Routes Travel And Translation In The Late Twentieth Century

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International federation of library associations and institutions

Open educational resources repositories literature review - Towards a comprehensive quality approaches framework

Forget memory: Creating better lives for people with dementia

Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities

Introduction. The convergence of libraries, archives and museums is an evolving phenomenon that has garnered increased attention in the literature and professional practice over the past decade. To date, little research exists documenting the experiences of these institutions as they engage in different forms of collaboration and convergence. Method. Using a series of on-site, semi-structured interviews of professionals conducted in 2010 and 2011, the study examined initiatives involving different forms of collaboration and convergence, and different stages of the process in two institutions in Canada and three in New Zealand. Analysis. The interviews were audio recorded and a descriptive summary of each interview was prepared. We examined the summaries and identified themes within and across the institutions. Results. Findings suggest the motivations that led to the various projects reflected the discourse, beliefs, and values of the professions at the time the projects took place, and occasionally, administrative expediency. Aspects that emerged from the interviews correlate broadly to six themes: to serve users better; to support scholarly activity; to take advantage of technological developments; to take into account the need for

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From Coexistence to Convergence: Studying Partnerships and Collaboration among Libraries, Archives and Museums

While backlogs have existed in libraries and the literature that describes them, the decline in the acquisition of physical collections relative to digital resources, as well as the availability of cataloging copy has called into question the continued viability and relevance of arrearages. Yet, at a time of economic restraint, a rethinking of library operations is timely, if not urgent. What does nearly sixty years of research tell us about materials that are removed from cataloging workflow pending availability of a bibliographic record? This article analyzes the characteristics of, and reasons for, arrearages, and assesses approaches to reducing or eliminating backlogs.

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Mountains to Molehills: The Past, Present, and Future of Cataloging Backlogs

SUMMARY With the proliferation of digitized resources accessible internationally via Internet and Intranet knowledge bases and a pressing need to develop more sophisticated tools for the identification and retrieval of electronic resources, both general purpose and domain-specific metadata schemes have assumed a particular prominence. This has resulted in a growing number of online repositories that must be accessed using terminology that would be considered unfamiliar to most searchers. Assuming that a natural language “gateway” requiring no prior knowledge of specific metadata tagging could facilitate cross-repository searching, end-users were engaged in focus group testing of a “namespace” of common categories derived from nine metadata schemes. Findings and their implications within an international context are presented.

Designing a Common Namespace for Searching Metadata-Enabled Knowledge Repositories: An International Perspective

SUMMARY The historical interweaving of evolving trends and applications in metadata and bibliographic control seems largely absent from the literature. To address this apparent gap in perspective, some historic and more recent developments related to each are traced, along with some speculation about future directions. Cataloguing rules are ancestors to the current lineage of bibliographic standards. Metadata schemas have been developed to meet the needs of particular fields or domains and to support a variety of functions related to resource discovery. While differences between the tools of bibliographic control and of metadata application still remain, the similarities have become sufficient to warrant a confluence in terminology and definition. While internationally determined codes and standards have fostered the goal of universal bibliographic control, syntactic structures, semantic element sets, transmission protocols, cross-schema mappings, and metadata harvesting tools have been instrumental to re...

Metadata and Bibliographic Control: Soul-Mates or Two Solitudes?

From the time of the earliest catalogs documenting private collections, to the present proliferation of repositories of material and digital objects, the bibliographic record as an aggregation of lgical and physical characteristics of a resource has prevailed. The development of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) conceptual model introduced a shift in focus away from the record as a whole to component pieces of data (or disaggregated data) where those data elements have the potential to be shared and used in diverse, even novel ways. Tim Berners-Lee's “rules” underlying the Open Linked Data Project offer an opportunity for FRBR-compliant, quality bibliographic data to be exposed to the digital universe via the Semantic Web. Context and potential for seizing this advantage are explored.

Lynne C. Howarth

Papers

From Coexistence to Convergence: Studying Partnerships and Collaboration among Libraries, Archives and Museums

Mountains to Molehills: The Past, Present, and Future of Cataloging Backlogs

Designing a Common Namespace for Searching Metadata-Enabled Knowledge Repositories: An International Perspective

Metadata and Bibliographic Control: Soul-Mates or Two Solitudes?

FRBR and Linked Data: Connecting FRBR and Linked Data