An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata

Table of contents

1. Cover image
2. Title page
3. Table of Contents
4. Copyright
5. Authors biography
6. Re-thinking library metadata
7. 1. Introduction
   1. The construction of metadata
   2. Metadata categories
   3. The continued relevance of metadata
8. 2. Existing standards-based metadata approaches and principles
   1. The principle of sufficiency and necessity
   2. The principle of user convenience
   3. The principle of representation
   4. The principle of standardisation
   5. Integration and interoperability
   6. Guiding assumptions for the principle of standardisation
   7. Controlled vocabularies
   8. A priori metadata
   9. Limitations of contemporary standards-based metadata approaches
   10. The future of metadata standards
   11. Summary
9. 3. The Web 2.0 paradigm and the emergence of socially-constructed metadata approaches
   1. Web 2.0 concepts
   2. Platform for two-way collaboration
   3. Users as co-creators
   4. The wisdom of crowds
   5. Variable participation
   6. Openness
   7. Post-hoc quality control
   8. Web 2.0 technologies and implications for libraries
   9. The case of Wikipedia versus encyclopaedia Britannica
   10. Limitations of the Web 2.0 paradigm
   11. The social construction of metadata
10. 4. The emergence of socially-constructed metadata in a mixed metadata approach
    1. The positioning of post-hoc metadata creation
    2. The potential benefit of involving users
    3. Current platforms proactive metadata co-creation
    4. Users as proactive metadata co-creators
    5. Metadata diversity
    6. Metadata scalability and variable metadata participation
    7. Metadata aggregation
    8. Network effect and wisdom of crowds
    9. Self-healing system
    10. Affixing provenance to metadata
    11. Collective metadata intelligence
    12. Motivation for socially-constructed metadata approaches
    13. Challenges to implementing socially-constructed metadata approaches
    14. Metadata quality control
    15. Towards a mixed metadata approach
11. 5. The principle of metadata enriching
    1. Metadata diversity
    2. Metadata granularity
    3. Platform for metadata enriching
12. 6. The principle of metadata linking
    1. Enriching via linking
    2. Current status of linking in libraries
    3. Resource usage patterns, zeitgeist and emergent metadata
    4. Facet-based navigations
    5. Metadata enriching with links
    6. Challenges to adopt linking technologies in libraries
    7. Re-conceptualising library metadata as granular metadata statements
    8. Unique metadata identifiers
    9. Integrating socially-constructed metadata
    10. Facilitate serendipitous discovery of information resources
    11. Summary
13. 7. The principle of metadata openness
    1. Improving institutional transparency and accountability
    2. Metadata sharing and return on investment
    3. Improved user experiences
    4. Degrees of metadata openness and metadata licensing
    5. Summary
14. 8. The principle of metadata filtering
    1. Emerging user preferences and convenience
    2. Searching, manual filtering and triangulation
    3. Contextualised and personalised post-hoc metadata filtering
    4. Personalisation and privacy
    5. Recommendation services
    6. Summary
15. 9. The theory of metadata enriching and filtering
    1. Integrating the four principles
    2. The theory of metadata enriching and filtering
    3. Separation of metadata content (enriching) and interface (filtering)
    4. Separation of about-ness from medium
    5. Enriching and filtering as a non-deterministic process
    6. From user-centred to user-driven metadata enriching and filtering
    7. Enriching as a continuous process
    8. Metadata diversity better conforming to users’ needs
    9. Seamless linking
    10. ‘Useful’ rather than ‘perfect’ metadata
    11. Post-hoc user-driven filtering
    12. Summary
16. Glossary
17. Abbreviations
18. References
19. Index