A Utilization Model of Users' Metadata in Libraries

The purpose of this paper is to define a utilization model of meaningful users' tags in subject indexing work in libraries. The research work was originally performed with a quantitative method; a large number of relations (tag–bibliographic record) were examined and analyzed, resulting in a definition of the classes of the model. This model was attempted to be verified by a survey addressed to cataloguers in Greek libraries. This paper is based on the principle that the users' collaboration and their vocabulary provide useful feedback for the enhancement of the subject description of the documents.