Offers a comprehensive introduction for television professionals that need to understand metadata's purpose and technology. This book presents information for video production in an IT world; introduces metadata to people who have only heard of the word; and short and introductory - no technical knowledge necessary.
Providing a practical appraisal of e-books, this book addresses the key questions: Where do e-books come from and what are the key business models that support them? What needs to change before e-books become universally and easily used? What will the e-book landscape look like in ten years' time? And more.
Provides around 15, 000 readymade class numbers relating to Indian subjects and English language and literature. This title covers four Indic religions, namely Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism. It provides more than two hundred subdivisions for each of these religions class numbers.
A cataloging tool that includes the 22nd edition of the "Dewey Decimal Classification", as well as almost one thousand sets of class numbers and corresponding Library of Congress subject headings. This work is arranged in three sections: LC to Dewey, Dewey to LC, and LC subject headings to both.
A practical guide to the world of cataloging and classification. It incorporates the "2002 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition" (AACR2), MARC 21, the 22nd edition of "Dewey Decimal Classification", schedules of the LC Classifications, the Library of Congress Subject Headings, and the 18th edition of "Sears List of Subject Headings".
Providing practical overview of how cartographic resources can be cataloged using the standard of RDA, this guide makes for a smooth transition from AACR. It outlines the similarities and differences between the two and points out new or omitted rules to be aware of offering a comprehensive guide that can be used on a daily basis.
Intends to provide the basics of MARC 21 Bibliographic Format to the working professionals in the field of library and information Science. This title includes an overview on MARC 21 and its impact on practical cataloguing of printed as well as electronic and non-book materials. It is suitable for students of library and Information science.
Offers an introduction to the use of controlled vocabularies. This work presents readers with a 'how-to' guide to building controlled vocabulary tools, cataloguing and indexing cultural materials with terms and names from controlled vocabularies, and how to use vocabularies in search engines and databases to enhance discovery and retrieval online.
Presents a description of the various 'meeting points' between reader and material. This book traces the historical and technological developments that provide the background for the 'meeting'. It explores the factors that influenced both the physical form and the informational content of documents.
Giving a description of the various 'meeting points' between reader and material, this book traces the historical and technological developments that provide the background for the 'meeting', and explores the factors that influenced both the physical form and the informational content of documents.
Metadata, literally 'data about data, ' provides a means of indexing, accessing, preserving, and discovering digital resources. This book provides readers with an overview of metadata, its types, roles, and characteristics; and, a discussion of metadata as it relates to resources on the Web.
Designed as a simple companion to "AACR2", this book covers descriptive cataloguing for library school students, beginning cataloguers and information professionals. It is fully cross-referenced to "AACR2", taking into account the 2002 revisions, and also includes MARC21 coding and examples.
The 2010 release of Resource Description and Access is not the release of a revised standard; it represents a shift in the understanding of the cataloguing process. This title places RDA in context by examining its connection with its predecessor, AACR2, and looks at its relationship to internationally accepted principles, standards and models.
Provides the tools and guidance needed to create, organize and manage digital assets effectively. This work includes such topics as: information resource attributes; metadata for information retrieval; metadata sources and quality; economics and management of metadata; knowledge organization systems; the Semantic Web; and books and e-books.
This concise version conveys the essence and basic principles of AACR2 while simplifying the rules to make them more accessible. Those rules taken from the full text have been rewritten and supplied with new examples designed to highlight those more commonly encountered library materials.
LCSH are increasingly seen as 'the' English language controlled vocabulary, despite their lack of a theoretical foundation, and their evident US bias. This title features topics including, background and history of LCSH; subject heading lists; structure and display in LCSH; form of entry; application of LCSH; document analysis; and, main headings.
Introduces descriptive and subject cataloguing and classification as it is practised, and also introduces Resource Description and Access. This book covers: library cataloguing in the digital era; descriptive cataloguing; subject cataloguing; encoding catalogue records; and, sustaining and supporting the catalogue process.
Offering a broad-based overview of the approaches and tools used in the structuring and dissemination of knowledge, this book discusses the nature, structuring and description of knowledge. It explores different types of knowledge organization systems and considers some of the management issues associated with such systems.
In the world of Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web, what is the position of the library catalogue? This guide puts together by a team of international experts who will assist librarians and information professionals in customizing their catalogues to meet the needs of the internet generation and to enable their library catalogue for the Semantic Web.
Features coverage of FRBR (Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records) and FRAD (Functional Requirements of Authority Data), on which various rules are built, and explores how RDA elements can be incorporated into MARC21. This book includes such chapters as introduction to catalogs and cataloging standards.
Explores the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. The book investigates a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification and race classification under apartheid in South Africa.
Introduces the essentials of classification as used for information processing. This book is suitable for students of information work and to those inside or outside the information profession who need to understand the manner in which classification can be utilized to facilitate and enhance organisation and retrieval.
A guide to the Library of Congress classification system and its applications. After introducing the system and giving a brief history of its development, the author presents the principles, structure and format of the scheme. Examples are used throughout.
Deals with the application of various methods and concepts, such as Ontologies and Taxonomies, as well as Thesauri - to the ordering of knowledge based on primary information. This book examines the study of Ontologies, Taxonomies and Thesauri from the perspective of Systematics and General Systems Theory.