Purpose

In the absence of a working model for describing, managing and archiving the human library resources, this study aims to attempt a practical approach that will provide all the necessary information to the library users, library professionals and researchers.

Design/methodology/approach

Initially, different metadata standards, archival projects and attributes of the human books were reviewed to identify appropriate metadata standards that accurately describe the resources of the human library. A free and open-source software; DSpace was considered for implementing newly defined metadata schema in this study. Thereafter, a set of new subject entries was incorporated to standardize the contents of the human library.

Findings

This study finds that the widely used metadata schema – Dublin Core (DC) is not appropriate to describe the contents of the human book. It shows that selected metadata elements from the types – person and event of schema.org can be used for describing, organizing and archiving the resources of the human library. It further highlights that existing subject entries are not sufficient to standardize the contents of these types of resources.

Research limitations/implications

Two metadata fields in DSpace are strongly recommended by the DSpace community to consider in the input-forms.xml file, that is why the study could not completely omit DC metadata elements in describing human books.

Originality/value

The study provides a roadmap to the library professionals on the inclusion of new metadata schemas in describing the uniquely featured resources of the library.

中文翻译：

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为人类图书馆设计元数据模式：原型

目的

在缺乏用于描述、管理和归档人类图书馆资源的工作模型的情况下，本研究旨在尝试一种实用的方法，为图书馆用户、图书馆专业人员和研究人员提供所有必要的信息。

设计/方法/方法

最初，审查了人类书籍的不同元数据标准、档案项目和属性，以确定准确描述人类图书馆资源的适当元数据标准。一个免费的开源软件；在本研究中，DSpace 被考虑用于实施新定义的元数据模式。此后，一组新的主题条目被纳入以标准化人类图书馆的内容。

发现

本研究发现，广泛使用的元数据模式——都柏林核心 (DC) 并不适合描述人类书籍的内容。它表明从 schema.org 的人物和事件类型中选择的元数据元素可用于描述、组织和归档人类图书馆的资源。它进一步强调现有的主题条目不足以标准化这些类型资源的内容。

研究限制/影响

DSpace 社区强烈建议在 input-forms.xml 文件中考虑 DSpace 中的两个元数据字段，这就是为什么该研究在描述人类书籍时不能完全省略 DC 元数据元素的原因。

原创性/价值

该研究为图书馆专业人员提供了一个路线图，将新的元数据模式纳入描述图书馆的独特资源。