title: Evaluating a Taxonomy for Video Game Development Artifacts: Archival Taxonomies in Highly Innovative Domains
creators: Schmalz Marc Kylie Snyder Lidia Morris Corey Cherrington Tara Disher Jin Lee
abstract: Digital game development is innovative and intersectional, producing cultural texts by developing new technology and spanning physical and digital media in a relatively unexplored domain that has become academically legitimized only relatively recently. As such, it offers fertile ground for designing and evaluating structures to help creators, information professionals, and other users organize and share the domain, and to expand our knowledge of knowledge organization as well. Our participants were tasked with classifying digital game development artifacts from one online archive and two physical archives. The resulting data were analyzed with mixed methods, generating recommendations for improvements to the taxonomy—including changes to terms, structure, and guidance—and insights on evaluation framework.
keywords: metadata taxonomy evaluation video games