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The Choice Is Yours! Researchers Assign Subject Metadata To Their Own Materials In Insitutional Repositories, Maira Bundza Aug 2012

The Choice Is Yours! Researchers Assign Subject Metadata To Their Own Materials In Insitutional Repositories, Maira Bundza

Maira Bundza

The Digital Commons platform for institutional repositories provides a three-tiered taxonomy of academic disciplines for each item submitted to the repository. Since faculty and departmental administrators across campuses are encouraged to submit materials to the institutional repository themselves, they must also assign disciplines or subject categories for their own work. The expandable drop-down menu of about 1,000 categories is easy to use, and facilitates the growth of the institutional repository and access to the materials through the Internet.


Online Image Tagging System, Malak Alshawabkeh, David Kaeli Apr 2012

Online Image Tagging System, Malak Alshawabkeh, David Kaeli

David Kaeli

Online Image Tagging is a developed software that allows users of the CenSSIS Image Database to associate detailed metadata with specific regions of images, a process we refer to as "Image Tagging." The process of image tagging involves using the Image Tagging interface to draw an outline around a region of interest in an image. Once the area has been selected, a label can be placed on it and additional metadata can be associated with it. The metadata can contain custom XML tags in addition to the standard XML elements that the general tag data is stored in. Eventually, users …