Catalog your books online. Gets work-to-work relationships! « The LibraryThing Blog. LibraryThing gets work-to-work relationships!
Today we’ve launched some new ways to display relationships between works. The concept covers works that contain other works, or are contained by them. Steve.Museum. XML Schemas to support the Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core Metadata in XML. XML Schemas provide a means for defining the structure of XML documents, including metadata.
XML Schema is a specification developed and maintained under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium. More information is available at See Notes on the W3C XML Schemas for Qualified Dublin Core for a description of the set of W3C XML Schemas which implement the XML encoding conventions described in Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML of 2 April 2003.
The following XML schemas are in use in projects or products using DCMI metadata: Currently recommended XML schemas These XML Schemas support the XML format described in Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML, version 2 April 2003, for the terms defined in DCMI Metadata Terms, version 14 January 2008. Simple DC XML schema, version 2002-12-12 This schema defines terms for Simple Dublin Core, i.e. the 15 elements from the namespace, with no use of encoding schemes or element refinements. Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Parts 1 to 6. Library of Congress >> MARC >> Understanding MARC Part I: What Does MARC Mean?
Part II: Why Is a MARC Record Necessary? Part III: MARC Terms and Their Definitions Part IV: Where do MARC Records Originate? Part V: MARC Data Issues Part VI: In Conclusion It is impossible these days to read a library journal, attend a library conference, or even have an informal chat with other librarians without hearing the phrases "MARC format," "MARC records," or "MARC-compatible. " This booklet will explain -- in the simplest terms possible -- what a MARC record is, and it will provide the basic information needed to understand and evaluate a MARC record. Free online reference management for clinicians and scientists. Library of Congress Classification Outline - Classification - Cataloging and Acquisitions. Skip navigation Suggestions enabled.
Cataloging Cultural Objects. Chapter 3: Physical Characteristics (Measurements/Materials and Techniques/State and Edition/Additional Physical Characteristics 3.1.1 Discussion Physical characteristics describe a work's appearance and the characteristics of its physical form.
Metadata elements addressed here include Measurements, Materials and Techniques, and State and Edition. Additional elements are discussed as Additional Physical Characteristics and may be required by museums and collecting institutions, but typically will not be needed by visual resources collections. DCMI About Us. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) supports shared innovation in metadata design and best practices across a broad range of purposes and business models.
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Burn the Catalog. January 20, 2004 Burn the Catalog I was doing a bit of last-minute refurbishment of my Honors seminar syllabus last week, trying to see if there were new books or articles on particular topics or themes that I might have overlooked.
I had also reorganized the syllabus somewhat and had one week that was a conceptual oddball of sorts, organized around a somewhat diffuse view of the causes of colonialism in Africa that is starting to be a major part of my current manuscript, and I was hunting for older materials that I might stitch together to explain my perspective. Using our library’s catalogue, Tripod, I was both impressed at how generally strong our collection is for a small liberal-arts college (shared with Bryn Mawr and Haverford) and frustrated at just how useless a typical electronic catalogue has become. Our librarians are eager to teach information literacy and research skills, but it’s hard to get the students to respond. Namespace. In computing, a namespace is a set of symbols that are used to organize objects of various kinds, so that these objects may be referred to by name.
Prominent examples include: Namespaces are commonly structured as hierarchies to allow reuse of names in different contexts. As an analogy, consider a system of naming of people where each person has a proper name, as well as a family name shared with their relatives. If, in each family, the names of family members are unique, then each person can be uniquely identified by the combination of first name and family name; there is only one Jane Doe, though there may be many Janes. Within the namespace of the Doe family, just "Jane" suffices to unambiguously designate this person, while within the "global" namespace of all people, the full name must be used.
In networking, the Domain Name System organizes websites (and other resources) into hierarchical namespaces. Name conflicts[edit] Element names are defined by the developer. Naming system[edit] XML namespace. XML namespaces are used for providing uniquely named elements and attributes in an XML document.
