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Practical CataloguingAACR RDA and MARC21

This essential new textbook provides cataloguers with the skills needed for transition to Resource Description and Access (RDA). The book builds on John Bowman's highly regarded Essential Cataloguing and gives an introduction to Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) which provides the conceptual basis for RDA; discusses the differences between AACR2 and RDA; and shows the current state of play in MARC 21. Key topics are: introduction to catalogues and cataloguing standards the FRBRization of the catalogue bibliographic elements access points and headings RDA: the new standard its development structure and features AACR and RDA: the similarities and differences between the two standards the MARC21 record bringing it all together the birth of RDA and the death of MARC. The final chapter includes ten records displayed in AACR2 level 1 AACR2 level 2 RDA and MARC 21 making it easy to see the differences at a glance. There is also a fully explained worked example based on RDA Appendix M. Readership: Written at a time of transition in international cataloguing this book provides cataloguers and students with a background in general cataloguing principles the current code (AACR2) and format (MARC 21) and the new standard (RDA). The contextual chapters provide library managers with an up-to-date overview of the development of RDA in order to equip them to make the transition. The book will be essential reading for students of library and information studies and practising library and information professionals in all sectors. It will also be of great interest to the archives sector.

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Introduction to Knowledge Organisation

This book provides a complete introduction to the rapidly expanding field of Knowledge organization (KO) presenting historical precedents and theoretical foundations in a discursive intelligible form covering the philosophical linguistic and technical aspects. In the contemporary context of global information exchange through linked data Knowledge organization systems (KOS) need to be represented in standard inter-operable formats. Different formats for KOS representation including MARC Dublin Core SKOS and OWL are introduced as well as the application of Knowledge organization to a variety of activities and contexts: education encyclopedic knowledge the Internet libraries archives museums galleries and other institutions collecting and providing access to recorded knowledge. Key coverage includes: - ontology and epistemology in KO - KO structures: lists hierarchies facets... - KO types: tagging taxonomies thesauri classifications... - conceptual analysis of documents - applications in the digital age.

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Linked Data for Cultural Heritage

This book gathers a stellar list of contributors to help readers understand linked data concepts by examining practice and projects based in libraries archives and museums. Linked open data remains very much a work in progress and much of the progress has taken place within the domain of the cultural heritage institutions: libraries archives and museums. There is no question that the structure of linked data and the machine inferencing it supports shows great promise for discoverability. What will be the 'killer app' that breaks linked open data out to the wider world and accelerates its uptake? Perhaps it will be a project described in this volume. Content covered includes: a very simple description of linked data summing up its promises and challenges a survey of the use of linked data in significant projects across the cultural heritage domain including Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) practical discussion of migrating a catalogue from a MARC environment to one of linked data and the possibilities that open up in terms of the broader scholarly community reviewing and reimagining library thesauri metadata schemas and information discovery to look at how controlled vocabularies integrate library practice with linked data an examination of the role of authority control identifiers and vocabularies including use of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and the SPARQL query language Carol Jean Godby describes OCLC's experiments with Schema.org as the foundation for a model of library resource description expressed as linked data the development of the Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) data model and a description of the fundamental differences between MARC and BIBFRAME. Readership: This survey of the cultural heritage linked data landscape will be a key resource for metadata practitioners and researchers within all cultural heritage contexts and all students and academics within the information science and digital humanities fields.  

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Coding with XML for Efficiencies in Cataloging and MetadataPractical applications of XSD XSLT and Xquery

Even experienced cataloguers and copy cataloguers who know their way around the tags and strings of a MARC record need guidance when creating metadata for sharing bibliographic records or digital collections on the web. Likewise coders or new librarians coming from iSchool or software backgrounds need examples of how to use XLML or XSLT scripting with library records. That’s where this new handbook from the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) comes in. Librarians working in their code editors will want this resource with its 58 sample coding examples at their side. It covers essential background information with a quick review of XML basics transforming XML metadata in HTML schema languages and workflows for XML validation an introduction to XPath and XSLT cataloguing workflows using XSLT the basics of XQuery including use cases and XQuery expressions and functions working with strings and sequences including regular expressions.

