Form and Genre Access to Academic Library Digital Collections

Abstract: Provides a progress report on the current project to produce a new English-language cataloguing code called Resource Description and Access that will replace Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (2nd ed.). RDA is scheduled for final publication in 2009. Part of the "Beyond Limits : Building Open Access Collections" Preconference sessions of the 2007 British Columbia Library Association Conference entitled "Beyond 20/20 : Envisioning the Future".

Abstract: portuguesO artigo tem por objetivo apresentar as colecoes da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de Sao Paulo e descreve o processo de implementacao de uma interface online voltado para sua difusao, desenvolvido com a plataforma Omeka S, a partir do qual se pode fazer o compartilhamento e a colaboracao na organizacao dos dados e das informacoes organizadas e estruturadas. Como parte da discussao, resume o momento historico em que se discute a importância dos arquivos e colecoes de design e arquitetura, levantando a historia do catalogo da instituicao e cobrindo questoes que envolvem sua divulgacao online. Apresenta tambem um topico especial de metadados, especificamente o Dublin Core, padrao adotado pela FAUUSP. Os resultados sao discutidos e as perspectivas para a continuidade da plataforma tambem sao comentadas. EnglishThis article aims to present the collections of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Sao Paulo (FAUUSP) and describes the implementation of an online interface for those collections, developed with the Omeka S platform for sharing and collaborating with organized and structured data and information. As part of the discussion, it summarizes the historical moment in which the importance of the design and architecture archives and collections is debated, discussing the history of the institution’s catalogue and covering issues involving their online dissemination. It also presents a special metadata topic, specifically Dublin Core, which is the standard adopted by FAUUSP. Results are discussed and perspectives for the continuity of the platform are also commented on.

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to report on a quantitative analysis of the LCGFT vocabulary within a large set of MARC bibliographic data retrieved from the OCLC WorldCat database. The study aimed to provide a detailed analysis of the outcomes of the LCGFT project, which was launched by the Library of Congress (LC) in 2007. Findings point to a moderate increase in LCGFT use over time; however, the vocabulary has not been applied to the fullest extent possible in WorldCat. Further, adoption has been inconsistent between the various LCGFT disciplines. These and other findings discussed here suggest that retrospective application of the vocabulary using automated means should be investigated by catalogers and other technical services librarians. Indeed, as the data used for the analysis show somewhat uneven application of LCGFT, and with nearly half a billion records in WorldCat, it remains a certainty that much of LCGFT’s full potentials for genre/form access and retrieval will remain untapped until innovative solutions are introduced to further increase overall vocabulary usage in bibliographic databases.

Abstract: This essay proposes a conception of genre based on conventionalized social motives which are found in recurrent situation‐types. The thesis is that genre must be conceived in terms of rhetorical action rather than substance or form.

Abstract: In the fall of 2002, something extraordinary occurred in the continuing networked information revolution, shifting the dynamic among individually driven innovation, institutional progress, and the evolution of disciplinary scholarly practices. The development of institutional repositories emerged as a new strategy that allows universities to apply serious, systematic leverage to accelerate changes taking place in scholarship and scholarly communication, both moving beyond their historic relatively passive role of supporting established publishers in modernizing scholarly publishing through the licensing of digital content, and also scaling up beyond ad-hoc alliances, partnerships, and support arrangements with a few select faculty pioneers exploring more transformative new uses of the digital medium. Many technology trends and development efforts came together to make this strategy possible. Online storage costs have dropped significantly; repositories are now affordable. Standards like the open archives metadata harvesting protocol are now in place; some progress has also been made on the standards for the underlying metadata itself. The thinking about digital preservation over the past five years has advanced to the point where the needs are widely recognized and well defined, the technical approaches at least superficially mapped out, and the need for action is now clear. The development of free, publicly accessible journal article collections in disciplines such as high-energy physics has demonstrated ways in which the network can change scholarly communication by altering dissemination and access patterns; separately, the development of a series of extraordinary digital works had at least suggested the potential of creative authorship specifically for the digital medium to transform the presentation and transmission of scholarship. The leadership of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the development and deployment of the DSpace institutional repository system , created in collaboration with the Hewlett Packard Corporation,

Abstract: Rachel Heery and Manjula Patel introduce the 'application profile' as a type of metadata schema.

Abstract: From 1992 to 1995 the IFLA Study Group on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) developed an entity relationship model as a generalised view of the bibliographic universe, intended to be independent of any cataloguing code or implementation. The FRBR report [1] itself includes a description of the conceptual model (the entities, relationships, and attributes or metadata as we would call them today), a proposed national level bibliographic record for all types of materials, and user tasks associated with the bibliographic resources described in catalogues, bibliographies, and other bibliographic tools. IFLA continues to monitor the application of FRBR and promotes its use and evolution. The IFLA Cataloguing Section's Working Group on FRBR, chaired by Patrick LeBoeuf, has an active online discussion list and a website at http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/wgfrbr/wgfrbr.htm. The website includes presentations, training tools, a hot-linked bibliography, and much more.