Abstract
As an increasing number of digital library projects embrace the harvesting of item-level descriptive metadata, issues of description granularity and concerns about potential loss of context when harvesting item-level metadata take on greater significance. Collection-level description can provide valuable context for item-level metadata records harvested from disparate and heterogeneous providers. This paper describes an ongoing experiment using collection-level description in concert with item-level metadata to improve quality of search and discovery across an aggregation of metadata describing resources held by a consortium of large academic research libraries. We present details of approaches implemented so far and preliminary analyses of the potential utility of these approaches. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of related issues and future work plans.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |
| Pages | 32-41 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 5th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - Digital Libraries: Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education - Denver, CO, United States Duration: Jun 7 2005 → Jun 11 2005 |
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| Other | 5th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - Digital Libraries: Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Denver, CO |
| Period | 6/7/05 → 6/11/05 |
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Keywords
- Collection-level description
- Descriptive metadata
- Metadata aggregation
- Open Archives Initiative
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Library and Information Sciences
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Using collection descriptions to enhance an aggregation of harvested item-level metadata. / Foulonneau, Muriel; Cole, Timothy W.; Habing, Thomas G.; Shreeves, Sarah.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. 2005. p. 32-41.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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