{"title":"Falling through the Cracks: Metadata Inadequacies in Rock Climbing Research","authors":"T. Casucci, R. Wittmann","doi":"10.1080/19386389.2022.2032547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2022.2032547","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The purpose of this study is to analyze and assess existing controlled vocabularies for rock climbing-related scholarship compared to climbing definitions and rating systems, improve metadata in the J. Willard Marriott Library Digital Library collections, and propose solutions to more accurately describe these materials. The project took a multifaceted approach to review climbing metadata across a variety of information formats, including scholarly research literature and audiovisual media. First, the subject headings were aligned to the Yosemite Decimal System (YDS), a rating system used by climbers to distinguish between hiking, scrambling, and easy-to-difficult climbing. A corpora of climbing-related scholarly research articles’ from PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, and SportDiscus was created and analyzed for the frequency and accuracy of outdoor recreation subject headings compared to YDS definitions. Locally, the Digital Library collections were reviewed and analyzed with the YDS. Over a hundred of images depicting climbing related sports were updated with correct metadata during the remediation process. Nationally, multiple help tickets were submitted to suggest changes to existing controlled vocabularies and an openly accessible website with best practices was created. The Climbing Metadata website aims to educate non-climber metadata practitioners about accurate terminology, which will improve the discovery of climbing scholarship and materials.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"71 6 1","pages":"17 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77454794","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}
{"title":"Metadata Application Profiles in U. S. Academic Libraries: A Document Analysis","authors":"Ashlea Green","doi":"10.1080/19386389.2022.2030172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2022.2030172","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper describes a document analysis of 24 metadata application profiles (MAPs) used by academic libraries in the United States. The MAPs under study were collected from (a) the DLF AIG Metadata Application Profile Clearinghouse and (b) a Google search of .edu domains. Data collection and analysis took place between December 2020 and February 2021. While most of the MAPs under review provided metadata guidelines for digital collections, a small number were intended for institutional repositories or research data management. The study’s findings reveal MAP features and content, usage of controlled vocabularies and standards, and other characteristics pertaining to MAP document scope, contents and format in this context. In addition to its discussion of the literature, the paper’s findings should help metadata specialists and others involved in digital collection management gain insights useful in the development or revision of their own metadata documentation. Further, these findings offer a current glimpse of metadata application practices among U.S. academic libraries generally.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"54 1","pages":"105 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89762345","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}
Kate Gregory, Lauren T. Geiger, Preston R. Salisbury
{"title":"Voyant Tools and Descriptive Metadata: A Case Study in How Automation Can Compliment Expertise Knowledge","authors":"Kate Gregory, Lauren T. Geiger, Preston R. Salisbury","doi":"10.1080/19386389.2022.2030635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2022.2030635","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the use of Voyant Tools, an open-source online application that assists users in the analysis of digital texts through data visualization, by a cataloger, a metadata librarian, and an archivist tasked with creating subject metadata for an archival collection of Congressional correspondence. By sending a digitized, OCR-ed corpus through Voyant Tools’s multiple analytic tools, the information professionals were able to determine and verify what the collection was about and extract a consistent, clean set of keywords to help create metadata and subject headings for the collection. The results generated by this method created deeper knowledge of the collection for the information professionals who steward the collection as well as future researchers of the collection.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"34 1","pages":"1 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82718380","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}
{"title":"Trials of Metadata: Emerging Schemas for Videogame Cataloguing","authors":"Abigail Chapman","doi":"10.1080/19386389.2021.2007729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2021.2007729","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the past decade, videogames have grown in cultural importance. As they have begun to fill museums, archives, and libraries, the need to catalogue them has become more pressing. However, widely accepted guidelines for cataloguing videogames are still in the process of being developed. Until now, online databases developed by fan communities have led the way in creating systems that effectively capture videogame metadata, yet a few groups have recently sprung up in academia that have developed coherent schemas for implementation in libraries and museums. This study will examine videogame metadata schemas designed by information professionals, fan communities, and commercial websites. These will be compared to each other and be analyzed in their treatment of RDA core elements and genre classification in order to highlight the ways videogames are challenging and expanding traditional metadata standards. These schemas highlight many of the same medium-specific elements absent from RDA, for example, the value of a platform element distinct from system requirements or edition; the equal emphasis on developer and publisher; or the multifaceted nature of videogame genre.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"18 1","pages":"63 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89911593","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}
Christian Hauschke, Serhii Nazarovets, Franziska Altemeier, N. Kaliuzhna
{"title":"Roadmap to FAIR Research Information in Open Infrastructures","authors":"Christian Hauschke, Serhii Nazarovets, Franziska Altemeier, N. Kaliuzhna","doi":"10.1080/19386389.2021.1999156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2021.1999156","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The FAIR Principles were designed to improve the findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability of data holdings by humans and machines. The principles can be applied to research information too. We present the results of the discussions that took place during the series of online workshops with experts on Research Information and FAIR Guiding Principles. We provide high-level criteria on how to foster findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable, and we hope that our roadmap for FAIR research information in open infrastructures bring many benefits to a diverse group of stakeholders of the scientific ecosystem.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"58 1","pages":"45 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86890351","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}
