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Adams, Katherine – Online, 2002
Explains the concept of a semantic Web where software agents perform jobs for end-users by using hierarchies, metadata, and structured vocabularies. Discusses taxonomies; defining ontologies and taxonomies; standardized language and conceptual relationships; different points of emphasis; and topic maps as new Web infrastructure. (LRW)
Descriptors: Classification, Computer Software, Metadata, Semantics
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Glassel, Aimee D.; Wells, Amy Tracy – Journal of Internet Cataloging, 1997
Describes the Scout Reporting Signpost (http://www.signpost.org/signpost), a Web site that demonstrates that Internet resources can be cataloged, classified, and arranged using existing taxonomies such as Library of Congress classification and subject headings in conjunction with the Dublin Core, an emerging metadata standard. A theoretical…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Internet, Library of Congress Classification
Lim, Edward – 1999
This paper discusses access to information about Southeast Asia on the Internet. The first section summarizes problems with the major Internet search engines and directories. Three broad categories of solutions to improve Internet searching and retrieval are suggested in the second section: (1) efforts to assist end users to use the search engines…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Case Studies, Classification, Foreign Countries
Schwartz, Candy – 2001
This book examines what has been done in providing subject access to networked resources. The first chapter provides a historical overview of information services, developments in information technology, end users, and the Internet, as well as a discussion of the library response to these developments. The second chapter discusses metadata,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Authority Control (Information), Cataloging, Classification
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Franklin, Rosemary Aud – Online Information Review, 2003
Examines the developing state of subject access on the Web. Topics include new scholarly research methods; authority control; cataloging and metadata; interoperability and thesauri development; extensibility, including XML and RDF (resource description framework); indexing and information retrieval; flexibility in subject classification; and…
Descriptors: Authority Control (Information), Cataloging, Classification, Indexing
Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1997
Presents abstracts of SIG Sessions. Highlights include digital collections; information retrieval methods; public interest/fair use; classification and indexing; electronic publication; funding; globalization; information technology projects; interface design; networking in developing countries; metadata; multilingual databases; networked…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Classification, Computer System Design, Databases