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Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata. OCLC Research Report
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Smith-Yoshimura, Karen – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2020
The OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus Group, first established in 1993, is one of the longest-standing groups within the OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP), a transnational network of research libraries. The Focus Group provides a forum for administrators responsible for creating and managing metadata in their…
Descriptors: Metadata, Information Management, Library Services, Data
Treatment of Holocaust Denial Literature in Association of Research Libraries
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Spidal, Debra F. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2012
Holocaust denial literature has been treated inconsistently in library collections. At one time Holocaust denial literature was classed and subject headings assigned with Holocaust literature. After specific Library of Congress classification numbers and subject headings for Holocaust denial and Holocaust denial literature became available in the…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Library Materials, Classification, Indexing
Mining Social Tagging Data for Enhanced Subject Access for Readers and Researchers
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Lawson, Karen G. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2009
Social tagging enables librarians to partner with users to provide enhanced subject access. This paper quantifies and compares LC subject headings from each of 31 different subject divisions with user tags from Amazon.com and LibraryThing assigned to the same titles. The intersection and integration of these schemas is described and evaluated.…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Classification