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OCLC research report: Social Metadata for LAMs

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Jennifer A. Liss

OCLC has released part two (of three) of the research report, Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums. Part I: Site Reviews was released in September. Part II: Survey Analysis was released this month.

How respondents use social networking content for describing assets or collections
OCLC Research (2011). Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Part 2: Survey Analysis. p. 26

If you don’t have time to read the whole 73-page report, the Overview and Trends and Themes are worth a look. A few findings that jumped out at me:

  • Sites are increasingly multi-media; although still images and text predominate among the responding sites, more than a third also offer moving images and audio. Archives are a predominant source of content.
  • More than half of the survey respondents use a controlled vocabulary on their sites.
  • Only half of respondents indicated that they show users tags already in the system. A third combine user-contributed tags with their own controlled terms.
  • Most respondents index user-supplied metadata; most user-supplied content is searchable. More than half correct existing metadata as the result of user contributions. However, a minority incorporates metadata into their own description workflows and incorporates user-contributed content into their own sites.
  • A number of respondents are integrating their sites into institution’s production services rather than being dependent on external or temporary funding sources.
  • Usability testing tends to be done later in a site’s life cycle rather than as part of the development stage.

Author- Jennifer A. Liss

Human. Librarian. Consumes large quantities of data. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3641-4427 View all posts by Jennifer A. Liss

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Author Jennifer A. Liss Posted in Categories Metadata in the News | Tagged: Tags controlled vocabularies, OCLC, user-contributed metadata

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