Florida State to assess use of end-user metadata to update
knowledge organization systems
Drs. Besiki Stvilia and Corinne Jörgensen of the School of
Library & Information Studies at The Florida State University College of
Communication & Information have been awarded a research grant as
co-principal investigators of “Assessing the reuse value of socially
created metadata for image indexing.” The grant is funded by the Library
and Information Science Research Grant Program of the Online Computer Library
Center/Association for Library and Information Science Education (OCLC/ALISE).
Traditional thesauri and knowledge organization systems can
become quickly outdated because they exist within environments that are
continually changing. Acquiring the knowledge to update these systems and
modifying them to keep up with change is costly. There is a need to identify
inexpensive methods for the dynamic acquisition and integration of new
knowledge into these systems.
The objective of this study is to determine whether end-user
generated indexing terms can be used to improve the quality of an
expert-created controlled vocabulary. The project will evaluate the use of
socially created image indexing metadata from Flickr and the English Wikipedia
for updating the Thesaurus for Graphic Materials of the Prints and Photographs
Division of the Library of Congress. The project will also define and evaluate
novel methods and algorithms for generating a thesaurus from Flickr and
Wikipedia datasets.
Besiki Stvilia, Assistant Professor at the School of Library
& Information Studies at Florida State University, studies evolving
patterns of collaborative work organization and technology use in large
community based open information systems. He develops models for information
and metadata measurement, dynamics and effective intervention. Corinne
Jörgensen, Professor and Director of the School of Library & Information
Studies at Florida State University, is an internationally recognized scholar
in the areas of image indexing, image retrieval, and user image searching. She
studies images as cognitive and mediated objects in information systems.
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