NOT A BOOK: Goodreads and the Risks of Social Cataloging with Insufficient Direction

IF 0.9 Q3 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-17 DOI:10.1080/01639374.2023.2207189

Hannah Oudenaar, J. Bullard

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Abstract

Abstract Social cataloging websites, such as Goodreads, LibraryThing, and StoryGraph are widely popular with individuals who want to track their reading and read reviews. Goodreads is one of the most popular sites with 90 million registered users as of 2019. This paper studies a Goodreads cataloging rule, NOT A BOOK (NAB), through which users designate items as invalid to the site’s scope while preserving some of their metadata. By reviewing NAB, we identify thirteen types of invalid items. We go on to discuss how these item types unevenly reflect the rule itself and the emergence of a “non-book” sense through social cataloging.

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不是一本书:好读物和缺乏指导的社会编目的风险

社会分类网站，如Goodreads, LibraryThing和StoryGraph在想要跟踪自己的阅读和阅读评论的个人中广泛流行。截至2019年，Goodreads是最受欢迎的网站之一，拥有9000万注册用户。本文研究了Goodreads的一种编目规则，即NOT a BOOK (NAB)，通过该规则，用户可以在保留其部分元数据的同时指定网站范围内无效的条目。通过审查NAB，我们确定了13种类型的无效项目。我们继续讨论这些项目类型如何不均匀地反映规则本身以及通过社会编目出现的“非书”感。

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Cataloging & Classification Quarterly INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

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0.90

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28.60%

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期刊介绍： Cataloging & Classification Quarterly provides an effective international forum for information and discussion in the field of bibliographic organization. This highly respected journal considers the full spectrum of creation, content, management, use, and usability of bibliographic records, including the principles, functions, and techniques of descriptive cataloging; the wide range of methods of subject analysis and classification; provision of access for all formats of materials; and policies, planning, and issues connected to the effective use of bibliographic data in modern society.