Showing papers in "Journal of Library Metadata in 2018"
TL;DR: This paper will cover the development of the Illinois Data Bank’s metadata schema, including the team's decisions in balancing external and internal stakeholder requirements, finding solutions to challenges both foreseen and not, as well as future plans.
Abstract: In Summer 2016, the Illinois Data Bank, the new data repository at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was launched. This paper will cover the development of the repository’s metadata s...
9 citations
TL;DR: Data collections in Digital Commons are explored and a need for a standardized language in describing research data within Digital Commons Institutional Repositories is found.
Abstract: Digital Commons is a popular hosted solution for institutional repository creation in academic libraries. The platform enables libraries to create customized digital collections representative of their institutions, which can include research data. As increasing numbers of academic libraries seek to provide research data services to their communities, institutional repositories are used for archiving of research data. Digital Commons users are no exception. This article explores data collections in Digital Commons and evaluates their associated metadata. Digital Commons offers no standard metadata format for datasets. A review of data hosted in Digital Commons repositories found that there is a need for a standardized language in describing research data within Digital Commons Institutional Repositories.
8 citations
TL;DR: An audit of rights statements in the Illinois Digital Heritage Hub was performed to determine how standardized rights statements from RightsStatements.org can mitigate some of the issues surrounding information used in the rights field of metadata for digital objects.
Abstract: Describing copyright for cultural heritage objects in a rights statement can be a complicated undertaking when there is not enough information about the object. Similarly the complexity and misunde...
7 citations
TL;DR: This research introduces the term “revolutionary cataloging interface” to describe the characteristics of crowdsourced metadata creation portals: capable of being learned during a 10–15 minute tutorial, yet with demonstrated potential for producing robust and rich metadata with an impressive level of automated quality control.
Abstract: Experimental crowdsourced strategies pertaining to library resource description are becoming increasingly common. This research introduces the term “revolutionary cataloging interface” to describe the characteristics of crowdsourced metadata creation portals: capable of being learned during a 10–15 minute tutorial, requiring little or no previous cataloging experience, yet with demonstrated potential for producing robust and rich metadata with an impressive level of automated quality control. Focusing on a case study of Zooniverse’s Operation War Diary, this paper investigates, explains, and assesses the potential of such innovations to meet successfully the challenges posed by Hidden Collections.
5 citations
TL;DR: A distributed approach to convert legacy library data into RDF format using Apache Spark and Hadoop and the performance of the conversion process is improved in terms of processing time and the storage size.
Abstract: In recent years, the library domain has been using semantic web technologies to enable the data-centric information that can be processed directly by machines. Attempts have been evolved for data transitioning from MAchine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) formats into the Resource Description Framework (RDF). Storing library data in RDF format enhances interlinking and reusing of the resources on the web. Moreover, the machine can interpret library resources meaningfully because of rich source of semantics. Existing approaches rely on the single-node environment but they fail when they meet the large volume of the input data. Some of the bibliographic records in MARC 21 formats are huge in size that traditional data-management tools become incapable during data processing and requires larger storage area. Such data need serious attention by the systems that can perform tasks in parallel. In this article, we propose a distributed approach to convert legacy library data into RDF format using Apache Spark ...
3 citations
TL;DR: An examination of the origins of abstract elements demonstrates their identitarian tendencies and the effect on conceptual organization, and alternatives offered by negative dialectics and critical realism are explored toward a different model of information organization and retrieval.
Abstract: Descriptive metadata is affected by the challenge of using language that is resilient to semantic transformation over time. Yet, part of this is directly related to a bibliographic rift between abstract and concrete elements. By exploring the materiality of information objects and how descriptive values are subsequently derived, ideological formations and their impact become apparent. An examination of the origins of abstract elements demonstrates their identitarian tendencies and the effect on conceptual organization. Alternatives offered by negative dialectics and critical realism are explored toward a different model of information organization and retrieval.
3 citations
TL;DR: The findings show that Philippine academic librarians have mixed perceptions on RDA, as some of the respondents treat RDA as a feasible replacement or alternative for Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, while some are not quite sure of its compatibility with Philippine libraries.
Abstract: This article examines the perception of academic librarians regarding the arrival of Resource Description and Access (RDA) in the Philippines. Perception statements coming from various researches done on RDA were used to determine their sentiments toward RDA. The respondents were also asked to enumerate and explain their perceived advantages and disadvantages on RDA. In the end, 85 academic librarians from all over the Philippines responded. The findings show that Philippine academic librarians have mixed perceptions on RDA, as some of the respondents treat RDA as a feasible replacement or alternative for Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, while some are not quite sure of its compatibility with Philippine libraries.
1 citations
TL;DR: This study seeks to determine if libraries are displaying the content type, media type, carrier type (336/337/338) fields to the public in their library systems and if they are continuing to use GMDs in their records.
Abstract: This study seeks to determine if libraries are displaying the content type, media type, carrier type (336/337/338) fields to the public in their library systems and if they are continuing to use (g...
1 citations
TL;DR: An unsupervised method to fit a hierarchical categorization scheme to a corpus based on clustering the network of shared concepts in the corpus, or its “concept topology,” which best represents OA academic publishing as it exists today.
Abstract: Methods that are both computationally feasible and practically effective are needed to make sense of big corpuses of content, or “big content.” For example, supervised categorization techniques for...