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An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata
Enrich then Filter
- 1st Edition - August 8, 2015
- Authors: Getaneh Alemu, Brett Stevens
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 0 3 8 5 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 0 4 0 1 - 2
An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata is a reaction to the current digital library landscape that is being challenged with growing online collections and changing… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAn Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata is a reaction to the current digital library landscape that is being challenged with growing online collections and changing user expectations. The theory provides the conceptual underpinnings for a new approach which moves away from expert defined standardised metadata to a user driven approach with users as metadata co-creators. Moving away from definitive, authoritative, metadata to a system that reflects the diversity of users’ terminologies, it changes the current focus on metadata simplicity and efficiency to one of metadata enriching, which is a continuous and evolving process of data linking. From predefined description to information conceptualised, contextualised and filtered at the point of delivery. By presenting this shift, this book provides a coherent structure in which future technological developments can be considered.
- Metadata is valuable when continuously enriched by experts and users
- Metadata enriching results from ubiquitous linkin
- Metadata is a resource that should be linked openly
- The power of metadata is unlocked when enriched metadata is filtered for users individually
- Authors biography
- Re-thinking library metadata
- 1. Introduction
- The construction of metadata
- Metadata categories
- The continued relevance of metadata
- 2. Existing standards-based metadata approaches and principles
- The principle of sufficiency and necessity
- The principle of user convenience
- The principle of representation
- The principle of standardisation
- Integration and interoperability
- Guiding assumptions for the principle of standardisation
- Controlled vocabularies
- A priori metadata
- Limitations of contemporary standards-based metadata approaches
- The future of metadata standards
- Summary
- 3. The Web 2.0 paradigm and the emergence of socially-constructed metadata approaches
- Web 2.0 concepts
- Platform for two-way collaboration
- Users as co-creators
- The wisdom of crowds
- Variable participation
- Openness
- Post-hoc quality control
- Web 2.0 technologies and implications for libraries
- The case of Wikipedia versus encyclopaedia Britannica
- Limitations of the Web 2.0 paradigm
- The social construction of metadata
- 4. The emergence of socially-constructed metadata in a mixed metadata approach
- The positioning of post-hoc metadata creation
- The potential benefit of involving users
- Current platforms proactive metadata co-creation
- Users as proactive metadata co-creators
- Metadata diversity
- Metadata scalability and variable metadata participation
- Metadata aggregation
- Network effect and wisdom of crowds
- Self-healing system
- Affixing provenance to metadata
- Collective metadata intelligence
- Motivation for socially-constructed metadata approaches
- Challenges to implementing socially-constructed metadata approaches
- Metadata quality control
- Towards a mixed metadata approach
- 5. The principle of metadata enriching
- Metadata diversity
- Metadata granularity
- Platform for metadata enriching
- 6. The principle of metadata linking
- Enriching via linking
- Current status of linking in libraries
- Resource usage patterns, zeitgeist and emergent metadata
- Facet-based navigations
- Metadata enriching with links
- Challenges to adopt linking technologies in libraries
- Re-conceptualising library metadata as granular metadata statements
- Unique metadata identifiers
- Integrating socially-constructed metadata
- Facilitate serendipitous discovery of information resources
- Summary
- 7. The principle of metadata openness
- Improving institutional transparency and accountability
- Metadata sharing and return on investment
- Improved user experiences
- Degrees of metadata openness and metadata licensing
- Summary
- 8. The principle of metadata filtering
- Emerging user preferences and convenience
- Searching, manual filtering and triangulation
- Contextualised and personalised post-hoc metadata filtering
- Personalisation and privacy
- Recommendation services
- Summary
- 9. The theory of metadata enriching and filtering
- Integrating the four principles
- The theory of metadata enriching and filtering
- Separation of metadata content (enriching) and interface (filtering)
- Separation of about-ness from medium
- Enriching and filtering as a non-deterministic process
- From user-centred to user-driven metadata enriching and filtering
- Enriching as a continuous process
- Metadata diversity better conforming to users’ needs
- Seamless linking
- ‘Useful’ rather than ‘perfect’ metadata
- Post-hoc user-driven filtering
- Summary
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 134
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 8, 2015
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081003855
- eBook ISBN: 9780081004012
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