The "Wicked Problem" of Neutral Description: Toward a Documentation Approach to Metadata Standards Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Kara Long, Santi Thompson, Sarah Potvin, and Monica Rivero. Increasingly, metadata standards have been recognized as constructed rather than neutral. In this article, we argue for the importance of a documentation approach to metadata standards creation as a codification of this growing recognition. By making design decisions explicit, the documentation approach dispels presumptions of neutrality and, drawing on the wicked problems theoretical framework, acknowledges the constructed nature of standards as clumsy solutions.

published proceedings

  • CATALOGING & CLASSIFICATION QUARTERLY

altmetric score

  • 3.85

author list (cited authors)

  • Long, K., Thompson, S., Potvin, S., & Rivero, M.

citation count

  • 4

complete list of authors

  • Long, Kara||Thompson, Santi||Potvin, Sarah||Rivero, Monica

publication date

  • April 2017