Bengtson, Jason A.2016-04-182016-04-182012-11-19http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32528Citation: Bengtson, Jason. "Imagining Emergent Metadata, Realizing the Emergent Web." Journal of Library Metadata 12.4 (2012) : 345-361. Print.While metadata is a key ingredient of machine-semantic technologies, it has drawbacks. As it is currently formed, metadata lacks dynamic responsiveness and requires top-down system modeling. The author proposes a schema and process of emergent metadata that will, if successful, allow metadata to respond to environmental conditions dynamically and to exhibit self-organizational features.This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the Journal of Library Metadata on 19 Nov 2012, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19386389.2012.735525.http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1938-6389/Complexity ScienceEmergenceInformation ScienceMetadataSearch and DiscoverySelf OrganizationArticle