TY - GEN
T1 - The impact of user corrections on a crawl-based digital library
T2 - 10th IEEE/EAI International Conference on Collaborative Computing, CollaborateCom 2014
AU - Wu, Jian
AU - Williams, Kyle
AU - Khabsa, Madian
AU - Giles, C. Lee
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 ICST.
PY - 2015/1/19
Y1 - 2015/1/19
N2 - CiteSeerX is a crawl-based digital library search engine providing free access to more than 4 million academic papers. Since metadata in the digital library is obtained through automatic extraction, it is inevitable that errors will occur. CiteSeerX offers a feature allowing registered users to correct paper metadata including titles, authors, abstracts, publication years, venues, etc. We claim that user corrections, as a form of crowd-collaboration, provide a useful and efficient way to improve metadata quality and the impact of the digital library. As evidence to support this claim, we investigate user corrections from the last 5 years and analyze: the nature of the corrections; the quality of the corrections; and the impact of the corrections on downloads.
AB - CiteSeerX is a crawl-based digital library search engine providing free access to more than 4 million academic papers. Since metadata in the digital library is obtained through automatic extraction, it is inevitable that errors will occur. CiteSeerX offers a feature allowing registered users to correct paper metadata including titles, authors, abstracts, publication years, venues, etc. We claim that user corrections, as a form of crowd-collaboration, provide a useful and efficient way to improve metadata quality and the impact of the digital library. As evidence to support this claim, we investigate user corrections from the last 5 years and analyze: the nature of the corrections; the quality of the corrections; and the impact of the corrections on downloads.
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U2 - 10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2014.257563
DO - 10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2014.257563
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84923013374
T3 - CollaborateCom 2014 - Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing
SP - 171
EP - 176
BT - CollaborateCom 2014 - Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 22 October 2014 through 25 October 2014
ER -