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What can an academic catalog look like in a Web 2.0 environment? This poster presents data analyzing the quality and quantity of the metadata that a large academic library would expect to gain if utilizing a service like that found on LibraryThing. It also looks at the advantaages and disadvantages of controlled vocabularies and social tagging.
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- Doing the LibraryThing in an Academic Library Catalog
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- DeZelar-Tiedman, Christine
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- 2008-09-10
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- doi:10.23106/dcmi.952109430
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- LibraryThing
- social tagging
- controlled vocabulary
- library catalogs
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- DC-2008--Berlin Proceedings
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- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
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