Searching for theory in metadata

Li, Ben

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Title

Searching for theory in metadata

Author(s)

Li, Ben

Issue Date

2013-02

Keyword(s)

• Metadata
• theory
• Standards
• bibliometrics and scholarly communication
• digital curation and preservation
• history and philosophy of information
• knowledge management
• information systems

Abstract

This paper argues to include descriptions of theories alongside metadata descriptions of data. It compares several metadata infrastructure standards for interdisciplinary collaboration that include or exclude theory, and finds that metadata infrastructures for some “soft” sciences are more explicit about embedded theories than some “hard” sciences. This paper concludes by proposing to borrow an approach from social sciences for use in the hard sciences in order to explicitly address theoretical ambiguity embedded in seemingly hard data.

Publisher

iSchools

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/36038

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/13216

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