Ferraioli, L.: ¬An exploratory study of metadata creation in a health care agency (2005)
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- Abstract
- Traditional paper documents, as containers of information, remain a primary source of organizational knowledge as well as function as vehicles of communication. Despite the increasing use of electronic mail and other digital technologies, the entrenchment of paper documents in the fabric of work practices demands that attention be paid to how they are managed for organizational effectiveness. A shift is occurring from the classical empiricist idea of a universe of knowledge to the historicist paradigm which embraces context and a belief that knowledge develops within knowledge domains or discourse communities. The workplace is likened to an information ecology where the study of personal classification schemes can be firmly positioned within an epistemological framework. This exploratory study of the personal metadata creation process builds grounded theory as it found that temporal, spatial, and contextual factors influenced the creation of three levels of metadata along a continuum of Abstract:ion. Loss of intellectual content may occur equally as a result of both high and low levels of Abstract:ion. Personal metadata were also found to reflect the participant's situational and domain specific knowledge. The 'epistemological potential of documents', therefore, provides an impetus for the scholarly inquiry of personal, human-created metadata by positioning such inquiry firmly within a pragmatic context.
