A Theory of Metadata Enriching and Filtering: Challenges and Opportunities to Implementation

This paper is informed by four years of research and 57 in-depth interview data analysis with practising librarians, researchers, metadata consultants and library users using a constructivist grounded theory method (Alemu, 2014). From the research, four overarching metadata principles, namely, metadata enriching, linking, openness and filtering emerged. The integration of these principles resulted in the emergence of a new theory of digital...