Examining User-Created Description in the Archival Profession

Gorzalski, Matthew J

doi:10.1080/15332748.2013.866858

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“…With the social and collaborative nature of tagging, researchers in humanities utilize tagging in their research process and activities to connect works, develop shared interpretations, and exchange ideas (Dunn & Hedges, ; Ridge, ). Such a change of scholarly activities in the humanities has led to the implementation of tagging in many digitized collections of primary resources in order to facilitate information access and research (Dunn & Hedges, ; Gorzalski, ; Oomen et al., ; Smith‐Yoshimura & Shein, ).…”

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Characteristics of tagging behavior in digitized humanities online collections

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The purpose of this study was to examine user tags that describe digitized archival collections in the field of humanities. A collection of 8,310 tags from a digital portal (Nineteenth‐Century Electronic Scholarship, NINES) was analyzed to find out what attributes of primary historical resources users described with tags. Tags were categorized to identify which tags describe the content of the resource, the resource itself, and subjective aspects (e.g., usage or emotion). The study's findings revealed that over half were content‐related; tags representing opinion, usage context, or self‐reference, however, reflected only a small percentage. The study further found that terms related to genre or physical format of a resource were frequently used in describing primary archival resources. It was also learned that nontextual resources had lower numbers of content‐related tags and higher numbers of document‐related tags than textual resources and bibliographic materials; moreover, textual resources tended to have more user‐context‐related tags than other resources. These findings help explain users' tagging behavior and resource interpretation in primary resources in the humanities. Such information provided through tags helps information professionals decide to what extent indexing archival and cultural resources should be done for resource description and discovery, and understand users' terminology.

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confidence: 99%