Time: Wednesday, 29/Mar/2023: 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Location: Room 10 |
What does provenance LACK: how retrospective and prospective met the subjunctive
1School of Library and Information Science, Simmons University; 2School of Communication and Information, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; 3School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Provenance is the story of objects: how they have come to be, what they could have been, what they will be. This paper explores the temporal complexity of provenance and suggests the need for the concept of subjunctive provenance. Using the example of building an IKEA LACK table, the authors explore the established concepts of retrospective and prospective provenance to highlight gaps and the potential for subjunctive provenance.
Dublin Core Metadata Created by Kuwaiti Students: Exploration of Quality in Context
1University of North Texas, United States of America; 2Basic Education College, The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET), Kuwait
Metadata education is evolving in the Arabian Gulf region. To ensure the effective instruction and skill-building, empirical data is needed on the outcomes of these early metadata instruction efforts. This paper is the first one to address this need and provide such data from one of the countries in the region. It reports results of the examination of metadata records for Arabic-language eBooks. The records were created by novice metadata creators as part of the undergraduate coursework at a Kuwaiti university in one of the classroom assignments over three semesters. Analysis focused on two important criteria of metadata quality: accuracy and completeness. The results are presented in-context, after introducing the metadata teaching practices at this undergraduate program, and the major Dublin Core skill-building assignment. Discussion of results is followed by discussion of future research.
Exploration of Accuracy, Completeness and Consistency in Metadata for Physical Objects in Museum Collections
1Texas Woman's University, United States of America; 2University of North Texas, United States of America
This exploratory study is the first one that examined student-created metadata for physical non-text resources. We applied in-depth qualitative and quantitative content analysis to the Dublin Core (DCTERMS) metadata created by the graduate students in two sections of an introductory digital library metadata course. The analysis of bibliographic records that represent paintings identified record fields in which novice metadata creators tend to make mistakes. Examples of the most common kinds of metadata errors for each quality criterion (accuracy, complete-ness, and consistency) are discussed and compared with results of previous relevant research. Finding of comparative analysis for the asynchronous course section and the section with synchronous class meetings are also presented. Implications are discussed, along with future directions for research.