Library Cataloging
- Indexing Tool
Library catalogs these days are mostly ralational databases and related indexes. LuSql is a tool to create an index from a relational databse.LuSql is a simple but powerful tool for building Lucene indexes from relational databases. It is a command-line...
- Federated Searching
Patel, Yatrik and Vijayakumar, J. K. and Ramesh, Badnapuri (2002) Ontological metadata approach for accessing distributed web content : a proposed model for bibliographic databases. In Homayoun, Behrous, Eds. Proceedings First Euro-Asian Conference on...
- Citation Metadata
Bruce D'Arcus has begun work on a Citation Oriented Bibliographic Vocabulary.A vocabulary to describe a general data model for scholarly citations. It covers three primary classes: events, agents, and bibliographic reference types. It is designed...
- Open Archives In A Box
Open Archives In a Box (OAIB) is an older tool, but I've just seen it for the first time. Place this in from of a RDBMS and you have an OAI server. Too cool. I've seen the one to use in front of a Z39.50 server, ZMARCO, this one has a much wider...
- Frbr
William Denton has posted his paper "FRBR and Fundamental Cataloguing Rules".IFLA's proposed data model, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), arranges bibliographic entities in a new way, using an entity-relationship model that...
Library Cataloging
FRBR a Dead End?
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One thing that hit me over the head was that FRBR might be a poor model for our data. A speaker said that the object-entity model was based on relational databases. Well, relational databases have been the tool we used for the past 25 years or better. However, they might not be the tool we use in the near future. RDF triples, topic maps, and other tools seem to be where we are heading. Away from relational databases in any event. In ten years will we be saying of RDA, since it is based on a relational database model, the same things we say of AACR since it is based on a card model?
- Indexing Tool
Library catalogs these days are mostly ralational databases and related indexes. LuSql is a tool to create an index from a relational databse.LuSql is a simple but powerful tool for building Lucene indexes from relational databases. It is a command-line...
- Federated Searching
Patel, Yatrik and Vijayakumar, J. K. and Ramesh, Badnapuri (2002) Ontological metadata approach for accessing distributed web content : a proposed model for bibliographic databases. In Homayoun, Behrous, Eds. Proceedings First Euro-Asian Conference on...
- Citation Metadata
Bruce D'Arcus has begun work on a Citation Oriented Bibliographic Vocabulary.A vocabulary to describe a general data model for scholarly citations. It covers three primary classes: events, agents, and bibliographic reference types. It is designed...
- Open Archives In A Box
Open Archives In a Box (OAIB) is an older tool, but I've just seen it for the first time. Place this in from of a RDBMS and you have an OAI server. Too cool. I've seen the one to use in front of a Z39.50 server, ZMARCO, this one has a much wider...
- Frbr
William Denton has posted his paper "FRBR and Fundamental Cataloguing Rules".IFLA's proposed data model, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), arranges bibliographic entities in a new way, using an entity-relationship model that...