September 14, 2008
RDA, the new rules cataloging
Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the most widely used code catalog from 2009. Since 2004 working on a new rule to replace the second edition of the Rules of Anglo-American Cataloguing (AACR2), cataloging rules that are used in most libraries around the world. The RDA are based on models developed by the IFLA conceptualization to identify the relationship between a work and its author; specifically, follow the pattern of functional requirements for bibliographic records (FRBR) and the functional requirements for data authorities (Frade). These two models, which basa RDA, are based on the need for users to find, identify, select and obtain the resources that a library can provide. GDR gathers the information needed to describe an action, leaving behind the mere display of information, Obtet of cataloguing today. In October 2007 the main agencies bibliographic Australia, Canada, USA and UK decided to give its unconditional support for RDA and create a joint committee for its development and implementation. In the third quarter of 2009 GDR will be available and finally replaced the AACR2. Until then, remains open a period of sending feedback to improve the current version. All information on GDR is available at the website of the JSC, the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA. RDA allows interoperability between different models of metadata, as the committee has developed that has worked together with the community Dublin Core, the office of MARC21 standards of the Library of Congress, the group IFLA cataloging and industry editorial in relation to the rule ONIX. The information described with GDR will be easily integrated with catalogues of libraries, publishers, databases and bibliographic services. RDA is created thinking of digital information and work environments based on the website. GDR allow interfaces OPAC more consistent with the information needs and location of libraries as well as improved information sharing with users, which may include your notes in catalogues. GDR is compatible with AACR2 and its main novelty is that how many headlines change, following the provisions in the various functional requirements of IFLA. 2009 will be the year that cataloguing will be adapted to the new forms of access to information.
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May 16, 2008
Reviewing the international principles of cataloguing
The IFLA has disseminated the draft Declaration of Principles of International Cataloguing. The document presents the latest version of these principles and is subject to review international levels in order to obtain the final version. Professionals who want to contribute their comments may send their comments until June 30, 2008. The document now being presented for final review began in 2003 and developed after successive meetings, upon receipt and evaluation of the comments sent in this review period, would be adopted in final form by specific sections of IFLA. The principles that we want to adopt are recorded in the foundation catalog, as well as on the conceptual models of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and the Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD).
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February 22, 2008
Permalinks records in the catalog at the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has come to link the records of its catalogue with permalinks, persistent URLs, which do not change with the passage of time. These links are constructed from a control code, which is nothing more than an identifier assigned by the library, as stated in its page devoted to FAQs. Thus it is possible to cite the bibliographic records linking with your URL and check the availability of a document quickly. You can also link to the formats MARCXML, Mods and Dublin Core of those registrations adding to the URL the subdirectory / marcxml, / or mods / dc, as in this example. This development, which had already been discussed previously for services like Google or LibraryThing Books, expands the ability to add records catalográficos to social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, as The Geek Librarian and improve their visibility.
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August 24, 2006
International Collective Catalog
The OCLC has put on line, for public search, the collective catalog WorldCat. From that service it can be looked up more than one billion of bibliographic records from nearly 70 million documents, deposited in 18,000 libraries of all the world. The catalog has a original interface, also showed in Spanish. The searches can be qualified from several faceted criteria. In he data base, it can be cosulted about three million documents in Spanish language, and about 50,000 in Catalan language. The access to Worldcat can be done from the Google and Yahoo search bar, as well as it can be included in the search menu of Mozilla Firefox.
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October 19, 2005
Documental heritage thesaurus
The first multilingual thesaurus about culture is alredy accessible for free in the Internet. Thinking in making things easier for the experts in documental herritage, it gives access to several notions, experiences, and politics about culture, through the identification of the words in several languages, and through the search and recuperation of the information about European politics and experiences in herritage.
It also provides a tool for the terminologcal control in order to a best understanding of the concepts included in the database of Politics and Heritage (HEREIN). Nowadays it contains more than 500 words in seven languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Bulgarian, Polish and Slovene, and it is meant to include another 11 languages in the future.
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June 22, 2005
Ten years of Dublin Core
In 1995 was formed in Dublin (Ohio) an international working group whose aim was to create standards that served to discover documents and add the resulting information in the source codes of those documents. Ten years later, this group, known as Dublin Core, have elaborated different recommendations and norms and some of them have even got the category of ISO norm. The Dublin Core server has a mirror in Spanish, kept by Eva María Méndez, professor of the Carlos III University in Madrid, who is also the responsible for the international conference that will celebrate ten years of existence of this group. Besides, Eva Mández, with José A. Senso, have elaborated the tutorial Introducción a los metadatos: estándares y aplicación (Introduction to metadata: standards and application), that the Spanish professional association SEDIC has prepared as a course os selftraining and it is very useful to know how the metadata Dublin Core scheme works.
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June 06, 2003
Library and Information Science Thesaurus
The Centro de Información y Documentación Científica (CINDOC) has published the Library and Information Science Thesaurus , that is added to those already edited about
different domains and can be consulted freely online. The Library and Information Science Thesaurus has been created por Angela Sorli and Gonzalo Mochón and it fills a hole in the professional bibliography. As usual in this kind of documental tools, after the presentation, in which they comment the methodology and the information sources used, the descriptors, first alphabetically and them hierarchically. It also includes a KWOC index, English-Spanish and French-Spanish vocabularies and a basic bibliography.
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May 28, 2003
Authorities catalogues online
The Red de Bibliotecas del CSIC have started a new OPAC for the consultation of its authorities catalogue, in which you can consult at the same time both printed publications about authors that they published: Lista de Autores y Entidades de la Red de Bibliotecas delCSIC and Lista de Encabezamientos de Materia de la Red de Biblitecas del SCIC. This initiative is really useful for the job of authorities made in libraries. They are also interesting resources online the indexes of the Spanish National Library, LC Authorities, Of the U.S.A. Congress Library and OPALE of the French National Library.
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