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Resource Description and Access

About: Resource Description and Access is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1859 publications have been published within this topic receiving 10957 citations. The topic is also known as: RDA & Resource Description & Access.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of groups of libraries in a state, city, region, or nation, focusing on collections or holdings, and closely allied matters, and provide leads for interlibrary loan inquiries.
Abstract: UNDER THE INSPIRATION of such factors as the Library Services and Construction Act, increasing state aid for public and school libraries, various types of cooperative programs, federal legislation affecting libraries, and new trends in library architecture, library surveys have proliferated. The library surveyor is being called upon to advise and consult on building plans, development of collections, personnel problems, administrative organization, schemes for library cooperation, and applications of automation and mechanization to libraries. Library surveys and consulting assignments are most commonly concerned with detailed studies of individual libraries related to specific local needs or problems. Examples are numerous. The present study, however, deals with more broadly based investigations, such as groups of libraries in a state, city, region, or nation. The primary focus will be on library resources, i.e., collections or holdings, and closely allied matters. Published surveys of library resources vary widely in thoroughness, amount of detail, care in planning, form and arrangement of data, background of the surveyors, and other aspects. Because some have been sketchy, incomplete, and not well organized for use, doubts have been expressed about their value. Among the purposes that resource surveys are designed to serve are to aid the research worker in locating materials which might otherwise be overlooked or found with difficulty; to provide leads for interlibrary loan inquiries; and to furnish a basis for

3 citations

01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: The paper discusses issues identified by the project for improving the UNIMARC standard, and in particular its alignment with ISBD and other bibliographic standards such as RDA: resource description and access.
Abstract: The paper describes the work of a project to represent UNIMARC in Resource Description Framework (RDF), the basis of the Semantic Web and linked data. The current focus is on the UNIMARC Bibliographic format, and the development of an element set for the tags and subfields and of value vocabularies for the coded information block. The paper discusses issues identified by the project for improving the UNIMARC standard, and in particular its alignment with ISBD and other bibliographic standards such as RDA: resource description and access. The paper also gives examples of linked open data derived from UNIMARC records.

3 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20232
20224
20211
20204
201911
201814