Phillipa Barlow

Bio: Phillipa Barlow is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Film genre. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 3 citations.

Film genres through different lenses: Mapping commonly used film vocabularies onto the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Abstract: Film genre is used in the “everyday” description of films, as well as by professional intermediaries, such as critics, curators, and librarians. This article examines seven film genre vocabularies used to describe and organize motion picture collections from across the spectrum of environmental and functional contexts: genre lists from two streaming services, the list used for the International Movie Database, those genres included on the “film genres” page of Wikipedia, the “professional” vocabularies of three film institutes (in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, respectively), as well as that developed by the Library of Congress, that is, its Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms (LCGFT), which covers films as well as other materials. The six nonlibrary genre vocabularies were mapped to the LCGFT, with degrees of alignment determined using a seven-point matching scale for each term. The most commonly mapped genres, as well as those that did not map to LCGFT at all, are identified and analyzed. Considerable nonalignment between most of the nonlibrary vocabularies and LCGFT was found; a range of likely factors involved is discussed, with the “professional” library and curatorial vocabularies not necessarily being more aligned. Various genres that did not map to LCGFT were suggested for possible inclusion.

Enhancing the Discovery of Tabletop Games

Abstract: Collections of three-dimensional materials may not be discoverable to library users if they lack adequate metadata. Discovery of these collections may be enhanced through the application of relevant cataloging standards and controlled vocabularies. This paper outlines how librarians at the University of North Texas Libraries used these strategies to increase access to a large collection of tabletop games.

How We Talk about the Movies: A Comparison of Australian, British and American Film Genre Terms

Abstract: Vocabulary or terminological control has been an issue of critical information practice for Australian information professionals for many years. In the 1970s Australian libraries began to supplemen...

Organising music’s structures: The classification of musical forms in Western art music

Abstract: This article analyses the classification of musical forms in Western art music. It examines how some sources in the music domain classify musical forms, and the categorisations and complexities inherent within these classifications. It analyses the table of contents from music domain textbooks, treating them as knowledge organisation systems, as well as analysing music domain descriptions of the knowledge organisation of forms. Form is found to be a complicated type of information, with an intriguing relationship to genre. The analysis of domain classifications reveals five key categorisations: texture, sectionalisation, size of structure, definable-ness and medium. Various complexities about form are elicited, such as form-as-process, complicated whole-part form relationships, an interesting spectrum of definable-ness, and the dependency of form on medium and texture. This article examines a rarely discussed type of information, form, and its approach could be usefully extended to other subjects.