Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/19386389.2020.1907893
Amrollah Shamsi, Donna Frederick, R. BasirianJahromi
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, non-Latin script publications and achieve some degree of success in the retrieval of such information, librarians and researchers are often disappointed by inconsistencies in the accuracy of search results for this type of publication and frustrated by the limitations created by the biases embedded in the technology and schema. This paper is the result of a two-year dialog between a Farsi-speaking medical librarian in Iran and an English-speaking metadata librarian in Canada. They present the argument that a metadata schema which incorporates graphical images such as Emoji along with keyword indexing or a controlled vocabulary and new search engines which can make use of the new schema for Boolean searching is a robust potential solution for the difficulties they discussed. While this new information seeking environment that requires both the edition of a graphical facet to metadata schema and new search engines presents the potential to break down significant intercultural barriers, the authors recognize that this undertaking is more than a simple technological or procedural change but would require significant agreement between and work from librarians, standards bodies and researchers.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/19386389.2020.1809185
Madireng Monyela
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 the existing Anglo American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd Edition (AACR2). RDA provides a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types of content and media. It is based on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) in order to relate the user task of retrieval and access in an online library catalogue and biographic database from a user’s perspective. Bibliographic records in RDA are more relevant in an online environment by enabling catalogs to cluster related records to show different manifestations of the same work. Patrons could discover that the information sources they are seeking are available in different forms in the library. 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. Qualitative research approach based on document content analysis was used. Findings revealed that RDA is gradually implemented in Sub-Saharan Africa however, there are challenges related to power supply, internet connectivity, ICT skills, training, funding and LIS systems. The study recommends alternative power supply, other training options, development of consortia, among others.
{"title":"Challenges of Resource Description and Access (RDA) Implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Literature","authors":"Madireng Monyela","doi":"10.1080/19386389.2020.1809185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2020.1809185","url":null,"abstract":"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 the existing Anglo American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd Edition (AACR2). RDA provides a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types of content and media. It is based on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) in order to relate the user task of retrieval and access in an online library catalogue and biographic database from a user’s perspective. Bibliographic records in RDA are more relevant in an online environment by enabling catalogs to cluster related records to show different manifestations of the same work. Patrons could discover that the information sources they are seeking are available in different forms in the library. 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. Qualitative research approach based on document content analysis was used. Findings revealed that RDA is gradually implemented in Sub-Saharan Africa however, there are challenges related to power supply, internet connectivity, ICT skills, training, funding and LIS systems. The study recommends alternative power supply, other training options, development of consortia, among others.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"9 1","pages":"111 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90635550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/19386389.2020.1834093
Sinjini Mukherjee, Rajesh Das
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 for museum and cultural resources. Presently, library and information centers are not only building their digital institutional repository, but also museums, archiving centers are interesting to develop their digital archiving system. Before digital archiving, it is mandate to keep in mind that standard metadata schema should be provided for proper items or objects or resources for building digital archiving system for museum and cultural resources. DSpace is a popular system for building digital; institutional repositories. The DSpace uses general metadata schema i.e. Dublin Core metadata for generic resources. But it is very flexible to adopt a new metadata schema for building specific types of resources. 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.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/19386389.2020.1780689
E. Flynn, Janet H. Ahrberg
Abstract Academic libraries and graduate schools have a variety of workflows and practices for creating and disseminating metadata for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). A survey of United States academic institutions in the fall of 2017 addressed the lifecycle of ETDs and their metadata, including policy setting, metadata creation, and access. Participants from 137 institutions, both public and private, were sent the 23-question survey that contained a combination of qualitative and open-ended questions. This survey helped to identify trends and will expand the ETD literature with its comparison of policies, workflows and practices of ETD metadata.
{"title":"Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Metadata Policies, Workflows, and Practices: A Survey of the ETD Metadata Lifecycle at United States Academic Institutions","authors":"E. Flynn, Janet H. Ahrberg","doi":"10.1080/19386389.2020.1780689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2020.1780689","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Academic libraries and graduate schools have a variety of workflows and practices for creating and disseminating metadata for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). A survey of United States academic institutions in the fall of 2017 addressed the lifecycle of ETDs and their metadata, including policy setting, metadata creation, and access. Participants from 137 institutions, both public and private, were sent the 23-question survey that contained a combination of qualitative and open-ended questions. This survey helped to identify trends and will expand the ETD literature with its comparison of policies, workflows and practices of ETD metadata.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"41 1","pages":"91 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79341876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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, improvements made, and challenges they encountered.
{"title":"Increasing Visibility of Open Access Materials in a Library Catalog: Case Study at a Large Academic Research Library","authors":"J. Edmunds, Ana Enriquez","doi":"10.31229/osf.io/e5dvm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/e5dvm","url":null,"abstract":"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, improvements made, and challenges they encountered.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"18 1","pages":"127 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85325530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19386389.2020.1723203
Patricia M. Dragon
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 that has received much attention, despite an increased focus on digital collections metadata and on the user experience, as well as the development of form/genre vocabularies on the national scale, such as the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms (LCGFT). Over 100 North American digital collections websites were examined, and the results blended with data received from communications with parties responsible for digital collections metadata. The goals were to reveal possibilities for improving East Carolina University’s digital collections website, and additionally to stimulate discussion in the metadata community about best practices in form/genre access for library digital collections.