Krystyna K. Matusiak, Sarah Werling, Lisa D. Donovan, Sam Carlson
{"title":"Rights Metadata in a Community Archive: Implementing Standardized Rights Statements","authors":"Krystyna K. Matusiak, Sarah Werling, Lisa D. Donovan, Sam Carlson","doi":"10.1080/19386389.2021.1955586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2021.1955586","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Rights metadata in digital collections play an important role in indicating the copyright status of digitized objects and providing users with information in terms of reuse. Describing the copyright of archival materials can be complicated because of limited information about authorship and date of creation. The process of assessing copyright and selecting rights statements is particularly challenging in community archives, often organized by volunteers. This paper presents a case of evaluating copyright and implementing standardized rights statements in the Park County Local History Archive, a community archive in Colorado. The archival collections include a mix of historical materials and recent digital donations. The rights statements from RightsStatements.org were assigned to each digitized object in the digital archive. An assessment study reviewing the accuracy of the assigned statements was conducted. The analysis revealed some inaccuracies and provided an opportunity to revise the rights metadata.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"23 1","pages":"27 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81345883","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}
{"title":"Hierarchies, Humanities, and Human Resources: Migrating Archival Collections in Times of Austerity","authors":"C. McEvilly, Augustine David Nocera","doi":"10.1080/19386389.2021.1940064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2021.1940064","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This case study discusses a project to migrate a variety of legacy metadata formats and management systems into a consolidated new platform, ArchivesSpace. In 2018 the Archives and Special Collections of the College of Staten Island (CSI) Library, City University of New York (CUNY) began a project to replace outdated systems which would increase consistency in metadata creation and provide improved web access for users. Folder-level descriptive data was housed in a flat-file database system with select digitized images. Most collection and series level data were in narrative documents with minimal metadata, generally in PDF and HTML formats. The project migrated all data to a locally-hosted instance of ArchivesSpace. This migration case study not only provides a useful, practical example that can help others in similar situations, it also sheds light on larger questions in archives: the role of automation and manual work in data creation/migration; the definition of professional tasks; professional time costs versus administrative staff work; the difficulties of standardized metadata creation and management with high staff turnover caused by a climate of austerity; and the importance of preservation of rich descriptive data for the future of libraries and research in diverse fields.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"28 1","pages":"1 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80329914","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}
{"title":"Understanding and Reviewing RDA Vocabularies in RDF: A Multi-Layer Framework Approach","authors":"Shoichi Taniguchi","doi":"10.1080/19386389.2021.1941717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2021.1941717","url":null,"abstract":"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 the validity and usefulness of the framework. Further, it proposes an alternate for the vocabularies at each layer of the framework. (1) The proposed framework consists of four layers: (a) layer 1 constructs RDA Vocabularies in line with the RDA conceptual model; (b) layer 2 constructs vocabularies in RDF representation that accommodate the recording methods prescribed in RDA for individual elements; (c) layer 3 constructs them by reconstructing the relationship elements; and (d) layer 4 accommodates additional ways to enforce the structural representation of RDA metadata. RDA Vocabularies are examined at each layer to demonstrate the framework’s validity and usefulness. (2) Alternate vocabularies in RDF are proposed at layers 2 and 3 of the framework. Those proposed vocabularies could be useful, but the examination of their usefulness is limited. Extensions at layer 4 would also be useful for the schema for RDA metadata creation. Therefore, the proposed framework is valuable for understanding and reviewing RDA Vocabularies, while some points need further consideration.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"27 1","pages":"237 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90681849","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}
{"title":"Mapping Search Queries to Metadata Fields in a GeoBlacklight Repository","authors":"Philip White, Erik Radio","doi":"10.1080/19386389.2020.1915459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2020.1915459","url":null,"abstract":"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 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. Through query log analysis, we broke down queries into specific categories and mapped those to specific fields in the GeoBlacklight schema to see how often terms matched to particular fields. The fields that had the most frequent matches to queries were dc.title and dc.description. We explain the methods by which we collected and used the data and discuss the implications of our findings for ongoing curation work for geospatial metadata.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"40 1","pages":"219 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88802043","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}
Mary Burke, Oksana L. Zavalina, M. Phillips, S. Chelliah
{"title":"Organization of Knowledge and Information in Digital Archives of Language Materials","authors":"Mary Burke, Oksana L. Zavalina, M. Phillips, S. Chelliah","doi":"10.1080/19386389.2020.1908651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2020.1908651","url":null,"abstract":"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 their value for academic applications, digital availability of language data holds potential to support language and cultural revitalization and maintenance. Until recently, language archives have not been considered in information science research. This article reports the first empirical investigation of various dimensions of organization and representation of recorded knowledge and information in language archives. The study used a combination of semi-structured interviews and content analysis. Results demonstrate that, while some of the phenomena related to organization of information in language archives are specific to these types of archives, others are more typical and have been addressed by libraries in past research and practice. For example, authority control, sustainability, and software interoperability are among the primary issues identified by our study. This paper discusses the metadata-related opportunities and challenges for language archive managers and depositors observed in this study, and suggests directions for future research in this area.","PeriodicalId":39057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Library Metadata","volume":"27 1","pages":"185 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75457956","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}