Invited Talk: A crowd sourcing approach for metadata correction
The first mission of the Universal Digital Library is to create a free-to-read, searchable collection of ten million books, available anytime, anywhere to anyone in the world with internet access. UDL partners have made great strides towards this goal. Over 1.7 million books have been digitized and hosted at partner sites all over the world. One of the challenges has been the metadata for these digital books. The metadata was created for the most part by scanning operators who are not cataloging experts. The resulting metadata is of varying quality. Metadata needs to be of good quality to ensure that a user who is searching for a particular book is able to find and read it online. Till all the books in the UDL in all the languages are OCR'd and their symbolic text is indexed and searchable, the metadata is the main link between the user and the digital book. This talk will focus on using crowdsourcing to update and create better quality metadata for UDL books.
Invited Speaker:
Ram C. Konduru
Ram Konduru is the Director of New Initiatives for the Universal Digital Library at Carnegie Mellon University. In this role he works with the UDL partners to initiate new projects. His most recent projects were the digitization of the rare book collections in India and Qatar. Mr. Konduru is also responsible for the collaboration between UDL partners all over the world. He has 20 years of experience in IT management. Prior to joining the UDL team at Carnegie Mellon University, he worked as a management consultant helping multinational companies with their global IT strategy design and implementation. Mr.Konduru received his MBA with a major in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and communication from the University of Madras. |
