Maker Metadata: Problems and Possibilities

Information about makers is critical to bibliographic research, and special collections cataloging norms provide maker metadata. Still, access to maker metadata is hampered in online library catalogs. This article investigates the betterment of maker metadata in (or alongside) library catalogs using...

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Published in:Cataloging & classification quarterly 2015-10, Vol.53 (7), p.785-800
Main Author: O'Dell, Allison Jai
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
authority work
cataloging
Communities
EAC-CPF
Guidelines
Libraries
Mathematical models
Metadata
Norms
Profession
provenance
rare books
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Summary:Information about makers is critical to bibliographic research, and special collections cataloging norms provide maker metadata. Still, access to maker metadata is hampered in online library catalogs. This article investigates the betterment of maker metadata in (or alongside) library catalogs using existing content guidelines, encoding schemas, and data models. Discussion finds that libraries have appropriate tools for improving access to maker metadata. This article thus encourages the profession to coordinate access to maker metadata. Cooperative maker description and the merger and/or linking of datasets generated by the research community are suggested areas for future investigation.
ISSN:0163-9374
1544-4554
DOI:10.1080/01639374.2015.1020584