Facet Analysis
Library Cataloging

Facet Analysis


Towards a knowledge structure for high performance subject access and retrieval within managed digital collections is being researched in the UK.
This research will focus on application of such this method in the field of humanities and will try to answer on the following questions:
  • Is FAT useful for developing the kind of complex knowledge structures we need in order to access digital materials
  • How might classification structure based on FAT provide innovative access to digital materials?
  • How might FAT facilitiate cross-disciplinary access?




- Guidelines For Subject Access In National Bibliographies
The Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies by the IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for Subject Access by National Bibliographic Agencies is now available for review. The question of how to integrate the multitude of national online resources...

- Authority Record Access
Why doesn't LC offer Z39.50 access to the authority files? How about their other thesauri, like the Thesaurus For Graphic Materials? Easy access to these files would be useful. Maybe Z39.50 is "so yesterday" and SRU/SRW or an API is the answer. These...

- Digital Libraries
Papers from the NSF Post Digital Library Futures are available. Some of the papers are:Douglas W. Oard, Transforming Access to the Spoken WordBob Englund, Digital Libraries, Cultural Heritage and InterpolBruce R. Schatz, Navigating the Distributed World...

- Metadata
In the current ASLIB Proceedings "Metadata-based access to multimedia architectural and historical archive collections: a review" by Jeroen Bekaert,; Dimitri Van De Ville; Boris Rogge; Iwan Strauven; Emiel De Kooning; Rik Van de Walle.A summary of the...

- Professional Reading
"Metadata-based access to multimedia architectural and historical archive collections: a review" in Aslib Proceedings (2002) v. 54, no. 6, pp. 362-371.Presents a brief overview of what is meant by a digital library and a digital archive, and how archival...



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