An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata
Enrich then Filter
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Library & Information Services, Reference
| Author: | Getaneh Alemu, Brett Stevens | ISBN: | 9780081004012 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Science | Publication: | August 8, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Chandos Publishing | Language: | English |
| Author: | Getaneh Alemu, Brett Stevens |
| ISBN: | 9780081004012 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Science |
| Publication: | August 8, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Chandos Publishing |
| Language: | English |
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
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