They are defined in a W3C recommendation.[1][2] An XML instance may contain element or attribute names from more than one XML vocabulary. If each vocabulary is given a namespace, the ambiguity between identically named elements or attributes can be resolved. A simple example would be to consider an XML instance that contained references to a customer and an ordered product. Metadata Principles and Practicalities. I.
Introduction The rapid changes in the means of information access occasioned by the emergence of the World Wide Web have spawned an upheaval in the means of describing and managing information resources. Metadata is a primary tool in this work, and an important link in the value chain of knowledge economies. Yet there is much confusion about how metadata should be integrated into information systems.
How is it to be created or extended? The authors hope to make explicit the strong foundations of agreement shared by two prominent metadata Initiatives: the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Learning Object Metadata (LOM) Working Group. The ideas in this paper are divided into two categories. II. A. A Metadata Registry for the Semantic Web. Abstract The Semantic Web activity is a W3C project whose goal is to enable a 'cooperative' Web where machines and humans can exchange electronic content that has clear-cut, unambiguous meaning.
This vision is based on the automated sharing of metadata terms across Web applications. Designing collections for storytelling: purpose, pathos, and poetry. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science—"Unity in diversity" Melanie Feinberg Information School, University of Texas at Austin, 1616 Guadalupe St., Suite 5.202, Austin, Texas 78701, USA Introduction While the various institutions of cultural heritage—libraries, archives, museums—may orient themselves toward the service of different purposes (for libraries, information access; for archives, preservation of information as evidence of the creator’s activities; for museums, research and education of culturally significant artifacts), they work toward these goals via similar means: they design collections.
All these institutions select artifacts to reside in their holdings, develop sophisticated systems for describing these artifacts, and create access mechanisms through which patrons can obtain either the artifacts themselves or the information that describes them, or both. This paper begins to answer these questions. Hidden Bias to Responsible Bias: An Approach to Information Systems Based on Haraway's Situated Knowledges. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science—"Featuring the Future" Melanie Feinberg Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA Introduction An enduring goal in information science has been to construct systems that represent information in an objective, unbiased manner. Everything is Miscellaneous. Thomas Mann (no, not that one) has a fascinating and important article about why tagging, folksonomies, and the rest of the hip Web 2.0 stuff is inadequate to meet the needs of scholars looking for information.
It is, at least informally, a response to the Calhoun Report. His example of trying to find information about “tribute payments in the Peloponnesian War” is classic and convincing: Finding what the scholar needs requires smart human guides and the smart guides that humans have created for scholars. RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use. D-Lib Magazine January/February 2010 Volume 16, Number 1/2Table of Contents RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use Printer-friendly Version Abstract The Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, due to be released this coming summer, has included since May 2007 a parallel effort to build Semantic Web enabled vocabularies.
Introduction RDA (Resource Description and Access) is a new standard for metadata describing resources held in the collections of libraries, archives, museums, and other information management organizations [RDA prospectus]. DCMI Metadata Terms. Archive. Replacing the Paper: The Twelve Rs of the e-Research Record - eResearch Blog. DCMI Metadata Basics. The word "metadata" means "data about data". Metadata articulates a context for objects of interest -- "resources" such as MP3 files, library books, or satellite images -- in the form of "resource descriptions".
As a tradition, resource description dates back to the earliest archives and library catalogs. The modern "metadata" field that gave rise to Dublin Core and other recent standards emerged with the Web revolution of the mid-1990s. Project: Terminology Database. ICArchives : Homepage : Home. School of Library, Archival and Information Studies - The University of British Columbia. : Master of Archival Studies : 2010-2011, Winter session, Term 1 : Luciana Duranti : IBLC room 481 : 604-822-2587 : drop by for quick questions before or after class or during the break, or make an appointment if you need more than five minutes : luciana.duranti@ubc.ca : The Luciana Duranti Students Pages contain the information relevant for the course.
You will be given the address and the information to login the restricted area on the first day of classes. The discussion list is a-555. : To give students an opportunity, building on the knowledge acquired in the first year courses, to explore in depth issues concerning the preservation of digital records by the creating organization/individual and/or its successor(s), such as an archival program or institution.
ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science.