. This study was longitudinal: collecting survey results in 2003 and 2006. Palmer, Zavalina, and Mustafoff focused on issues of interoperability, access, and organization in their surveys. Their results included the identification of top metadata problems, popular metadata schemes, and intended audiences. While the findings in their study was vast, Palmer, Zavalina, and Mustafoff encourage more scholars to take on this type of work because there is so much to be learned about the user community. },
	keywords = {aggregated services, descriptive metadata, federated digital collections, interoperability, metadata schemes, {IMLS} digital collections and content project},
	isbn = {978-1-59593-644-8},
	doi = {10.1145/1255175.1255251},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1255175.1255251},
	author = {Palmer, Carole L. and Zavalina, Oksana L. and Mustafoff, Megan}
}