Abstract
Print-based libraries use metadata (specifically MARC catalog records) for both bibliographic control and to support discovery through online public access catalogs. Depending on its accuracy, completeness, and detail, metadata can afford an aerial view of a collection's topical strengths, scope of coverage, and item-to-item relationships, but the view offered is in part a function of metadata design. Most MARC records were created to support management of large print collections and optimized to meet the requirements of library online public access catalogs. How well do pre-existing MARC records serve the discovery needs of scholars using a large-scale digital library hosting collections of retrospectively digitized books and serials? This paper reports on an ongoing assessment of the utility of the MARC-based metadata underlying the HathiTrust Digital Library and explores the implications for advanced computational access to texts in the HathiTrust. We consider here the utility of metadata to scholars creating worksets for analysis, examining three user scenarios, which were gleaned from an ongoing user-requirements study done for the HathiTrust Research Center: (1) using metadata fields in combination for corpus characterization and discovery; (2) relying on metadata to identify resources of interest; and (3) using bibliographies of known items to seed research worksets. Our goal is to better understand the need for metadata remediation and augmentation and assess the scope of additional work required.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | 2014 IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2014 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 317-320 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781479955695 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2014 |
| Event | 2014 14th IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2014 - London, United Kingdom Duration: Sep 8 2014 → Sep 12 2014 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |
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| ISSN (Print) | 1552-5996 |
Other
| Other | 2014 14th IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2014 |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| City | London |
| Period | 9/8/14 → 9/12/14 |
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Keywords
- Digital Library metadata requirements
- HathiTrust Research Center
- MARC-based metadata
- metadata evaluation
- metadata reliability
- workset creation for scholarly analysis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering(all)
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A preliminary evaluation of HathiTrust metadata : Assessing the sufficiency of legacy records. / Fenlon, Katrina; Fallaw, Colleen; Cole, Timothy; Han, Myung Ja.
2014 IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. p. 317-320 6970186 (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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