Moving document collections online: the evolution of a shared repository
Proceedings of the Sixth European conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Creating virtual collections in digital libraries: benefits and implementation issues
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Automatic metadata generation & evaluation
SIGIR '02 Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Functional Requirements for Online Tools to Support Community-Led Collections Building
ECDL '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Interface design for metadata creation
CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Metadata aggregation and "automated digital libraries": a retrospective on the NSDL experience
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Learning from artifacts: metadata utilization analysis
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
DCMI '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications: supporting communities of discourse and practice---metadata research & applications
Iterative design of metadata creation tools for resource authors
DCMI '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications: supporting communities of discourse and practice---metadata research & applications
Reflections on a work-oriented design project
Human-Computer Interaction
A user-friendly metadata quality control tool for the internet public library
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
What do you call it?: a comparison of library-created and user-created tags
Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries
An organizational model for digital library evaluation
TPDL'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Theory and practice of digital libraries: research and advanced technology for digital libraries
'Erasmus': an organization- and user-centered dublin core metadata tool
Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries
What would 'google' do? users' mental models of a digital library search engine
TPDL'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
TPDL'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
Information and Organization
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Digital library interoperability relies on the use of a common metadata format. However, implementing a common metadata format among multiple digital libraries is not always a straightforward exercise. This paper reviews some of the metadata issues that arose during the merger of two digital libraries, the Internet Public Library and the Librarian's Internet Index. As part of the merger, each library's metadata was crosswalked to Dublin Core. This required considerable work. A sociotechnical analysis suggests that the metadata for each library had been shaped in complex ways over time by local factors, and that this complexity negatively impacted the efficiency of the crosswalk. Some implications of this finding for digital library interoperability are discussed.