A renaissance in library metadata? The importance of community collaboration in a digital world

Bull, Sarah; Quimby, Amanda

doi:10.1629/uksg.302

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“…The evolution of institutional repositories as well as discipline-based repositories for research data have been discussed a lot in the literature recently (Gregg 2019). Many organizations with institutional repositories have spent a lot of resources reviewing their workflows for populating their repositories with data and metadata (Jennings 2017, Bull 2016. The expansion of repositories has also to do with the intensive development of open data and research data management during the last years (Kratz 2015, Leonelli 2016, Harvey 2017.…”

Section: Methods Of Data Entry Into Repository Systemsmentioning

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An international, multi-stakeholder survey about metadata awareness, knowledge, and use in scholarly communications

Kaiser

Urberg²,

Johnsson

et al. 2021

Quantitative Science Studies

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The Metadata 2020 initiative is an ongoing effort to bring various scholarly communications stakeholder groups together to promote principles and standards of practice to improve the quality of metadata. To understand the perspectives and practices regarding metadata of the main stakeholder groups (librarians, publishers, researchers, and repository managers), we conducted a survey during summer 2019. The survey content was generated by representatives from the stakeholder groups. A link to an online survey (17 or 18 questions depending on the group) was distributed through multiple social media, listserv, and blog outlets. Responses were anonymous, with an optional entry for names and email addresses for those who were willing to be contacted later. Complete responses (N = 211; 87 librarians, 27 publishers, 48 repository managers, and 49 researchers) representing 23 countries on four continents were analyzed and summarized for thematic content and ranking of awareness and practices. Across the stakeholder groups, the level of awareness and usage of metadata methods and practices was highly variable. Clear gaps across the groups point to the need for consolidation of schema and practices, as well as broad educational efforts to increase knowledge and implementation of metadata in scholarly communications.

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Section: Methods Of Data Entry Into Repository Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An international, multi-stakeholder survey about metadata awareness, knowledge, and use in scholarly communications

Kaiser

Urberg²,

Johnsson

et al. 2021

Quantitative Science Studies

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“…The "supply chain" of metadata is best elaborated in the literature by studies that examine stakeholders' relationships with one another. Bull and Quimby (2016) and Bascones and Staniforth (2018), for example, focus on librarians and end users at libraries. They profile problems that arise when libraries take in poor metadata from publishers and service providers and also elaborate challenges that libraries face in managing metadata for thousands of electronic resources.…”

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“…Metadata takes many forms and is most easily grasped by those with expertise, making it "difficult for those working with specific metadata in specific local environments to see how they can influence the bigger metadata workflow" (Bascones and Staniforth 2018, p. 3). The desire to speak to all parties which interact with metadata may guide literature in the future, as represented by this call from Bull and Quimby (2016): "Can we present a clear business case for engagement with metadata that speaks to all individual stakeholdersaround discovery, usage, best value, impact, and relationship management? These should be central values to all of us regardless of whether we are a cost centre or a revenue business" (p. 152).…”

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A literature review of scholarly communications metadata

