James Baker: Descriptive Metadata: Investigating How It Was Made and Why That Matters

Описание: Descriptive Metadata: Investigating How It Was Made and Why That Matters
/ James Baker (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)

Collection metadata is made by people working in particular circumstances, at particular times, and in particular places. That metadata has an important role to play in research that seeks to understand and interpret collections. It can also be the subject of research itself. Knowing how our metadata was made can change how we use our metadata. In this talk, James Baker will describe his research into one early twentieth-century cataloguer, how their style was transmitted over space and time, and how this work opens up future directions for research into the plurality and multivocality of catalogue data.


Workshop Metadata-based Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, March 4–5, 2025, Prague