... descriptive and metadata complexities, particularly with the classification and description systems currently in use, including the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). This research investigates these issues in galleries, libraries, archives, museums and universities (GLAMU) across Aotearoa New...

... 2026 06 01 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Academic libraries Artificial intelligence Automation Knowledge organizations Librarianship history Library Metadata Social infrastructure Sociotechnical systems Third...

... and editorial processes have failed to detect them. This study highlights the need for improved quality control of documents in scientific publishing and for greater awareness of how small typographic errors can affect metadata integrity as well as information retrieval. Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva can...

...Chunqiu Li; Shengnan Zhao; Yufei Xuan; Chen Chen; Wirapong Chansanam Purpose The existing metadata frameworks are limited to fully capture unique characteristics of Chinese paper-cutting identified as traditional art and intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Therefore, the paper aims to develop...

... for three moods: Aggressive, Quirky and Intense. Originality/value The current study adopts a user-centered perspective to evaluate the existing metadata framework created based on literature analysis. This study aims to complement the literature-based framework with users’ perspectives to enhance...

... metadata by conducting a large-scale analysis of how the metadata fields encoded in the Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) standards. Design/methodology/approach We examined more than 6 million book records from 1980 to 2018 in the catalog of the Library of Congress. We particularly focused on how...

... for online interviews. The participants shared their insights into the prototypes and their fiction search and review experiences. Findings Most participants preferred designs that support both mood terms and emojis. The findings highlighted the potential of emojis to improve metadata inclusivity...

... contributes to the understanding of the relationships between mood categories. Emojis, as graphic mood descriptors, have the potential to complement textual descriptors and enrich mood metadata for fiction. Wan-Chen Lee can be contacted at: wclee@uwm.edu 02 08 2023 13 11 2023 23 11 2023...

... of this study is to contribute towards filling this knowledge gap in order to advance both research and practice in the domain of OA books. Design/methodology/approach This study utilized open bibliometric data sources to aggregate a harmonized dataset of metadata records for OA books (data sources...

... 07 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Fiction Categories User warrant Mood Affective information needs Pleasure reading Card sorting Metadata Mood is a deep and complex notion. It refers to various concepts...

... to museums and other cultural heritage institutions that are planning to adopt machine-generated tagging during the image indexing process. Plate 1 Metadata details of the object Wearing Blanket (1860–70) For end users of cultural heritage collections, subject access is a significant...

... The purpose of this paper is to investigate what metadata elements for access points currently exist to represent diverse library reading materials, either in libraries or from external sources, as well as what metadata elements for access points are currently not present but are necessary to represent...

...Karen Wickett Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for the articulation of relationships between collection-level and item-level metadata as logical inference rules. The framework is intended to allow the systematic generation of relevant propagation rules and to enable...

... as a result of its heterogeneous and non-standardized form. Metadata Data repository Climate data Data rescue Historical scientific data Weather data Historical scientific records are unique and highly valued by historians, scientists, librarians, archivists and users. Historical...

... for organizing bibliographic metadata. However, such models have been repeatedly criticized for their lack of proper user testing. The purpose of this paper is to present a study on how non-experts in bibliographic systems map the bibliographic universe and, in particular, how they conceptualize relationships...

...Ayse Gursoy; Karen Wickett; Melanie Feinberg Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate tag use in a metadata ecosystem that supports a fan work repository to identify functions of tags and explore the system as a co-constructed communicative context. Design/methodology/approach Using...

... intended users. Social implications Open science increases the transparency of not only research products, but also metadata tools. Gaining a deeper understanding of the challenges involved in their construction is important for a great variety of users – e.g. indexers, vocabulary builders...

... database reading activities, research should develop tools that focus user attention on the application of database structure to database contents. Another way of saying this is that research should exploit the interactive possibilities of metadata, either human-created or algorithmically generated...

... metadata standards for CI systems. Design/methodology/approach – The two main data structure standards for CI, namely the element set developed by the Alliance of Information and Referral Systems (AIRS) and the MARC21 Format for CI, are compared by means of a mapping exercise, after which an entity...

.... For the libraries, this disconnect of roles caused by the advent of printed books had important consequences: from institutions integrating the generation and reproduction of knowledge with their management they transformed into mere managers of content containers which in turn were referenced by metadata records...