Gregg¹,

Erdmann²,

Paglione³

et al. 2019

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The purpose of this literature review is to identify the challenges, opportunities, and gaps in knowledge with regard to the use of metadata in scholarly communications. This paper compiles and interprets literature in sections based on the professional groups, or stakeholders, within scholarly communications metadata: researchers, funders, publishers, librarians, service providers, and data curators. It then ends with a 'bird's eye view' of the metadata supply chain which presents the network of relationships and interdependencies between stakeholders. This paper seeks to lay the groundwork for new approaches to present problems in scholarly communications metadata. KeywordsScholarly communication, metadata, metadata supply chain, research data management, Metadata 2020 ‡ § | ¶ # This review assumes at least a basic knowledge of how metadata records are created, shared, and used. Nevertheless, two core terms are defined below to frame the discussion.Scholarly communication is the process by which research is conducted, transformed into content, and distributed to a wider audience. The majority of the resources featured in this literature review are concerned with the physical and life sciences. The implications of this review, however, can be extended in many cases to the social sciences and humanities which have the same need to describe and share scholarly works. The majority of resources also treat the published journal article as the primary form of scholarly output, though emerging literature increasingly focuses on research data and the research process as opposed to finalized articles.Metadata in this context is the information that accompanies the various stages and outputs of research. Common to most scholarly research are metadata elements such as author, date, title, subject, language, and standard identifier. In the case of research data, metadata describes specialized aspects such as the geographic location where the data was collected, the name and identifier of the research funder, the institutional affiliation of the researchers, contributors such as editors and data curators, or the number of the grant award funding the research (DataCite Metadata Working Group 2016). Metadata for journal article includes identifiers such as the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN, the numeric identifier assigned to journals), volume, issue, page numbers, or epub identifier. In the case of monographs (books), specialized metadata includes the International Standard Book Number (ISBN), title, page number, and author of individual chapters. These and other metadata elements are essential for disseminating research outputs. Metadata gives proper credit to research funders, ensures that research can be reproduced, facilitates others in finding research, allows authors to build a portfolio, and measures the scholarly impact of an article. StakeholdersPublishers, service providers, researchers, funders, librarians, and data curators are the stakeholders of metadata in scholarly communication. The relationships ...

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“…31 Besides its limitations, MARC metadata encoding format is vital for resource discovery especially within the library environment, and therefore, ways must be found to make visible the library collections outside the libraries and available through the major web search engines. 32 One such effort is from the Library of Congress (http://catalog.loc.gov/) that introduced a new bibliographic metadata framework, BIBFRAME 2.0, which will eventually replace MARC21 and allow Semantic Web and Linked Open Data to interlink bibliographic metadata from different libraries. Other metadata encoding schema and frameworks include Schema.org, EDM, and the International Community for Documentation (CIDOC)'s Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC-CRM).…”

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An Overview of the Current State of Linked and Open Data in Cataloging

Ullah

Khusro

Ullah

et al. 2018

ITAL

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Linked Open Data (LOD) is a core Semantic Web technology that makes knowledge and information spaces of different knowledge domains manageable, reusable, shareable, exchangeable, and interoperable. The LOD approach achieves this through the provision of services for describing, indexing, organizing, and retrievingknowledge artifacts and making them available for quick consumption and publication. Thisis also alignedwith the role and objective of traditional library cataloging. Owing to this link, majorlibraries of the world are transferring their bibliographic metadata to the LOD landscape. Some developments in this direction include the replacement of Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2nd Edition by the Resource Description and Access (RDA) and the trend towards the wideradoption of BIBFRAME 2.0. An interestingand related development in this respect arethe discussions among knowledge resources managers and library community on the possibility of enriching bibliographic metadata with socially curated or user-generated content. The popularity of Linked Open Data and its benefit to librarians and knowledge management professionals warrant a comprehensive survey of the subject. Althoughseveral reviews and survey articles on the application of Linked Data principles to cataloging have appeared in literature, a generic yet holistic review of the current state of Linked and Open Data in cataloging is missing. To fill the gap, the authors have collected recent literature (2014–18) on the current state of Linked Open Data in cataloging to identify research trends, challenges, and opportunities in this area and, in addition, to understand the potential of socially curated metadata in cataloging mainlyin the realm of the Web of Data. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this review article is the first of its kind that holistically treats the subject of cataloging in the Linked and Open Data environment. Some of the findings of the review are: Linked and Open Data is becoming the mainstream trend in library cataloging especially in the major libraries and research projects of the world; with the emergence of Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV), the bibliographic metadata is becoming more meaningful and reusable; and, finally, enriching bibliographic metadata with user-generated content is gaining momentum.Conclusions drawn from the study include the need for a focus on the quality of catalogued knowledge and the reduction of the barriers to the publication and consumption of such knowledge, and the attention on the part of library community to the learning from the successful adoption of LOD in other application domains and contributing collaboratively to the global scale activity of cataloging.

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A renaissance in library metadata? The importance of community collaboration in a digital world

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An international, multi-stakeholder survey about metadata awareness, knowledge, and use in scholarly communications

An international, multi-stakeholder survey about metadata awareness, knowledge, and use in scholarly communications

A literature review of scholarly communications metadata

An Overview of the Current State of Linked and Open Data in Cataloging

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