TY - CONF

T1 - The least common denominator does not satisfy user’s needs

T2 - metadata schemes for digital audio archives

AU - Greifeneder, Elke Susanne

AU - Larsen, Bente

AU - Larsen, Birger

AU - Lund, Haakon

AU - Skov, Mette

N1 - IFLA WLIC 2014 - Lyon - Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge. Session 139 - User and Interface Challenges Related to Audiovisual and Multimedia Access - Audiovisual and Multimedia with Information Technology

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - This paper examines what metadata schemes are needed for radio material using the example of the LARM project. Based on several user studies in 2011, a metadata scheme has been implemented, which consists of three layers: archival metadata, LARM metadata and project-specific metadata. In late 2013 follow-up online interviews assessed the adoption of the metadata schemes and users’ understanding of the underlying philosophy. The interviews showed two things: first, despite being involved in building the scheme up, participants used the current metadata scheme on a trial and error basis and did rarely understand the underlying philosophy. Secondly, participants showed a surprisingly high accountability working with metadata meaning that archive providers should worry less about misuse of metadata and instead embrace user participation.

AB - This paper examines what metadata schemes are needed for radio material using the example of the LARM project. Based on several user studies in 2011, a metadata scheme has been implemented, which consists of three layers: archival metadata, LARM metadata and project-specific metadata. In late 2013 follow-up online interviews assessed the adoption of the metadata schemes and users’ understanding of the underlying philosophy. The interviews showed two things: first, despite being involved in building the scheme up, participants used the current metadata scheme on a trial and error basis and did rarely understand the underlying philosophy. Secondly, participants showed a surprisingly high accountability working with metadata meaning that archive providers should worry less about misuse of metadata and instead embrace user participation.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - metadata

KW - e-infrastructure

KW - information behaviour

KW - user-generated content

KW - audio

M3 - Paper

ER -