Abstract
In the first year since the launch of the HSS Commons, members have added over 100 publications and the features of the repository’s design are beginning to manifest. Building from Kim Martin’s talk on the possibilities for serendipity in browsing the Commons (Martin, 2022), I explore the descriptive metadata for this first cohort of publications, with particular focus on author-supplied keywords. Information studies predicts that author-supplied metadata enacts diverse sense of the intent and operation of fields, a tendency toward very high-level or general terminology, and the relevance of interaction design choices. This paper presents the metadata practices already visible in the HSS Commons and suggests interaction and maintenance design that can facilitate serendipitous discovery without compromising on the usability and creativity of the platform.
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