Semantic Metadata as Meaning Making: Examining #hashtags and Collection Level Metadata
Memory institutions and other organizations interested in preserving social media data are using a variety of collection level metadata to represent those materials. The aim of this paper is to start a dialogue within the metadata community about how metadata professionals can describe social media...
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| author | White, Hollie Gibbons, Leisa |
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| description | Memory institutions and other organizations interested in preserving social media data are using a variety of collection level metadata to represent those materials. The aim of this paper is to start a dialogue within the metadata community about how metadata professionals can describe social media collections in better ways to ensure that the semantic complexity of hashtags remain intact at the collection level. This paper explores how hashtags manifest semantic metadata and how that expression is formally described. A study was conducted using two datasets. The first dataset on hashtags as defined by professional literature was examined and categorized using thematic analysis. The second dataset collected metadata from a selection of Document the Now Twitter datasets and was categorized using Gilliland’s (2016) five categories of metadata. Findings delve into the use of collection level metadata to describe social media content. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-782672020-06-09T04:50:31Z Semantic Metadata as Meaning Making: Examining #hashtags and Collection Level Metadata White, Hollie Gibbons, Leisa Golub, Koraljka Zeng, Marcia Walk, Paul Oh, Sam Baker, Tom semantic metadata meaning making hashtags hashtag datasets collection level metadata constructivism 0807 - Library and Information Studies 2001 - Communication and Media Studies Memory institutions and other organizations interested in preserving social media data are using a variety of collection level metadata to represent those materials. The aim of this paper is to start a dialogue within the metadata community about how metadata professionals can describe social media collections in better ways to ensure that the semantic complexity of hashtags remain intact at the collection level. This paper explores how hashtags manifest semantic metadata and how that expression is formally described. A study was conducted using two datasets. The first dataset on hashtags as defined by professional literature was examined and categorized using thematic analysis. The second dataset collected metadata from a selection of Document the Now Twitter datasets and was categorized using Gilliland’s (2016) five categories of metadata. Findings delve into the use of collection level metadata to describe social media content. 2019 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/78267 https://dcpapers.dublincore.org/pubs/article/view/4035/2237 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative unknown |
| spellingShingle | semantic metadata meaning making hashtags hashtag datasets collection level metadata constructivism 0807 - Library and Information Studies 2001 - Communication and Media Studies White, Hollie Gibbons, Leisa Semantic Metadata as Meaning Making: Examining #hashtags and Collection Level Metadata |
| title | Semantic Metadata as Meaning Making: Examining #hashtags and Collection Level Metadata |
| title_full | Semantic Metadata as Meaning Making: Examining #hashtags and Collection Level Metadata |
| title_fullStr | Semantic Metadata as Meaning Making: Examining #hashtags and Collection Level Metadata |
| title_full_unstemmed | Semantic Metadata as Meaning Making: Examining #hashtags and Collection Level Metadata |
| title_short | Semantic Metadata as Meaning Making: Examining #hashtags and Collection Level Metadata |
| title_sort | semantic metadata as meaning making: examining #hashtags and collection level metadata |
| topic | semantic metadata meaning making hashtags hashtag datasets collection level metadata constructivism 0807 - Library and Information Studies 2001 - Communication and Media Studies |
| url | https://dcpapers.dublincore.org/pubs/article/view/4035/2237 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/78267 |