Benefits of Metadata Management
•Cultural
–Enhances communication
–Involves many in furthering the library’s mission
–Treats metadata as a shared resource
•Functional
–Enables easy location of metadata tools created throughout the library
–Minimizes the creation of redundant components
–Increases productivity among metadata and IT practitioners
–Accelerates development of new metadata applications
–Improves likelihood that new mappings and transformation tools will be easily integrated into the existing metadata environment.
There are a number of benefits of applying data resource management principles to library operations.

Culturally, pulling metadata tools into one place will help to improve communication between librarians—they will know what each other is doing. In addition, because many people who have previously been working on digital library projects will be involved in pulling this disparate metadata together, a many of those in the organization will be a part of an activity that help the organization succeed. Lastly, people involved in pulling together metadata into one place will begin to see this library resource as one that is shared throughout the organization.

Functionally, creating a metadata management design will help library staff to more easily locate metadata tools generated in other parts of the library, thus minimizing the creation of redundant metadata tools. This in turn will result in more productivity among metadata and IT practitioners, which will in turn result in faster development of new metadata applications. In addition, the new applications that are developed will be more easily integrated into the existing metadata environment. All this will result in increased organizational success.