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RDA and Serials Cataloguing

In this manual expert cataloguer Ed Jones shows you how to catalogue serials using the new cataloguing standard RDA: Resource Description and Access.Serials and continuing resources present a variety of unique challenges in bibliographic management from special issues and unnumbered supplements to recording the changes that a long-running periodical can experience over time. Easing cataloguers through the RDA: Resource Description and Access transition by showing the continuity with past practice serials cataloguing expert Jones frames the practice within the structure of the FRBR and FRAD conceptual models on which RDA is based. With serials 146; special considerations in mind this essential guide explains the familiarities and differences between AACR2 and RDA and demonstrates how serials cataloguers 146; work fits in the cooperative context of OCLC CONSER and NACO. Jones looks in detail at the process of cataloguing serials and ongoing integrating resources using RDA from attributes and relationships between works to identifying related entities. Finally looking at the possibilities offered by Linked Data he presents examples of how RDA records can ultimately engage with the Semantic Web.Key topics covered:160;Introduction to serials and serials cataloguing Getting to know RDA: changes from AACR2 Searching and the universe of serials Cataloguing serials and ongoing integrating resources using RDA General instructions relating to serials cataloguing using RDA and MARC 21 Attributes of resources (Manifestations and Items and the Works and Expressions they embody) Relationships between resources Identifying Works and Expressions Identifying related entities Online serials and CONSER provider-neutral records Ongoing integrating resources RDA and Linked Data.Readership: Occasional serials cataloguers and specialists alike. Serials and continuing resources present a variety of unique challenges in bibliographic management from special issues and unnumbered supplements to recording the changes that a long-running periodical can experience over time. Easing cataloguers through the RDA: Resource Description and Access transition by showing the continuity with past practice serials cataloguing expert Jones frames the practice within the structure of the FRBR and FRAD conceptual models on which RDA is based. With serials’ special considerations in mind he: explains the familiarities and differences between AACR2 and RDA; demonstrates how serials cataloguers’ work fits in the cooperative context of OCLC CONSER and NACO; presents examples of how RDA records can ultimately engage with the Semantic Web. Occasional serials cataloguers and specialists alike will find useful advice here as they explore the structure of the new cataloguing framework.

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Preserving Archives

A brand new and fully updated edition of this seminal work on archival preservation. Access to archival material – the documentary heritage of people all over the world that gives them their identity and ensures their rights – is dependent on the survival of fragile materials: paper parchment photographic materials audiovisual materials and most recently magnetic optical and increasingly digital formats. The primary importance of such survival is widely acknowledged but sometimes overlooked in a rush to provide ever better means of access. But without the basic material no services can be offered. Preservation is at the heart of archival activity. Archivists in all types of organizations face questions on how to plan a preservation strategy in less than perfect circumstances or deal with a sudden emergency. This book considers the causes of threats to the basic material outlines the preservation options available and offers flexible solutions applicable in a variety of situations. It offers a wide range of case studies and examples from international specialists.

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Reference and Information ServicesAn introduction

<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Designed to complement everyintroductory library reference course this is the perfect text for studentsand librarians looking to expand their personal reference knowledge teachingfailsafe methods for identifying important materials by matching specific typesof questions to the best available sources regardless of format. Guided by anational advisory board of educators and practitioners this thoroughly updatedtext expertly keeps up with new technologies and practices while remaininggrounded in the basics of reference work. Chapters on fundamental concepts major reference sources and special topics provide a solid foundation; thetext also offers fresh insight on core issues including:<o:p><ul><li>ethics readers&#146; advisory information literacy and other key aspects of referencelibrarianship; &#160;&#160;</li><li>selectingand evaluating reference materials with strategies for keeping up to date;</li><li>assessingand improving reference services;</li><li>guidanceon conducting reference interviews with a range of different library users including children and young adults;</li><li>anew discussion of reference as programming;</li><li>importantspecial reference topics such as Google search 24/7 reference and virtualreference; and</li><li>deliveringreference services across multiple platforms.&#160;</li></ul><o:p><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">As librarians experience achanging climate for all information services professionals in this bookCassell and Hiremath provide the tools needed to manage the ebb and flow ofchanging reference services in today&#146;s libraries.<o:p>|Designed to complement every introductory library reference course this is the perfect text for students and librarians looking to expand their personal reference knowledge teaching failsafe methods for identifying important materials by matching specific types of questions to the best available sources regardless of format. Guided by a national advisory board of educators and practitioners this thoroughly updated text expertly keeps up with new technologies and practices while remaining grounded in the basics of reference work. Chapters on fundamental concepts major reference sources and special topics provide a solid foundation; the text also offers fresh insight on core issues including: ethics readers’ advisory information literacy and other key aspects of reference librarianship;selecting and evaluating reference materials with strategies for keeping up to date;assessing and improving reference services;guidance on conducting reference interviews with a range of different library users including children and young adults;a new discussion of reference as programming;important special reference topics such as Google search 24/7 reference and virtual reference; anddelivering reference services across multiple platforms. As librarians experience a changing climate for all information services professionals in this book Cassell and Hiremath provide the tools needed to manage the ebb and flow of changing reference services in today’s libraries.

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