Document (#38888)

Author

Pope, J.T.
Holley, R.P.

Title

Google Book Search and metadata

Source

Cataloging and classification quarterly. 49(2011) no.1, S.1-13

Year

2011

Abstract

This article summarizes published documents on metadata provided by Google for books scanned as part of the Google Book Search (GBS) project and provides suggestions for improvement. The faulty, misleading, and confusing metadata in current Google records can pose potentially serious problems for users of GBS. Google admits that it took data, which proved to be inaccurate, from many sources and is attempting to correct errors. Some argue that metadata is not needed with keyword searching; but optical character recognition (OCR) errors, synonym control, and materials in foreign languages make reliable metadata a requirement for academic researchers. The authors recommend that users should be able to submit error reports to Google to correct faulty metadata.

Theme

Formalerschließung
Metadaten

Object

Google Book Search

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