This paper examines user-generated metadata as implemented and
applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media
to better understand grassroots classification. Metadata - data about
data - allows systems to collocate related information, and helps users
find relevant information. The creation of metadata has generally been
approached in two ways: professional creation and author creation. In libraries
and other organizations, creating metadata, primarily in the form
of catalog records, has traditionally been the domain of dedicated professionals
working with complex, detailed rule sets and vocabularies. The
primary problem with this approach is scalability and its impracticality
for the vast amounts of content being produced and used, especially on
the World Wide Web. The apparatus and tools built around professional
cataloging systems are generally too complicated for anyone without specialized
training and knowledge. A second approach is for metadata to
be created by authors. The movement towards creator described documents
was heralded by SGML, theWWW, and the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative. There are problems with this approach as well - often due to
inadequate or inaccurate description, or outright deception. This paper
examines a third approach: user-created metadata, where users of the
documents and media create metadata for their own individual use that
is also shared throughout a community.
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%X This paper examines user-generated metadata as implemented and
applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media
to better understand grassroots classification. Metadata - data about
data - allows systems to collocate related information, and helps users
find relevant information. The creation of metadata has generally been
approached in two ways: professional creation and author creation. In libraries
and other organizations, creating metadata, primarily in the form
of catalog records, has traditionally been the domain of dedicated professionals
working with complex, detailed rule sets and vocabularies. The
primary problem with this approach is scalability and its impracticality
for the vast amounts of content being produced and used, especially on
the World Wide Web. The apparatus and tools built around professional
cataloging systems are generally too complicated for anyone without specialized
training and knowledge. A second approach is for metadata to
be created by authors. The movement towards creator described documents
was heralded by SGML, theWWW, and the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative. There are problems with this approach as well - often due to
inadequate or inaccurate description, or outright deception. This paper
examines a third approach: user-created metadata, where users of the
documents and media create metadata for their own individual use that
is also shared throughout a community.
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applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media
to better understand grassroots classification. Metadata - data about
data - allows systems to collocate related information, and helps users
find relevant information. The creation of metadata has generally been
approached in two ways: professional creation and author creation. In libraries
and other organizations, creating metadata, primarily in the form
of catalog records, has traditionally been the domain of dedicated professionals
working with complex, detailed rule sets and vocabularies. The
primary problem with this approach is scalability and its impracticality
for the vast amounts of content being produced and used, especially on
the World Wide Web. The apparatus and tools built around professional
cataloging systems are generally too complicated for anyone without specialized
training and knowledge. A second approach is for metadata to
be created by authors. The movement towards creator described documents
was heralded by SGML, theWWW, and the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative. There are problems with this approach as well - often due to
inadequate or inaccurate description, or outright deception. This paper
examines a third approach: user-created metadata, where users of the
documents and media create metadata for their own individual use that
is also shared throughout a community.},
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