David Miller

Bio: David Miller is an academic researcher from Curry College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cataloging & Subject (documents). The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications receiving 107 citations.

Wynar's Introduction to cataloging and classification

Abstract: This revised edition offers practitioners and students of library and information science a practical guide to the world of cataloguing and classification as it stands at the beginning of the 21st century. It emphasizes online catalogues and cataloguing, with all the attendant terminology. The author addresses such vital issues as Internet cataloguing, international access control, metadata, and ontologies. A new chapter, "Encoding", has been added to introduce users to the area of mark-up language that allows data to be read by computer and displayed online. Emphasis in this chapter is on "MARC 21". The chapter on "Description" reflects the major conceptual shift in description of resources with a new organization based on the eight areas of the "International Standard Bibliographic Description" (ISBD) rather than according to the type of material being catalogued. Other changes covered by the work encompass the 1998 revision of the "Anglio-American Cataloguing Rules", second edition (AACR2), the 21st edition of "Dewey Decimal Classification", current schedules of the LC Classifications, the latest "Library of Congress Subject Headings", and the 17th edition of "Sears List of Subject Headings". In addition, the section on adminstrative issues has been completely rewritten, and suggested readings have been updated in all chapters.

“Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On”: How Does FRBR Fit Performing Arts?

Abstract: SUMMARY Since it is obviously impossible to “hold” live performances in library collections (in contrast to recorded performances and motion pictures), such creations are barely accounted for in library catalogues and cataloging prescriptions, even as a topic in subject headings. The way AACR and the Anglo-American cataloging tradition deals with performing arts is discussed at length. Conversely, specialized institutions have developed their own rules for the description of live performances: the Dance Heritage Coalition (New York) creates authority records for choreographic works, and the Departement des Arts du Spectacle at Bibliotheque nationale de France creates bibliographic records for theatrical, operatic, and choreographic performances. As a conclusion, a tentative modeling of performing arts as bibliographic entities, strictly based on FRBR, is proposed.

Out from under : Form/genre access in LCSH

Abstract: SUMMARY The provisions for access to genres and forms of library materials in LCSH are examined through a survey of Library of Congress policy over the century. This article focuses on main headings for literature and moving-image materials, and form subdivisions. Policy documents in this area have become steadily more elaborate and explicit in their instructions, indicating an increased awareness of the importance of form and genre to the library community at large. Nevertheless, there remain doubts as to whether a general subject vocabulary is best suited to provide the full spectrum of form/genre access as well.

Access to Form Data in Online Catalogs

Abstract: The Library of Congress’s (LC’s) recent implementation of subfield v — “form subdivision”—in subject heading strings (USMARC bibliographic fields 600–651) has raised the collective consciousness of catalogers about the many questions that remain unresolved regarding the provision of access to form data in online catalogs. These questions are shared by thesaurus builders, system designers, public services librarians, and, perhaps unknowingly, by searchers.

The SACO Program in the Lives of Our Institutions

Abstract: This article reports the results of a survey sent to libraries and other institutions that have been active participants in the SACO (Subject Authority Cooperative) Program, a component of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging. The intent was to discover the ways in which SACO participation is related to the intellectual and cultural lives of libraries' home institutions or communities, and the nature and extent of interaction between those preparing SACO proposals and other stakeholders. Results indicate multiple ways in which SACO work reflects broader institutional life. Interaction is mainly limited to library or professional colleagues, and varies in nature.

Automatic Extraction of Useful Facet Hierarchies from Text Databases

Abstract: Databases of text and text-annotated data constitute a significant fraction of the information available in electronic form. Searching and browsing are the typical ways that users locate items of interest in such databases. Faceted interfaces represent a new powerful paradigm that proved to be a successful complement to keyword searching. Thus far, the identification of the facets was either a manual procedure, or relied on apriori knowledge of the facets that can potentially appear in the underlying collection. In this paper, we present an unsupervised technique for automatic extraction of facets useful for browsing text databases. In particular, we observe, through a pilot study, that facet terms rarely appear in text documents, showing that we need external resources to identify useful facet terms. For this, we first identify important phrases in each document. Then, we expand each phrase with ";context"; phrases using external resources, such as WordNet and Wikipedia, causing facet terms to appear in the expanded database. Finally, we compare the term distributions in the original database and the expanded database to identify the terms that can be used to construct browsing facets. Our extensive user studies, using the Amazon Mechanical Turk service, show that our techniques produce facets with high precision and recall that are superior to existing approaches and help users locate interesting items faster.

A framework for contextual information in digital collections

Abstract: Purpose – This paper sets out to investigate the meaning, role and implications of contextual information associated with digital collections.Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on an extensive review and analysis of both the scholarly literature from many disciplines about the concept of context and the professional literature (including standards) related to the description of information artifacts. The paper provides an analysis of context, distinguishing three main ways in which that term has been used within the scholarly literature. It then discusses contextual information within digital collections, and presents a framework for contextual information. It goes on to discuss existing standards and guidance documents for encoding information related to the nine classes of contextual entities, concluding with a discussion of potential implications for descriptive practices through the lifecycle of digital objects.Findings – The paper presents a framework for contextual information that is...

FACeTOR: cost-driven exploration of faceted query results

Abstract: Faceted navigation is being increasingly employed as an effective technique for exploring large query results on structured databases. This technique of mitigating information-overload leverages metadata of the query results to provide users with facet conditions that can be used to progressively refine the user's query and filter the query results. However, the number of facet conditions can be quite large, thereby increasing the burden on the user. We present the FACeTOR system that proposes a cost-based approach to faceted navigation. At each step of the navigation, the user is presented with a subset of all possible facet conditions that are selected such that the overall expected navigation cost is minimized and every result is guaranteed to be reachable by a facet condition. We prove that the problem of selecting the optimal facet conditions at each navigation step is NP-Hard, and subsequently present two intuitive heuristics employed by FACeTOR. Our user study at Amazon Mechanical Turk shows that FACeTOR reduces the user navigation time compared to the cutting edge commercial and academic faceted search algorithms. The user study also confirms the validity of our cost model. We also present the results of an extensive experimental evaluation on the performance of the proposed approach using two real datasets. FACeTOR is available at http://db.cse.buffalo.edu/facetor/.

皇子ハムレット = Hamlet, prince of Denmark

Abstract: philip edwards aims to bring the reader, playgoer and director of Hamlet into the closest pos­ sible contact with Shakespeare’s most famous and most perplexing play. in his introduction edwards considers the possibility that Shakespeare made important alterations to Hamlet as it neared production, creating differences between the two early texts, quarto and Folio. edwards concentrates on essentials, dealing succinctly with the huge volume of commentary and con­ troversy which the play has provoked and offering a way forward which enables us once again to recognise its full tragic energy. For this updated edition, robert hapgood has added a new section on prevailing critical and performance approaches to the play. he discusses recent film and stage performances, actors of the hamlet role as well as directors of the play; his account of new scholarship stresses the role of remembering and forgetting in the play, and the impact of feminist and performance studies.