Managing Metadata in Web-Scale Discovery Systems

Libraries are increasingly using web-scale discovery systems to help clients find a wide assortment of library materials, including books, journal articles, special collections, archival collections, videos, music and open access collections. Depending on the library material cataloged, the discovery system might need to negotiate different metadata standards, such as AACR, RDA, RAD, FOAF, VRA Core, METS, MODS, RDF, and more. In Managing Metadata in Web-scale Discovery Systems, Spiteri and a range of international experts show you how to:

• maximize the effectiveness of web-scale discovery systems;
• provide a smooth and seamless discovery experience to your users;
• help users conduct searches that yield relevant results;
• manage the sheer volume of items to which you can provide access, so your users can actually find what they need;
• maintain shared records that reflect the needs, languages, and identities of culturally and ethnically varied communities;
• manage metadata both within, across, and outside, library discovery tools by converting your library metadata to linked open data that all systems can access;
• manage user generated metadata from external services such as Goodreads and LibraryThing; and

• mine user generated metadata to better serve your users in areas such as collection development or readers' advisory.

Dr. Louise F. Spiteri is Director of the School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She has published extensively in the areas of social tagging, folksonomies, social discovery systems, and library cataloguing. She teaches in the areas of information management, metadata, records management, cataloging, classification, and taxonomies.