Rachel Ivy Clarke

TL;DR: The current affordances and limitations of video game genre from a library and information science perspective with an emphasis on classification theory are explored and various purposes of genre relating to video games are identified, including identity, collocation and retrieval, commercial marketing, and educational instruction.

TL;DR: The development of a more complex and sophisticated scheme consisting of 12 facets and 358 foci for describing and representing video game genre information that provides a framework for improved intellectual access to video games along multiple dimensions is described.

TL;DR: This paper describes how the schema was established from a user-centered design approach and introduces the core elements from the authors' schema, and discusses the challenges it encountered as it was conducting a domain analysis and cataloging real-world examples of video games.

TL;DR: The metadata schema was extensively revised based on the evaluation results, and the new element definitions from the revised schema are presented in this article.

TL;DR: The design of information tools and services is an integral component of librarianship as mentioned in this paper, yet American librarianhip has self-identified as a social science for more than 100 years.