Complementarity in Subject Metadata in Large-Scale Digital Libraries: A Comparative Analysis

• Published in: Cataloging & classification quarterly Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 77 - 89
• Main Author: Zavalina, Oksana L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 01.01.2014
• Subjects: Best practice; Classification; Collection; collection-level metadata; Digital; Digital libraries; Digital systems; European union; Integrals; Metadata; metadata quality; Quality; Subject indexing; subject metadata

Provision of high-quality subject metadata is crucial for organizing adequate subject access to rich content aggregated by digital libraries. A number of large-scale digital libraries worldwide are now generating subject metadata to describe not only individual objects but entire digital collections...