An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata
Enrich then Filter

This book is a reaction to the current digital library landscape that is being challenged with growing online collections and changing user expectations

Getaneh Alemu (Author), Brett Stevens (Author)

9780081003855, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 19 August 2015

134 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1 cm, 0.19 kg

"Alemu and Stevens’ main objective is to state a case for library systems that support the creation and use of socially constructed metadata as a diverse and contemporary addition to expert-created metadata." --LRTS

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.

• Chapter One: Overview of Standards-based Metadata Approaches
• Chapter Two: Changing Users’ Needs
• Chapter Three: The Web 2.0 Paradigm and the Emergence of Socially-Constructed Metadata Approaches
• Chapter Four: The Emergence of Socially-Constructed Metadata Approaches
• Chapter Five: The Principle of  Metadata Enriching
• Chapter Six: The Principle of  Metadata Linking
• Chapter Seven: The Principle of Metadata Openness
• Chapter Eight: The Principle of  Metadata Filtering
• Chapter Nine: The Emergence of a Theory of Metadata Enriching and Filtering
• Chapter Ten: Implications of the Emergent Theory of Metadata Enriching and Filtering
• Conclusion and Future Research

Subject Areas: IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries [GLF], Library & information sciences [GL]