Topics and Trends in Metadata Research
While the body of research on metadata has grown substantially, there has been a lack of systematic analysis of the field of metadata. In this study, we attempt to fill this gap by examining metadata literature spanning the past 20 years. With the combination of a text mining technique, topic mode...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1633/JISTaP.2018.6.4.4 |
| Summary: | While the body of research on metadata has grown substantially, there has been a lack of systematic analysis of the
field of metadata. In this study, we attempt to fill this gap by examining metadata literature spanning the past 20 years.
With the combination of a text mining technique, topic modeling, and network analysis, we analyzed 2,713 scholarly
papers on metadata published between 1995 and 2014 and identified main topics and trends in metadata research. As
the result of topic modeling, 20 topics were discovered and, among those, the most prominent topics were reviewed in
detail. In addition, the changes over time in the topic composition, in terms of both the relative topic proportions and the
structure of topic networks, were traced to find past and emerging trends in research. The results show that a number of
core themes in metadata research have been established over the past decades and the field has advanced, embracing
and responding to the dynamic changes in information environments as well as new developments in the professional
field. |
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| ISSN: | 2287-9099 2287-4577 |