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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511734703321

Titolo

Catalogue 2.0 : the future of the library catalogue / / edited by Sally Chambers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Facet, , 2013

ISBN

1-78330-314-X

1-78330-025-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

025.3132

Soggetti

Online library catalogs

Semantic Web - Research

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Editor and contributors; 1 Next-generation catalogues: what do users think?; Introduction; Catalogues: where are we coming from?; Frameworks for next-generation user studies: anthropological and ethnographic approaches; Great expectations: the next-generation catalogue; Methods of user-centred design; User study findings; Conclusion; References and further reading; References; 2 Making search work for the library user; Introduction; A short history of electronic library catalogues; What is wrong with Boolean searching?

The vector space model: relevance ranking in information retrievalRelevance ranking of library resources; More features of modern search engines; Conclusion; References; Notes; 3 Next-generation discovery: an overview of the European scene; Introduction; Features and services; Products and projects; Open source discovery products; VuFind Case Study: eBooks-on-Demand; Library-based developments; Conclusion; References; 4 The mobile library catalogue; Introduction; Mobile devices; Mobile applications; The platforms; Network; Types of library and mobile users; Mobile services

Mobile catalogue functionsHow to get a mobile catalogue; Case study: UBA Mobile; Mobile catalogues: implementation examples; Conclusion; Implementing mobile library services: a checklist; References; 5



FRBRizing your catalogue: the facets of FRBR; Introduction; FRBR and its background; FRBR visualized; FRBR: its purpose and its solutions; Implementing FRBR in Belgium; Why FRBR on zoeken.bibliotheek.be?; FRBR and zoeken.bibliotheek.be in front of the screen; FRBR and zoeken.bibliotheek.be behind the scenes; FRBR and metadata creation; Metadata creation and the user interface

FRBR as the beginning of moreFRBR and metadata enrichment; FRBR and identifiers; The web as a FRBR user; Conclusions: thinking outside the library catalogue box; References; 6 Enabling your catalogue for the Semantic Web; Introduction; Semantic Web and Linked Data . . . what is it all about?; Organizational, intellectual and legal issues; Technical basics: RDF, URIs and Linked Data principles; Transformations, alignments; Storing and publishing Linked Data; Using the data; Conclusion; References

7 Supporting digital scholarship: bibliographic control, library co-operatives and open access repositoriesIntroduction; Changing collections, the 'control zone' and resource discovery; Metadata, cataloguing, bibliographic control; Co-operative cataloguing; Rethinking; A library co-operative commons; Conclusions; Questions; Acknowledgements; References; 8 Thirteen ways of looking at libraries, discovery and the catalogue: scale, workflow, attention; Introduction; The catalogue as an identifiable service; Environmental . . . the library in the network; Institutional . . . the library

Organizational . . . working across libraries

Sommario/riassunto

Brings together some of the foremost international cataloguing practitioners and thought leaders, including Lorcan Dempsey, Emmanuelle BermeĢ€s, Marshall Breeding and Karen Calhoun, to provide an overview of the current state of the art of the library catalogue and look ahead to see what the library catalogue might become.