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JISC Report: Metadata for Digital Libraries

The Joint Information Systems Committee has just issued a report on metadata and libraries in the digital age, available here. Judy O'Connell's blog Hey Jude helpfully digests some of the more critical points with Paul Anderson of Intelligent Content:

The problem for librarians is that when you are creating things like e-books, you have to think about a different set of ?quality? criteria because these digital objects will not be used in the same way that physical books are. They will need to designed so that they can be searched, for example, or delivered as separate pages. For the average library user, accessing information that spans multiple digital sources is increasingly a messy process and for those who are used to search tools such as Google and Yahoo this new and highly fluid environment can be a considerable barrier to accessing information from digital libraries and online collections. What is concerning about this is, unless we are careful, people will increasingly see the search results thrown up by Google, Yahoo etc. as the be-all and end-all of a particular area of interest or subject.

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Posted by Laura Dawson , April 16, 08, 10:24 AM , comments(0) , permalink , Email this post
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