A quick note that some of you may have noticed I’ve stuck a link to library thing on my blogroll (I’ll try to sort out how the sidebar is arranged eventually). This is the contents of my office bookshelf. a few non-work-related things may creep in (if I leave my Neal Stephenson in the [...]
Lorcan Dempsey has an interesting post about sources of metadata. http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001351.html
He gives some brief thoughts that attempt to tease out the different sources of metadata that are commonly in use today, suggesting four key sources: “professional, contributed, programmatically promoted, and intentional”.
Related posts here: Automatic metadata generation
