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A Conceptual Schema for the Control of Bibliographic Works.
Leazer, Gregory H. – Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1994
Describes a conceptual design of a bibliographic retrieval system that enables more thorough control of bibliographic entities. The conceptual schema describes a database comprising two separate files of bibliographic description, one of intellectual works and the other of physical items. This model provides information about a work's association…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Database Design
Report on the Successful AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway Implementation of the FRBR and INDECS Event Models, and Implications for Other FRBR Implementations.
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Ayres, Marie-Louise; Kilner, Kerry; Fitch, Kent; Scarvell, Annette – 2002
This paper discusses the first major implementation of two significant new cataloging models: IFLA's FRBR (International Federation of Library Associations' Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and event modeling (INDECS and Harmony). The paper refers briefly to the decision making processes leading to the adoption of these models,…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Catalogs
XML and Bibliographic Data: The TVS (Transport, Validation and Services) Model.
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de Carvalho, Joaquim; Cordeiro, Maria Ines – 2002
This paper discusses the role of XML in library information systems at three major levels: as are presentation language that enables the transport of bibliographic data in a way that is technologically independent and universally understood across systems and domains; as a language that enables the specification of complex validation rules…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Bibliographic Utilities, Information Systems
A Virtual International Authority File.
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Tillett, Barbara B. – 2001
A pool of authority records for bibliographic entities (persons, corporate bodies, works/expressions, concepts, objects, events, and places) to use on the Internet is of interest, not only to libraries and their users, but also to publishers, copyright and rights management organizations, museums, and archives. This paper explores different models…
Descriptors: Authority Control (Information), Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Databases
The "Information Society" as Paradigm: A Bibliometric Inquiry.
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Duff, Alistair S. – Journal of Information Science, 1995
Reports results of searching four social science databases to determine if "information society" has reached paradigmatic status. Results found a decline in the use of the term and concluded that it is not yet possible to say that "information society" is a paradigm. An appendix lists journals carrying articles on the…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Bibliometrics, Citation Analysis, Databases
Reengineering Name Authority Control.
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Snyman, M. M. M.; Van Rensburg, M. Jansen – Electronic Library, 1999
Describes a model for the standardization of names in bibliographic databases. Discusses a prototype that was developed to demonstrate feasibility of the model, and investigates the impact of implementing the model. Findings suggested that the new model will revolutionize name authority control and that the prototype verifies the technical…
Descriptors: Authority Control (Information), Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Cataloging