Using collection descriptions to enhance an aggregation of harvested item-level metadata

Muriel Foulonneau; Timothy W. Cole; Thomas G. Habing; Sarah Shreeves

doi:10.1145/1065385.1065393

Using collection descriptions to enhance an aggregation of harvested item-level metadata

Muriel Foulonneau, Timothy W. Cole, Thomas G. Habing, Sarah Shreeves

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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)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Pages	32-41
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1065385.1065393
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
Country	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

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Foulonneau, M, Cole, TW, Habing, TG & Shreeves, S 2005, Using collection descriptions to enhance an aggregation of harvested item-level metadata. in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. pp. 32-41, 5th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - Digital Libraries: Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education, Denver, CO, United States, 6/7/05. https://doi.org/10.1145/1065385.1065393

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