@inproceedings{10911, keywords = {Digital archives, Digital collections, Digital curation, Digital libraries, Fan-created websites, Intangible cultural heritage, Intangible cultural heritages, Japanese popular culture (pop-culture), Linked data, Linked open data, Manga, Memory institutions, Metadata, Metadata aggregation, Pop culture, Semantics, Tangible, Websites}, author = {S. Sugimoto and W. Monika and S. Kiryakos and T. Mihara and C. Wijesundara and M. Nagamori}, title = {Metadata models for organizing digital archives on the web: Metadata-centric projects at tsukuba and lessons learned}, abstract = {There exist many digital collections of cultural and historical resources, referred to as digital archives in this paper. Domains of digital archives are expanding from traditional cultural heritage objects to new areas such as popular culture and intangible entities. Though it is known that metadata models and authority records, such as subject vocabularies, are essential in building digital archives, they are not yet well established in these new domains. Another crucial issue is semantic linking among resources within a digital archive and across digital archives. Metadata aggregation is an essential aspect for the resource linking. This paper overviews three metadata-centric on-going research projects by the authors and discusses some lessons learned from them. The subject domains of these research projects are disaster records of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, Japanese popular culture such as Manga, Anime and Games, and cultural heritage resources in South and Southeast Asia. The main goal of this paper is not to report on these projects as completed research, but to discuss issues of metadata models and aggregation which are important in organizing digital archives in the web-based information environment.}, booktitle = {Proc. Int. Conf. Dublin Core Metadata Appl.}, volume = {2018-September}, pages = {95-105}, publisher = {Dublin Core metadata initiative}, school = {Dublin Core metadata initiative}, isbn = {19391358 (ISSN)}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85056837428&partnerID=40&md5=37a4b1c2a19a2095bc0a9ba478c38871}, note = {Journal Abbreviation: Proc. Int. Conf. Dublin Core Metadata Appl.}, }