Library Cataloging
Reclassification of Electronic Product Catalogs: The "Apricot" Approach and Its Evaluation Results by Sven Abels and Axel Hahn appears in the latest Informing Science Journal.
Classification
- Cilip Cig E-forum On Reclassification
On the 26 and 27 September the Cataloguing & Indexing Group (CIG) of CILIP will host a free e-forum on reclassification. On both days, sessions begin at 10 am and end at 5 pm (BST, i.e. GMT +1 hour). The arrangement of libraries is rarely static,...
- Stuck In The Past
This month in Library Journal Michael Stephens writes in Stuck in the Past about the changing nature of the profession. He neglects catalogers. However, we can offer a few suggestions along the lines of those he suggests for reference. How about advising...
- Sparc
The Information Program of the Open Society Institute (OSI), along with SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), today announced three new publications for developers and publishers of open access journals.Guide to Business Planning...
- Metadata
The SMBmeta initiative is a new one to me.The SMBmeta Initiative is an open, distributed way for small and medium-sized businesses to communicate information such as the physical location of the business and the area it serves, as well at the type of...
- Controlled Vocabularies
Mind your phraseology! Using controlled vocabularies to improve findability by Christina Wodtke is a nice and rather complete introduction to the topic. It takes a business approach to the topic, lost customers and profits are the result of poor word...
Library Cataloging
Reclassification
Reclassification of Electronic Product Catalogs: The "Apricot" Approach and Its Evaluation Results by Sven Abels and Axel Hahn appears in the latest Informing Science Journal.
Electronic Product Catalogs (EPCs) are becoming more and more important as businesses interact electronically with one another and with customers. EPCs are the databases in which businesses store information about their products. EPCs allow customers to locate items they wish to purchase and business partners to access a business's offerings. Typically each business's EPC is organized to meet the requirements of one of many competing standards. Problems arise when various business partners use different standards to organize their EPC. Translating a product catalog from one standard to another manually is no easy task, even for a single item, and the typical EPC contains thousands of items. This situation is known as the reclassification problem. The paper describes the problem in greater details and also proposes a solution, which we dub "the Apricot approach".Deals with product catalogs, but the technique might be wider interrest.
Classification
- Cilip Cig E-forum On Reclassification
On the 26 and 27 September the Cataloguing & Indexing Group (CIG) of CILIP will host a free e-forum on reclassification. On both days, sessions begin at 10 am and end at 5 pm (BST, i.e. GMT +1 hour). The arrangement of libraries is rarely static,...
- Stuck In The Past
This month in Library Journal Michael Stephens writes in Stuck in the Past about the changing nature of the profession. He neglects catalogers. However, we can offer a few suggestions along the lines of those he suggests for reference. How about advising...
- Sparc
The Information Program of the Open Society Institute (OSI), along with SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), today announced three new publications for developers and publishers of open access journals.Guide to Business Planning...
- Metadata
The SMBmeta initiative is a new one to me.The SMBmeta Initiative is an open, distributed way for small and medium-sized businesses to communicate information such as the physical location of the business and the area it serves, as well at the type of...
- Controlled Vocabularies
Mind your phraseology! Using controlled vocabularies to improve findability by Christina Wodtke is a nice and rather complete introduction to the topic. It takes a business approach to the topic, lost customers and profits are the result of poor word...