A similarity model for bibliographic records using subject headings

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suthathip Maneewongvatana ◽  
Songrit Maneewongvatana
Keyword(s):  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Similarity Model ◽  
Subject Headings

scholarly journals The Best Cataloger is a Frustrated Library User: Cataloging Failure and the Underutilization of Library Resources

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
John W. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Call Number ◽  
Library User ◽  
Library Catalogs

This essay points out that inconsistencies in the assignment of subject headings and call number can lead to failure to retrieve relevant materials from our libraries. Today it is frequently asserted that bibliographic records cataloged by the Library of Congress or other approved libraries will not require review or editing in our local libraries. This paper provides clear, but by no means unique examples of “cataloging failure” and explains the implications of a policy to add unedited bibliographic records (from vendors such as OCLC) to our library catalogs. The result is the omission of otherwise relevant titles from fairly routine searches.

scholarly journals Memetic Relationships as Tillet’s Shared Characteristics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Mayhew
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Cultural Inheritance ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
Characteristic Relationship ◽  
Shared Characteristic

The field of knowledge organization, and cataloguing in particular, has increasingly become concerned with bibliographic relationships. Tillett (2001) developed a taxonomy of bibliographic relationships that is largely shared by Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), with the exception of the “shared characteristic” relationship including such features as shared creator or subject headings. This paper will offer another possible shared characteristic: “memes.” Memes are units of cultural inheritance and include literary tropes, character archetypes, and genre conceits, and can link otherwise unconnected works.  Le domaine de l'organisation des connaissances, et du catalogage en particulier, se préoccupe de plus en plus des relations bibliographiques. Tillett (2001) a développé une taxonomie des relations bibliographiques qui est largement partagée par les Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), à l'exception de la relation «caractéristique partagée» incluant des caractéristiques telles que le partage de créateur ou de vedettes-matière. Cet article proposera une autre caractéristique commune possible: les mèmes. Les mèmes sont des unités d'héritage culturel qui comprennent des tropes et des archétypes de personnages et de genre, et qui peuvent lier des œuvres autrement non liées.

scholarly journals Features of LNS RAS Electronic Union Catalog

2011 ◽  
pp. 42-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolai E. Kalionov ◽  
Svetlana A. Vlasova
Keyword(s):  
Small Degree ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Library System ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Online Catalog ◽  
Subject Headings

Organization concepts and search capabilities of the union online catalog of books and serials from the collections of more than 100 libraries of the centralized library system, headed by the Library for Natural Sciences, RAS are described. Catalog allows you to process almost unlimited range of requests, which include both any elements of bibliographic descriptions and subject headings, which are a “superstructure” over the UDC. Bibliographic records, which make the basis of the catalog, are small degree modified standard bibliographic descriptions formed under the integrated library system BIBLIOBUS.

scholarly journals Subject Headings in Full-Text Environments: The ECCO Experiment

2007 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Resource Discovery ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Intellectual Content ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
Subject Headings

Bibliographic records regularly combine two incommensurable types of description: one that captures the physical and textual facts of a work, the other that seeks to encompass succinctly the work’s intellectual content. This article deals with the second type of bibliographic description: subject headings and their contribution to resource discovery. The article reports on an experiment at Northwestern University Library to add subject headings to online records for the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).The author assesses the benefits of this enhancement by using a representative research topic: a search for contemporary material on the East India Company (1600–1873). This article extends arguments recently presented by Gross and Taylor (2005) in two directions: first, by considering the importance of subject headings for access to historical materials; and, second, by examining the value added by subject headings even when the full text of a work is available online.

scholarly journals Controlled vocabularies and tags: An analysis of research methods

NASKO ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret E. I. Kipp
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Controlled Vocabulary ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Tagging ◽  
Controlled Vocabularies ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
Author Keywords ◽  
Library Websites

Social tagging has become increasingly common and is now often found in library catalogues or at least on library websites and blogs. Tags have been compared to controlled vocabulary indexing terms and have been suggested as replacements or enhancements for traditional indexing. This paper explored tagging and controlled vocabulary studies in the context of earlier studies examining title keywords, author keywords and user indexing and applied these results to a set of bibliographic records from PubMed which are also tagged on CiteULike. Preliminary results show that author and title keywords and tags are more similar to each other than to subject headings, though some user or author supplied terms do match subject headings exactly. Author keywords tend to be more specific than the other terms and could serve an additional distinguishing function when browsing.

The Abandonment of the Assignment of Subject Headings and Classification Codes in University Libraries Due to the Massive Emergence of Electronic Books

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
pp. 646-667
Author(s):  
Isidoro Gil-Leiva ◽  
Mariângela Spotti Lopes Fujita ◽  
Pedro Díaz Ortuño ◽  
Daniela Majorie dos Reis
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Disruptive Technology ◽  
Electronic Books ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The massive and unstoppable emergence of electronic books in libraries has altered their organization. This disruptive technology has led to structural changes. Currently, an e-book exists only if its metadata exists. The objective of this article is to analyse the impact that the massive incorporation of electronic books in university library systems is having in the processes of assignment of subject headings and classification codes. We carried out a survey of more than six hundred libraries, which means almost all the university libraries in Portugal, Spain, England, United States, Brazil, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Australia. From the results obtained, it is deduced that: 1) librarians expect e-books to be provided with descriptive metadata related to the subject headings and classification codes; 2) the bibliographic records provided by publishers/providers seem to be improvable; 3) the quality of the metadata provided by the providers does not seem to be taken into account when selecting publishers for the purchase; 4) the discovery tools are also clearly improvable; 5) it seems that there is no “frustration” or “stress” among librarians about the changes produced in relation to technical processes; and, 6) it does not seem that we are facing a paradigm shift motivated by these issues.

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