Browse Items (19 total)

  • Subject is exactly "Metadata"

Using Wikidata to Create Knowledge Graphs for Library Collections

Wikidata_KG_CALAposter_2022.pdf
As a Linked Open Data (LOD) platform for structured data, and a community-building knowledge base, Wikidata stores people, spaces, times and other entities, and their semantic relationships. Wikidata Knowledge graph is a knowledge base that…

Position: 453 (164 views)

Using an Interactive Authoring Tool for a Cataloging/Metadata
Creation Class – Experimentation and Prospects

CALA-poster-2023.pdf
Cataloging, classification, and metadata creation are essential functions of information organization in LIS (library and information science) field. High-quality data serves critical roles in effective organization of library materials. However,…

Position: 687 (45 views)

Tse-Tsung Chow Collection of Chinese Scrolls and Fan Paintings

Chinese Scrolls presentation for CALA.pdf
"Tse-Tsung Chow Collection of Chinese Scrolls and Fan Paintings" is the second session in the CALA Speaker Series: Describing Chinese Rare Books and Cultural Heritage Collections. It provides a brief introduction to the background of the collection…

Position: 145 (241 views)

Together We Make It Work! – Metadata Collaboration in UIC Libraries

This presentation is a case study that discusses the successful collaboration between different departments within our university library to improve our metadata. The collaboration combined library faculty and staff knowledge of metadata standards…

Position: 835 (10 views)

Refined description vs. better user access experience: metadata creation for digital image collections

RefinedDescription.pdf
Paper presentation overview: One of the most work-intensive tasks for digital image collections is creating the image metadata. At UIC, this work was traditionally done by the archivists. We've recently expanded that workflow to engage catalogers…

Position: 843 (3 views)

Practices, challenges, and prospects of big data curation: A case study in geoscience

This paper discusses the practices, challenges, and prospects of big data curation using the geoscience field as a case study.

Position: 506 (107 views)

Optimizing Workflow through Metadata Repurposing and Batch Processing

This article focuses on metadata repurposing and batch processing to improve cataloging workflow in a medium sized library. Some metadata repurposing cases at Wichita State University (WSU) Libraries are addressed, including transferring of an…

Position: 237 (220 views)

Opening CALASYS to All Members

CALASYS.mp4
Since the Chinese American Librarians Association’s Academic Resources and Repository System (CALASYS, https://ir.cala-web.org/) was initiated in 2013, its collections have grown gradually by way of the Committee’s curation and entries with…

Position: 2 (438 views)

Metadata Effectiveness in Internet Discovery: An Analysis of Digital Collection Metadata Elements and Internet Search Engine Keywords

This study analyzed digital item metadata and keywords from Internet search engines to learn what metadata elements actually facilitate discovery of digital collections through Internet keyword searching and how significantly each metadata element…

Position: 237 (220 views)

Linked data in the library

2017CALA_SEprogram_Zhang.pdf
This presentation is a brief introduction to acknowledge the understanding of linked data, which yields hope to link separate objects in a meaningful way. The topic and potential of linked data has been hotly debated and very exciting. However, the…

Position: 99 (252 views)