Final Two Reports in OCLC’s Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Series Released

Part Three and the Executive Summary were released today by OCLC Research.
Links to Part One and Part Two of the series are available at the bottom of this post.

Part Three

• Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Part 3: Recommendations and Readings (78 pages; PDF)
  by Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research and Rose Holley, National Library of Australia
• Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Executive Summary(20 pages; PDF)
  by Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research

In our first report, Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Musems, Part 1: Site Reviews, the 21-member RLG Partners Social Metadata Working Group reviewed 76 sites relevant to libraries, archives, and museums that supported such social media features as tagging, comments, reviews, images, videos, ratings, recommendations, lists, links to related articles, etc.

In our second report, Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Part 2: Survey Analysis, we analyzed the results from a survey of site managers conducted in October-November 2009.

In Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Part 3: Recommendations and Readings, our third and final report in the series, we provide recommendations on social metadata features most relevant to libraries, archives, and museums and an annotated reading list of the literature we consulted during our research. We believe it is riskier to do nothing and become irrelevant to our user communities than to start using social media features.

Additional Materials

• Introductory Video (via YouTube)

• Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums Webinar
  Held March 9, 2012
  27 PowerPoint Slides
• Video

• wmv (132 MB/1 hr. 15 min.)
• mp4 (19.8 MB/1 hr. 15 min.)
• iTunes

• Social Media for LAMs Facebook Page

• Background info about group by Karen Smith-Yoshimura (via OCLC Research Hanging Together Blog)

Part One and Part Two

• Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Part 2: Survey Analysis (January 16, 2012)

• Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Part 1: Site Reviews (September 7, 2011)

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