Showing papers in "Journal of Library Metadata in 2020"
TL;DR: Language archives are repositories of language data: material about or in a set of languages, including audio and video recordings, transcriptions, translations, and linguistic annotations.
Abstract: Language archives are repositories of language data: material about or in a set of languages, including audio and video recordings, transcriptions, translations, and linguistic annotations. Beyond ...
9 citations
TL;DR: The goals were to reveal possibilities for improving East Carolina University’s digital collections website, and to stimulate discussion in the metadata community about best practices in form/genre access for library digital collections.
Abstract: This paper provides an examination of how digital collections in academic libraries provide user access to items by form and/or genre. A review of the literature reveals that this is not an area th...
6 citations
TL;DR: This article positions tool selection and configuration as site of collaboration for thecreation of digital project metadata through its examination of a Google Forms-based workflow for the creation and organization of metadata.
Abstract: The usability and long-term preservation of digital humanities projects, such as a digital archive or other project built around digitized materials, depend on thoughtful and thorough metadata crea...
6 citations
TL;DR: This work includes how the DSpace is used for building a digital archiving system for museum and cultural resources and also shows the details steps of methodology to meet the experiences.
Abstract: This article highlights the practical experiences about the implementation of LIDO metadata schema in DSpace for managing museum and cultural resources. LIDO is a domain specific metadata schema fo...
4 citations
TL;DR: To determine how well the search terms individuals use to find datasets in a geospatial repository aligns with the terms used in metadata to describe those resources, query log analysis was used.
Abstract: The relation between user search behaviors and metadata is one that can illuminate ways in which the retrieval of resources may be facilitated or enhanced. The purpose of this article was to determ...
2 citations
TL;DR: This paper investigated RDA as a new standard for cataloguing as well as the challenges related to RDA implementation in libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa, as the literature evidence that many libraries in Africa are still using the AACR.
Abstract: Resource Description and Access (RDA) is a new cataloguing standard, designed for the digital world, built on foundations established by Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) and it is to replace...
2 citations
TL;DR: Efforts to increase the visibility of open access materials in the catalog of a major research library and improvements made are described.
Abstract: This article describes efforts to increase the visibility of open access materials in the catalog of a major research library. The authors describe their reasons for embarking on this work, improve...
2 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a developing method to automate authority control in-house (that is, without an outside vendor), especially for batch-loaded bibliographic records for electronic resources, is presented.
Abstract: This is a report on a developing method to automate authority control in-house (that is, without an outside vendor), especially for batch-loaded bibliographic records for electronic resources. A SQ...
1 citations
TL;DR: Current metadata schema, internet search engines and databases of scientific literature have an Anglo-American language and cultural bias and it is not possible to catalogue or index non-English literature.
Abstract: Current metadata schema, internet search engines and databases of scientific literature have an Anglo-American language and cultural bias While it is possible to catalogue or index non-English, no
1 citations
TL;DR: Findings are presented from a survey conducted in the fall of 2018, aimed at professionals from libraries, archives, and museums (LAM) who were part of the data modeling team on linked data projects to better understand the reality of ontology evaluation in the context of a linked data project.
Abstract: Ontology development and data modeling are core components of any linked data project. Through our own experiments building a linked data ontology for our collections, we wondered: how are our peer...
1 citations
TL;DR: This article proposed a framework to understand and review the present and possible RDA vocabularies in RDF after the 3'R Project, and also examined RDA Vocabularity under this framework to confirm t...
Abstract: This paper proposes a framework to understand and review the present and possible RDA Vocabularies in RDF after the 3 R Project, and also examines RDA Vocabularies under this framework to confirm t...