An Emergent Theory Of Digital Library Metadata: Enrich Then Filter

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 linking Metadata is a resource that should be linked openly The power of metadata is unlocked when enriched metadata is filtered for users individually

• | Author: Getaneh Alemu, Brett Stevens
• | Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• | Publication Date: Aug 19, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 134 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0081003854
• | ISBN-13: 9780081003855