The effect of users' tagging motivation on the enlargement of digital educational resources metadata

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Highlights:

• Social tagging as an alternative way of characterizing educational resources.

• Users’ tagging motivation can affect the enlargement of metadata descriptions.

• A methodology proposed and applied to an existing LOR, namely OpenScienceResources.

• Describers produce tags that are significantly different from formal metadata.

• Describers outperformed categorizers by contributing new formal vocabulary terms.

摘要

•Social tagging as an alternative way of characterizing educational resources.•Users’ tagging motivation can affect the enlargement of metadata descriptions.•A methodology proposed and applied to an existing LOR, namely OpenScienceResources.•Describers produce tags that are significantly different from formal metadata.•Describers outperformed categorizers by contributing new formal vocabulary terms.

论文关键词:Educational resources,Social tagging,Folksonomy,User tagging motivation,Evaluation methodology,Evaluation results

论文评审过程:Available online 10 July 2013.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.06.026