id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16487 Yang, Le Metadata Effectiveness in Internet Discovery: An Analysis of Digital Collection Metadata Elements and Internet Search Engine Keywords 2016-01-01 13 .pdf application/pdf 6243 234 45 This study analyzed digital item metadata and keywords from Internet search engines to learn what metadata elements actually facilitate dis- covery of digital collections through Internet keyword searching and how significantly each metadata element affects the discovery of items in a digital repository. Using Google Analytics on Texas Tech University Libraries’ digital collections, this study extracts the digital content that is frequently visited by search engine traffic, analyzes the valid keywords that are entered in search engines, and compares keywords against implemented values of metadata elements. cache/crl-16487.pdf txt/crl-16487.txt