{"title":"Form and Genre Access to Academic Library Digital Collections","authors":"Patricia M. Dragon","doi":"10.1080/19386389.2020.1723203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2020.1723203","url":null,"abstract":"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 that has received much attention, despite an increased focus on digital collections metadata and on the user experience, as well as the development of form/genre vocabularies on the national scale, such as the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms (LCGFT). Over 100 North American digital collections websites were examined, and the results blended with data received from communications with parties responsible for digital collections metadata. The goals were to reveal possibilities for improving East Carolina University’s digital collections website, and additionally to stimulate discussion in the metadata community about best practices in form/genre access for library digital collections.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"31 3 1","pages":"29 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80357820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19386389.2019.1703497
Mike Monaco
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 SQL query of the Innovative Sierra database retrieves entries from the “Headings used for the first time” report. These entries are then processed with some regular expression substitutions to create a list of terms suitable for batch searching in the OCLC Connexion client. Two approaches to this problem are described in detail and results compared. A similar method for using the “Unauthorized headings” report from the SirsiDynix Symphony ILS is also described.
{"title":"Methods for In-Sourcing Authority Control with MarcEdit, SQL, and Regular Expressions","authors":"Mike Monaco","doi":"10.1080/19386389.2019.1703497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2019.1703497","url":null,"abstract":"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 SQL query of the Innovative Sierra database retrieves entries from the “Headings used for the first time” report. These entries are then processed with some regular expression substitutions to create a list of terms suitable for batch searching in the OCLC Connexion client. Two approaches to this problem are described in detail and results compared. A similar method for using the “Unauthorized headings” report from the SirsiDynix Symphony ILS is also described.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"1 1","pages":"1 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72837621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19386389.2020.1742434
R. Desmeules, Clara Turp, Andrew Senior
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 peers in the linked data community evaluating their ontologies? Are participants engaging in ontology evaluation? What methodologies and evaluation criteria are they using? Are they documenting and sharing their processes? In this paper, we present findings 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. The purpose of this survey was to better understand the reality of ontology evaluation in the context of a linked data project. We found that our colleagues were engaging in data modeling as part of linked data projects in a variety of different tasks and roles. There was some ambiguity with respect to evaluation, possibly in part due to the iterative nature of the modeling process. Evaluation is engaged iteratively and informally through use cases, competency questions, and testing of the data in the application. On the whole, not being shared widely outside of a project. The identified barriers to evaluating their models included: lack of knowledge, resources, and documentation.
{"title":"Exploring Methods for Linked Data Model Evaluation in Practice","authors":"R. Desmeules, Clara Turp, Andrew Senior","doi":"10.1080/19386389.2020.1742434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2020.1742434","url":null,"abstract":"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 peers in the linked data community evaluating their ontologies? Are participants engaging in ontology evaluation? What methodologies and evaluation criteria are they using? Are they documenting and sharing their processes? In this paper, we present findings 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. The purpose of this survey was to better understand the reality of ontology evaluation in the context of a linked data project. We found that our colleagues were engaging in data modeling as part of linked data projects in a variety of different tasks and roles. There was some ambiguity with respect to evaluation, possibly in part due to the iterative nature of the modeling process. Evaluation is engaged iteratively and informally through use cases, competency questions, and testing of the data in the application. On the whole, not being shared widely outside of a project. The identified barriers to evaluating their models included: lack of knowledge, resources, and documentation.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"136 1","pages":"65 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76570242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19386389.2020.1728479
R. C. Knight, Elizabeth Rodrigues, Rebecca. Ciota
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 creation. The variety of expertise required to create high-quality metadata for digital humanities projects practically requires a collaborative approach. Putting the call for collaboration into practice requires tools that are accessible and functional for all collaborators. Research on tools for metadata creation has tended to focus either on tools for librarians to manage digital project metadata or on tools for independent author metadata creation (Greenberg, 2003; Crystal & Greenberg, 2005). The literature has also tended to focus solely on the use of spreadsheets for metadata creation. Lincoln (2018) has discussed best practices for Google Sheets in archival metadata entry, and Broman and Woo (2017) have discussed best practices for spreadsheet data entry in general. This article positions tool selection and configuration as site of collaboration for the creation of digital project metadata through its examination of a Google Forms-based workflow for the creation and organization of metadata.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-08DOI: 10.1080/19386389.2019.1688368
Lihong Zhu
Abstract Within the past few years, the calls for transforming library data into linked data have become more and more frequent. The purpose of this study is to discuss the future of authority control in the linked data environment. Even though we may not have answers to all the questions, but one thing is clear – the authority control concept and process as we know it in the MARC-based legacy environment will not meet the requirements of linked data. The future of authority control lies in following closely the linked data principles.
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