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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:9780081003855
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eBook ISBN:9780081004012
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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 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
Researchers and Information Professionals
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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Getaneh Alemu
Dr Getaneh Alemu is an Information Professional and Researcher who is currently working as a Cataloguing and Metadata Librarian at Southampton Solent University, United Kingdom. He has worked and studied in higher education for more than 15 years in Ethiopia, Belgium, Norway, Estonia and the United Kingdom. He worked as a lecturer and Head University Librarian in Mekelle University, Ethiopia. He also worked as a research assistant on a digital preservation project at the University of Portsmouth. Getaneh’s research focus includes Metadata, Digital Libraries, Open Access, Linked Data and Web 2.0 technologies.
Affiliations and expertise
Cataloguing and Metadata Librarian, Southampton Solent University, UK
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Brett Stevens
Dr Brett Stevens is a Principal Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Programmes for the School of Creative Technologies, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. After joining Portsmouth in 2001, teaching multimedia production, virtual reality and research methods at Masters level, Brett has since become Faculty Research Degrees Coordinator for the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries. His research focuses on user interaction, with a focus on Augmented and Virtual Reality, Computer Games and Computer Animation. He is a Member of the British Computing Society and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Affiliations and expertise
Principal Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Programmes,School of Creative Technologies, University of Portsmouth, UK
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