Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Using the open archives initiative protocols with EAD
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Searching the web: operator assistance required
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Developing a collection registry for IMLS NLG digital collections
DCMI '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications: supporting communities of discourse and practice---metadata research & applications
Metadata aggregation and "automated digital libraries": a retrospective on the NSDL experience
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Information redundancy across metadata collections
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Trends in metadata practices: a longitudinal study of collection federation
Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
The return of the trivial: problems formalizing collection/item metadata relationships
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Collection/item metadata relationships
DCMI '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
Assessing descriptive substance in free-text collection-level metadata
DCMI '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
Rule categories for collection/item metadata relationships
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Beyond size and search: building contextual mass in digital aggregations for scholarly use
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Expressiveness requirements for reasoning about collection/item metadata relationships
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Strategies for reprocessing aggregated metadata
ECDL'05 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
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As an increasing number of digital library projects embrace the harvesting of item-level descriptive metadata, issues of description granularity and concerns about potential loss of context when harvesting item-level metadata take on greater significance. Collection-level description can provide valuable context for item-level metadata records harvested from disparate and heterogeneous providers. This paper describes an ongoing experiment using collection-level description in concert with item-level metadata to improve quality of search and discovery across an aggregation of metadata describing resources held by a consortium of large academic research libraries. We present details of approaches implemented so far and preliminary analyses of the potential utility of these approaches. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of related issues and future work plans.