For my MLIS capstone team project, I built a crowdsourced tagging site for novels.
Using a tag wrangling process and dual include/exclude search interface inspired by the Archive of Our Own, we demonstrated how curating user-submitted tags into a detailed controlled vocabulary could improve library metadata, search, and discovery for fiction.
This workflow could be applied to any domain where it is difficult for catalogers to supply the metadata necessary to meet users’ search needs.
Read more about our Capstone project at fictionfilters.org →
