Tag Archives: metadata
Music Folksonomies: Harnessing the Power of the Crowd
Music, especially on a track-by-track level creates unique and challenging problems for both catalogers and users. Many libraries utilize terminology from The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) when cataloging their collections. However, the use of LCSH for cataloging music in a modern library can leave both catalogers and users working around large deficits. The […]
Digital Archives and Born-Digital Materials
Digital archives offer users and archivists new approaches to storing and accessing archival materials. The benefits of digital archives include the possibility for instant global access to a collection, greater search capabilities and more user friendly interfaces. However, deciding when it is appropriate to invest in making a new digital archive or when a preexisting […]
Tag! You’re it!
The Brooklyn Museum and Dartmouth University have both developed their own social metadata ‘tagging’ games for students and the general public play with. The mission of these two different games is to increase the metadata – or tags – in each of the institutions’ collections and also to create keywords by their users, in the […]
