Paper Info
Title
The impact of user corrections on a crawl-based digital library: A CiteSeerX perspective
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2014.257563
CollaborateCom
Keywords
Field
DocType
citeseerx,digital libraries,paper metadata correction,crawl-based digital library search engine,crowd-collaboration,user corrections,meta data,groupware,search engines,history
Metadata quality,Metadata,World Wide Web,Search engine,Information retrieval,Computer science,Digital library
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jian Wu1226.11
Kyle Williams220821.61
Madian Khabsa323718.81
C. Lee Giles4111541549.48