Improving Search Quality by Enhancing Access to Metadata

Has something been lost in the move towards federated searching and relevance ranking in academic library search interfaces? The richness of metadata and other KOSs such as classification schemes and controlled vocabularies is often not featured in LMS procurement. The ISKO STAC has set up a working group to develop a set of guidelines for academic libraries that are planning to procure a library management system. The purpose of the guidelines is to enable users to benefit from the intellectual effort that has been invested in assigning metadata to electronic resources. This paper reports on progress of the working group in its review of the literature and the plans for consultations with stakeholders.