Making metadata: a study of metadata creation for a mixed physical-digital collection
Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Digital libraries
Author-generated Dublin Core Metadata for Web Resources: A Baseline Study in an Organization
DCMI '01 Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001
Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians
Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians
Analyzing metadata for effective use and re-use
DCMI '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications: supporting communities of discourse and practice---metadata research & applications
Improving metadata quality: augmentation and recombination
DCMI '04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications: metadata across languages and cultures
Metadata
Dublin Core metadata semantics: an analysis of the perspectives of information professionals
Journal of Information Science
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Researchers argue that the utility of metadata records depends on the kinds of information used (i.e. definitions and best practice guidelines) when creating metadata. To verify this claim, a mixed factorial design experiment was conducted in which 120 participants were assigned to four groups on the basis of their training level and the kinds of information (definitions only or best practice guidelines) accessible to create metadata records. Participants used Dublin Core to create records for the same resources and errors were analysed and compared across groups. Although participants who used best practice guidelines made significantly fewer errors than those participants who used only definitions, the high error rates observed across all treatment groups suggest the need for additional measures to control errors in metadata records.