Citation:Bainbridge, D., Twidale, M.B. & Nichols, D.M. (2011). That's 'é' not 'þ' '?' or '☐': a user-driven context-aware approach to erroneous metadata in digital libraries. In JCDL ’11 Proceeding of the 11th Annual International ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Ottawa, Canada, June 13-17, 2011 (pp.39-48). New York: ACM.
In this paper we present a novel system for user-driven integration of name variants when interacting with web-based information systems. The growth and diversity of online information means that many users experience disambiguation and collocation errors in their information searching. We approach these issues via a client-side JavaScript browser extension that can reorganise web content and also integrate remote data sources. The system is illustrated through three worked examples using existing digital libraries.
