Toward an Emerging Principle of Linking Socially-Constructed Metadata

Alemu, Getaneh; Stevens, Brett; Ross, Penny; Chandler, Jane

doi:10.1080/19386389.2014.914775

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“…Socially constructed metadata will act as a value-added in retrieving knowledge artifacts with precision. 192 The addition of socially constructed and community-driven metadata in current metadata structures, controlled vocabularies, and classification systems provide the holistic view of these structures as they add the community-generated sense to the professionally-curated metadata structures. 193 An https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v37i4.10432…”

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

Ullah

Khusro

Ullah

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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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Section: The Socially Curated Metadata As Linked Datamentioning

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

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Khusro

Ullah

et al. 2018

ITAL

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“…This lack of subject expertise hampers subject assignation. Therefore, the likelihood that collaborating with the people who have the expertise, in this case authors, to contribute subject headings (Alemu et al, 2014) that would enhance access is great.…”

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The correct language of cataloguing local publications in East Africa

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the subject cataloguing of local publications and subject access to local publications. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative approach was used. Methods included interviews, document reviews and observations. Findings – Adherence to cataloguing standards takes precedence over subject access. Rarely is a user the focus of choice of the subject term in the process of cataloguing. The terms assigned to local publications are generally too broad and, at times, border on inappropriateness. The situation is exacerbated by a lack of documented cataloguing policies and a waning interest in cataloguing matters from the profession. Originality/value – This study is intended to benefit the librarians who provide subject representation to local publications by way of streamlining the process of subject cataloguing, hence, enhancing access to these uniquely held resources. The outcome of this study, hence, will provide insight in the process of cataloguing local publications. In addition, the findings of this study will benefit the teaching of subject cataloguing in library and information science programs. The findings from this study are expected to contribute to the body of library science by enabling a localized view to subject assignation. Ultimately, the significance of the study lies in its contribution to cataloguing education and research, especially with a perspective from Africa.

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Metadata Enrichment for Digital Heritage: Users as Co-Creators

Alemu

2018

International Information & Library Review

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Toward an Emerging Principle of Linking Socially-Constructed Metadata

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References 14 publications

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

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

The correct language of cataloguing local publications in East Africa

Metadata Enrichment for Digital Heritage: Users as Co-Creators

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