Library Cataloging
Name Authority Challenges for Indexing and Abstracting Databases by Denise Beaubien Bennett and Priscilla Williams appears in the first issue of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.
- Database Of Databases
The Internet Search Environment Number (ISEN) intends to catalog catalogs and other databases.You know how the ISBN is assigned to books. Over 1 million books are assigned ISBNs each year. What ISEN plans to do is emulate that system for databases. We...
- Improving Subject Searching
Improving subject searching in databases through a combination of descriptors and UDC by Granados, Mariangels and Nicolau, Anna (2008) In Proceedings BOBCATSSS'08: Providing acces for everyone, Zadar (Croatia)Problems with subject access to online...
- Sru Record Update
Get your comments in by October 10 concerning the draft of the SRU Record Update.The Record Update service allows for remote maintenance from and administration of records within a compliant database. It has a simple and extensible mechanism for this,...
- Metasearching
The is a new service offered by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission that allows users to easily discover and retrieve desired information from multiple library catalogs, databases, and other knowledge collections. Texans no longer need to...
- Personal Names
Folks doing NACO work might find interesting the article "Spanish personal name variations in national and international biomedical databases: implications for information retrieval and bibliometric studies" by R. Ruiz-Pérez, E. Delgado López-Cózar,...
Library Cataloging
Name Authority in I&A Databases
Name Authority Challenges for Indexing and Abstracting Databases by Denise Beaubien Bennett and Priscilla Williams appears in the first issue of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.
The traditional objective of name authority files is to determine precisely when name variations belong to the same individual. Manually?maintained authority files have served library catalogues reasonably well, but the burden of upkeep has made them ill?suited to managing the volume of items and authors in all but the smallest I&A databases. To meet the access needs of the 21st Century, both catalogues and I&A databases may need to implement options that present a high degree of probability that items have been authored by the same individual, rather than options that provide high precision with the expense of manual maintenance. Striving for name disambiguation rather than name authority control may become an attractive option for catalogues, I&A databases, and digital library collections.Names
- Database Of Databases
The Internet Search Environment Number (ISEN) intends to catalog catalogs and other databases.You know how the ISBN is assigned to books. Over 1 million books are assigned ISBNs each year. What ISEN plans to do is emulate that system for databases. We...
- Improving Subject Searching
Improving subject searching in databases through a combination of descriptors and UDC by Granados, Mariangels and Nicolau, Anna (2008) In Proceedings BOBCATSSS'08: Providing acces for everyone, Zadar (Croatia)Problems with subject access to online...
- Sru Record Update
Get your comments in by October 10 concerning the draft of the SRU Record Update.The Record Update service allows for remote maintenance from and administration of records within a compliant database. It has a simple and extensible mechanism for this,...
- Metasearching
The is a new service offered by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission that allows users to easily discover and retrieve desired information from multiple library catalogs, databases, and other knowledge collections. Texans no longer need to...
- Personal Names
Folks doing NACO work might find interesting the article "Spanish personal name variations in national and international biomedical databases: implications for information retrieval and bibliometric studies" by R. Ruiz-Pérez, E. Delgado López-Cózar,...