An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata Enrich then Filter [Paperback]

An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata is a reaction to the current digital library landscape that is being challenged with growing online collections and changing user expectations. The theory provides the conceptual underpinnings for a new approach which moves away from expert defined standardised metadata to a user driven approach with users as metadata co-creators.?Moving away from definitive, authoritative, metadata to a system that reflects the diversity of users' terminologies, it changes the current focus on metadata simplicity and efficiency to one of metadata enriching, which is a continuous and evolving process of data linking.?From predefined description to information conceptualised, contextualised and filtered at the point of delivery.?By presenting this shift, this book provides a coherent structure in which future technological developments can be considered.

• Metadata is valuable when continuously enriched by experts and users
• Metadata enriching results from ubiquitous linkin
• Metadata is a resource that should be linked openly
• The power of metadata is unlocked when enriched metadata is filtered for users individually

• Chapter One: Overview of Standards-based Metadata Approaches
• Chapter Two: Changing Users' Needs
• Chapter Three: The Web 2.0 Paradigm and the Emergence of Socially-Constructed Metadata Approaches
• Chapter Four: The Emergence of Socially-Constructed Metadata Approaches
• Chapter Five: The Principle of? Metadata Enriching
• Chapter Six: The Principle of? Metadata Linking
• Chapter Seven: The Principle of Metadata Openness
• Chapter Eight: The Principle of? Metadata Filtering
• Chapter Nine: The Emergence of a Thelӄ