"How can document-genre metadata
improve information-access for large digital collections?"
Seminar med Kevin Crowston
Mandag den 27. juni kl. 14-16
Handelshøjskolen i Århus, lokale U30
Genre metadata facilitates information retrieval and use. For example, people rarely have to read every word to understand a document's meaning. Instead, they start by identifying the kinds of documents they are faced with, then use different types of documents in appropriate ways. For example, a grant proposal is used differently from a syllabus, a product brochure or a bank statement. Information-access systems would be more useful for many tasks if they could similarly distinguish the form and thus purpose of documents (that is, their genres). However, many aspects of form salient for physical documents may not be distinguishable for electronic documents and perhaps vice versa. Furthermore, it is not clear which aspects of genre users will find useful in an electronic environment.
Kevin Crowston er lektor på School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, New York og forsker i nye organisationsformers muligheder og sammenhænge med ny informationsteknologi.
Seminaret er organiseres i samarbejde med Center for Internetforskning, Århus Universitet og Center for Virksomhedskommunikation, Handelshøjskolen i Århus.
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