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 |
Other
Other | 5th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - Digital Libraries: Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Denver, CO |
Period | 6/7/05 → 6/11/05 |
Keywords
- Collection-level description
- Descriptive metadata
- Metadata aggregation
- Open Archives Initiative
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Library and Information Sciences