Category Archives: cataloguing

Creating catalogues: bibliographic records in a networked world

June 9, 2009 – 1:16 pm

nbsp;http://www.rin.ac.uk/creating-catalogues
The Web 2.0 environment provides the opportunity for innovative use of freely available datasets and, not least in the UK, there is increasing interest from Government in making information created by public sector organisations more widely available for re-use, in order to generate greater economic benefit, social gain and improvements to public services.
These developments [...]

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Library of Congress Subject Headings Free Online

May 5, 2009 – 4:14 pm

nbsp;http://id.loc.gov/authorities/search/
The Library of Congress has prepared this subject terminology system and is making it available as a public domain data set. While it has attempted to minimize inaccuracies and defects in the data and services furnished, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS IS PROVIDING THIS DATA AND THESE SERVICES “AS IS” AND DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, [...]

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Networking Names

May 5, 2009 – 1:21 pm

http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2009-05.pdfhttp://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2009-05.pdf
The fifteen members of the RLG Partners Networking Names Advisory Group1 collaborated on articulating the problem space that the research community needs to address and identify components of a “Cooperative Identities Hub” that would have the most impact across different target audiences. The group developed use case scenarios that provide the context in which different [...]

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Presentation on AACR2/RDA and MARC

March 24, 2009 – 1:18 pm

nbsp;http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/bib-man/presentat…
This presentation was given at the introductory session of the cataloguing module at London Metropolitan University. It provides an outline of the main standards currently in use (AACR2/RDA and MARC 21) and sets them in the context of current thinking
“The Tools of Our Trade”
Ann Chapman, March 2009

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RDA: Cataloguing in the 21st century

March 6, 2009 – 7:34 am

nbsp;http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/bib-man/presentat…
This presentation was given as part of the cataloguing module for library and information science students at London Metropolitan University. It sets out the background of, and the international collaborative development process for, RDA. It also outlines how to use the RDA approach to cataloguing and how RDA might impact on catalogues of the future.

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CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference

November 19, 2008 – 10:29 am

nbsp;http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/CIG/2008/c…
“Classification and subject retrieval in the 21st century”

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Full draft of RDA

November 18, 2008 – 10:41 am

nbsp;http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/r…
The Full draft of RDA is now available in PDF format from: www.rdaonline.org

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Facing Forward: The Challenges Facing Cataloging and Catalogers

October 30, 2008 – 7:00 am

nbsp;http://www.catalogingfutures.com/catalog…
from Diane Hillman

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WorldCat tagging debuts

September 23, 2008 – 3:06 pm

You and your users can now keep track of your favorite items in WorldCat through tags—keywords that help you classify or describe an item. Tags are displayed in search results lists and may help you find similar items or organize items in a way that makes sense to you. You can add as many tags [...]

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Preservation of Web Resources: a JISC-sponsored project Worshop 3

September 18, 2008 – 8:26 am

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Title: Embedding Web Preservation Strategies Within Your Institution
Date: Friday 12th September 2008
Programme:
Presentation. 1. Introduction to JISC PoWR (Kevin Ashley, ULCC)
Presentation. 2. Records Management vs. Web Management: Beyond the Stereotypes (Marieke Guy, UKOLN)
Breakout Session 1: Web Preservation in your Organisation
Presentation. 3. Web Preservation in a Web 2.0 Environment (Brian Kelly, UKOLN)
Presentation. 4. The JISC-PoWR Workshops [...]

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