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TL;DR: The enormous changes in cataloging and classification reflected in the literature of 2003 and 2004 are reviewed, and major themes and issues including the continuing influence of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Control (FRBR) are discussed.
Abstract: This paper reviews the enormous changes in cataloging and classification reflected in the literature of 2003 and 2004, and discusses major themes and issues. Traditional cataloging and classification tools have been revamped and new resources have emerged. Most notable themes are: the continuing influence of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Control (FRBR); the struggle to understand the ever-broadening concept of an “information entity”; steady developments in metadata-encoding standards; and the globalization of information systems, including multilinguistic challenges.
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TL;DR: A classification system is proposed that can classify documents without human intervention and can incorporate both classification by subject and by other forms of bibliographic information, allowing for the generalization of browsing to include all features of an information carrying unit.
Abstract: A document classifier places documents together in a linear arrangement for browsing or high-speed access by human or computerized information retrieval systems. Requirements for document classification and browsing systems are developed from similarity measures, distance measures, and the notion of subject aboutness. A requirement that documents be arranged in decreasing order of similarity as the distance from a given document increases can often not be met. Based on these requirements, information-theoretic considerations, and the Gray code, a classification system is proposed that can classify documents without human intervention. It provides a theoretical justification for individual classification numbers going from broad to narrow topics when moving from left to right in the classification number. A general measure of classifier performance is developed, and used to evaluate experimental results comparing the distance between subject headings assigned to documents given classifications from the proposed system and the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) system. Browsing in libraries, hypertext, and databases is usually considered to be the domain of subject searches. The proposed system can incorporate both classification by subject and by other forms of bibliographic information, allowing for the generalization of browsing to include all features of an information carrying unit. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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TL;DR: Although libraries must continue to provide electronic resources, the distinctive strength of research libraries lies mainly in their ability to provide free access to preservable book collections that facilitate the understanding of lengthy textual works.
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TL;DR: The formal charge for the IFLA study involving international bibliography standards was to delineate the functions that are performed by the bibliographic record with respect to various media, applications, and user needs.
Abstract: The formal charge for the IFLA study involving international bibliography standards was to delineate the functions that are performed by the bibliographic record with respect to various media, applications, and user needs The method used was the entity relationship analysis technique Three groups of entities that are the key objects of interest to users of bibliographic records were defined The primary group contains four entities: work, expression, manifestation, and item The second group includes entities responsible for the intellectual or artistic content, production, or ownership of entities in the first group The third group includes entities that represent concepts, objects, events, and places In the study we identified the attributes associated with each entity and the relationships that are most important to users The attributes and relationships were mapped to the functional requirements for bibliographic records that were defined in terms of four user tasks: to find, identify, select, and obtain Basic requirements for national bibliographic records were recommended based on the entity analysis The recommendations of the study are compared with two standards, AACR and the Dublin Core, to place them into pragmatic context The results of the study are being used in the review of the complete set of ISBDs as the initial benchmark in determining data elements for each format
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