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Knowledge Representation and Subject Access in ETDs: Analysis of Creators’ and Users’ Assumptions and Expectations
This paper analyzes the relationship between subject terms -- both authorized terms from controlled vocabularies and free-text keywords -- used to succinctly describe the content of the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) and the search terms entered by users to discover and access the ETDs. Identification of search terms and comparison of search results with subject terms used in describing ETDs provides a basis for assessing the relative usefulness of controlled-vocabulary subject terms supplied by professional indexers and free-text keywords supplied by authors of ETDs in facilitating access to ETDs. Arguably, there has been a shift in the way users search, access, and use information resources
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Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc 2023
Article documenting a study examining a sample of WorldCat records representing Ukrainian-language archival materials (including digital resources) that were not officially published or released with the goal to examine the extent to which these metadata records support the user tasks of find, identify, select, obtain, and explore. It was presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on June 30, 2023 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2023
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Big Data in the Big D
Presentation for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation presents some results of a content analysis study that explores the state of implementation of the Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard in authority records
Developing an Empirically-Based Framework of Metadata Change and Exploring Relation Between Metadata Change and Metadata Quality in Marc Library Metadata
This paper from International Conference on Knowledge Management, ICKM 2016 conference proceedings seeks to test and refine the metadata change framework initially developed for characterizing the change in digital library metadata, in the study of traditional library metadata