Title :
Learning from artifacts: metadata utilization analysis
Author :
Moen, William E. ; Miksa, Shawne D. ; Eklund, Amy ; Polyakov, Serhiy ; Snyder, Gregory
Author_Institution :
Texas Center for Digital Knowledge, North Texas Univ., Denton, TX
Abstract :
Describes the MARC content designation utilization project, which is examining a very large set of metadata records as artifacts of the library cataloging enterprise. This is the first large-scale examination of descriptive metadata utilization. Presents an overview of study activities and suggests the study´s significance to the broader use of metadata in digital libraries
Keywords :
bibliographic systems; cataloguing; digital libraries; meta data; descriptive metadata record utilization analysis; digital library; library cataloging enterprise; machine-readable catalog bibliographic record content designation utilization project; Anthropometry; Data structures; Encoding; Human factors; Information retrieval; Large-scale systems; Resource management; Software libraries; Storage automation; MARC records; library cataloging; metadata utilization;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries, 2006. JCDL '06. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chapel Hill, NC
Print_ISBN :
1-59593-354-9
DOI :
10.1145/1141753.1141813
