Open AccessEmpowering digital libraries users through combining taxonomies with folksonomies
Author(s) -
Alemneh Daniel Gelaw,
Rorissa Abebe
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.14504901373
Subject(s) - workflow , computer science , world wide web , search engine indexing , cultural heritage , resource (disambiguation) , digital library , digital collections , quality (philosophy) , metadata , data science , knowledge management , information retrieval , multimedia , geography , database , art , computer network , philosophy , literature , poetry , archaeology , epistemology
The increase in the number and heterogeneity of digital resources has led cultural heritage institutions to develop tools, workflows, and quality assurance mechanisms that allow effective digital resource management. This poster assesses the current landscape in digital libraries as well as best practices and identifies emerging trends in information indexing. It also explores the potentials of and controversies surrounding user supplied tags or keywords in terms of complementing established controlled vocabularies in a diverse and collaborative environment.