Skill-building in subject representation: Assessing learning outcomes through analysis of student-created metadata

Zavalin, Vyacheslav

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Title

Skill-building in subject representation: Assessing learning outcomes through analysis of student-created metadata

Author(s)

Zavalin, Vyacheslav

Issue Date

2024-10-16

Keyword(s)

• Subject access
• subject representation
• STEM materials
• practical competencies assessment
• metadata evaluation
• Information organization and retrieval--Metadata
• Information practices--Education
• Education of information professionals--Curriculum

Abstract

Representation of topics, places, events and other entities that information resource is about (referred to as subject representation) is crucial in facilitating access to information. It is an integral part of one of the core competencies of information professionals defined by the American Library Association (ALA). Students in ALA-accredited professional degree programs develop knowledge and skills that prepare them for analyzing what information resource is about and representing this aboutness with a combination of free-text keywords/keyphrases and terms from controlled vocabularies that are widely used by practitioners in the field. This paper reports the results of the evaluation of professional competencies developed by future information professionals in the representation of an information resource’s aboutness in a real-life practical setting. The dataset used in this evaluation consists of over 18 thousand metadata records -- created over 12 years, mostly by students -- in the major digital collection that provides access to historical patents

Publisher

Association for Library and Information Science Education

Series/Report Name or Number

Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference, 2024

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

• Conference Paper
• Presentation

Language

eng

Handle URL

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/130749

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2024.1665

Copyright and License Information

• Copyright 2024 Vyacheslav Zavalin
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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