Beyond crowdsourcing: Working with donors, student fieldworkers, and community scholars to improve cultural heritage collection metadata

Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, Anna-Maria Arnljots and Randy Williams
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Andrea Payant: Utah State University Libraries, USA
Becky Skeen: Utah State University Libraries, USA
Anna-Maria Arnljots: Utah State University Libraries, USA
Randy Williams: Utah State University Libraries, USA

Journal of Digital Media Management, 2020, vol. 8, issue 3, 242-253

Abstract: Utah State University Libraries (USU) employs community-based crowdsourcing metadata practices that provide in-depth, collaborative strategies that go beyond more commonly used collecting methods. Improved metadata quality is a result of working closely with donors, community scholars, students, and the public to describe cultural heritage collections fairly and thoroughly. This article provides an overview of successful ways to collaborate with those outside of traditional library units to create more diverse, equitable and inclusive descriptions of archival resources.

Keywords: metadata; crowdsourcing metadata; ethical cataloguing; ethical fieldwork; community-based fieldwork (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M11 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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