An Assessment of Google Books’ Metadata

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2012-02-28

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Taylor and Francis

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This article reports on a study of error rates found in the metadata records of texts scanned by the Google Books digitization project. A review of the author, title, publisher, and publication year metadata elements for 400 randomly selected Google Books records was undertaken. The results show 36% of sampled books in the digitization project contained metadata errors. This error rate is higher than one would expect to find in a typical library online catalog.

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Google Books, metadata, electronic books, digital library

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Journal of Library Metadata 12(1) 2012

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8 pages

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Author Posting. (c) Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2012. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis Group, LLC for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Library Metadata, Volume 12 Issue 1, February 2012.

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