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The digital age has transformed access to all kinds of educational content not only in text-based format but also digital images and other media. As learning technologists and librarians begin to organise these new media into digital collections for educational purposes, older problems associated with cataloguing and classifying non-text media have...

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... rationale behind this was to investigate not just the spellings of the tags and whether these exactly matched controlled terms but also if it was possible to capture the meaning of a tag in the controlled terms. Descriptions of categories and examples are provided in Table 1. Tag does not appear in either vocabulary list User tag given: barbed wire 11 ...

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