Cross-lingual Information Access Research Articles

Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) in Digital Repositories: An Exploratory Study of Metadata Use and Quality

Jung-ran Park is assistant professor at the College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University. Prior to joining Drexel University, she worked as a cataloger at Indiana State University. She received a Ph.D. in linguistics and an MLIS from the University of Hawaii. She has applied her linguistics background to her primary research areas in knowledge organization and representation, computer-mediated communication and cross-lingual information access. Dr. Park is currently the principal investigator of a grant project Creation and Metadata Quality Control across Digital Collections: Evaluation of Current Practices from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Cross-lingual Name and Subject Access

This paper considers issues surrounding name and subject access across languages and cultures, particularly mechanisms and knowledge organization tools (e.g., cataloging, metadata) for cross-lingual information access. The author examines current mechanisms for cross-lingual name and subject access and identifies major factors that hinder cross-lingual information access. The author provides examples from the Korean language that demonstrate the problems with cross-language name and subject access.