Mastodawn

There's something about 'generated' in CGDC that bothers me, that didn't when UGC was so hot in the mid-aughts. Maybe a post-LLM thing? Or that it mixes community research with preservation and sharing?

#TaNC

Is 'community collections' better? A commonwealth of community collections? CGDC seems a mix of items kept by communities and digitised, and born-digital content that's the result of community research, oral histories, outreach projects to gather metadata, memories, etc #TaNC

@mia In Europeana it was (maybe still is) called UMG - user generated content. Thanks for sharing your dissertation link!

@kiru what's the M in that?

@mia Sorry, I mixed it with a similar abbreviation I work with recently. Properly it is UGC - user generated content. See page 41 of https://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Share_your_data/Technical_requirements/EDM_Documentation/EDM_Definition_v5.2.7_042016.pdf

@kiru this makes me wonder if catalogues will need a 'MLGC' or 'AIGC' label soon

@mia In the latest modification of MARC21 there are new subfields to record provenance, that (I hope) will enable to accept values arrived from the community and record the source here. See https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bdapndxj.html.

@mia ... It is not the latest modification, but still quite recent (introduced in 2022).

@kiru I'd talked about this with Thurstan, our collections metadata standards manager, who pointed me to earlier docs like https://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/MARC%20RDA%20Working%20Group%20-%20Final%20Report.pdf