"""Lo-Fi to Hi-Fi"" Crowd Cataloguing: Increasing E-Resource Records and Promoting Metadata Literacy within WiderNet"

Maron, Deborah; Missen, Cliff; Tayag, Elnora; McNeirney, Katie

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"""Lo-Fi to Hi-Fi"" Crowd Cataloguing: Increasing E-Resource Records and Promoting Metadata Literacy within WiderNet"

Author(s)

• Maron, Deborah
• Missen, Cliff
• Tayag, Elnora
• McNeirney, Katie

Issue Date

2015-03-15

Keyword(s)

• information organization and metadata
• education in library and information sciences
• distributed learning

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2015-03-24T16:07:47Z

Abstract

Five billion people, as well as rural libraries, schools, and prisons across the globe, are not connected to the Internet. The WiderNet Project attempts to assist these underserved populations with its eGranary Digital Libraries, which make a wide variety of Web resources available offline. Access alone is not enough, however, as an individual’s first exposure to Web resources is much like ‘drinking from a firehose’. Additionally, most of the eGranary’s 32 million resources remain uncatalogued and hence difficult to find. To address this issue, we are experimenting with ‘crowd cataloguing’ to create and cull cataloguing information for eGranary resources. An exploratory study is introduced in which we will draw on lessons learned from folksonomy as well as previous eGranary cataloguing projects. The purpose is to further develop a “Lo-Fi to Hi-Fi” model of eGranary metadata generation that emphasizes improving the metadata literacy of general users and library professionals.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2015 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

Conference Poster

Language

English

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