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To make digital archives more accessible to industries, this study used tags given by cultural creative industries to items in digital archives to analyze the differences between the terms used by commercial users and scholars from the archive agency. We analyzed the self-created commercial tags (60%) and the tags adopted from academic terms (40%). The results showed that terms provided by the archive agency were still more likely to be based on domain knowledge. In comparison, the superordinate terms are more likely to be needed by the commercial users. This study suggests that the research findings of six types of semantic relationship and eight types of linked properties could be further transformed into metadata best practices for the digital archive agency, thus bridging the divide between the commercial tags and academic terms.
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Chen, SJ. (2011). User Tagging for Digital Archives: The Case of Commercial Keywords from the Grand Secretariat. In: Xing, C., Crestani, F., Rauber, A. (eds) Digital Libraries: For Cultural Heritage, Knowledge Dissemination, and Future Creation. ICADL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24826-9_21
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