Saturday, March 14th at 03:30 PM
PRESENTERS
* Jenny Benevento – Bento Artisanal Metadata
* Tom Conrad – Pandora Media Inc
* Abby Blachly – Librarything
DESCRIPTION
Web 2.0 is all about tagging, right? Many content types are not findable with user-generated metadata. More web projects are using controlled & expert created metadata to complement user tagging to enhance user experience, findability, social networking, & site popularity. We’ll show you how & why it can help you.
MONIQUE’S NOTES
Why you should/could use normalized metadata?
Users want to get shit done.
LibraryThing started because I guy wanted to share his book list and pulled the info from the US Library of Congress. That became social as more people wanted to do this. The Dewey number, bisac, etc. are fields of metadata that are pulled into the site in order to take marked records and to make it into an understandable, searchable archive.
Tagging is also present on the site so there’s a good mix of user-generated metadata along with normalized metadata. In addition, users are able to add controlled metadata for things like series titles.
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