Bibliographic information organization in the Semantic Web / Mirna Willer and Gordon Dunsire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willer, Mirna.

Dunsire, Gordon, author.

Series:

Chandos information professional series.

Chandos information professional series, 2052-210X

Chandos information professional series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information organization.

Information storage and retrieval systems.

Semantic Web.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 318 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Chandos Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

New technologies will underpin the future generation of library catalogues. To facilitate their role providing information, serving users, and fulfilling their mission as cultural heritage and memory institutions, libraries must take a technological leap; their standards and services must be transformed to those of the Semantic Web. Bibliographic Information Organization in the Semantic Web explores the technologies that may power future library catalogues, and argues the necessity of such a leap. The text introduces international bibliographic standards and models, and fundamental concepts in

Contents:

Cover; Bibliographic InformationOrganization in theSemantic Web; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Why we have to look to the Semantic Web for a new technological environment; About the authors; 1 Bibliographic information organization: a view from now into the past; Introduction; Universal Bibliographic Control - the traditional view; UBC at international level; FR family of conceptual models and application to catalogues; Objectives of the catalogue and user tasks; The object of bibliographic description: ISBD, FRBR, and RDA/ONIX

MAchine Readable Cataloguing: from ISO 2709 through XMLPrinciples and rules: 1961 to 2009 and beyond; Notes; 2 Semantic web and linked open data; Introduction; Once upon a time, before the Internet; The Internet; World Wide Web; Semantic Web; Triples; URIs; Namespaces; Graphs; Ontologies and application profiles; Open World Assumption and AAA principle; Provenance; Mixing and matching metadata; Mapping, alignment and harmonization; Linked data, open linked data and the linked data cloud; Notes; 3 Publishing bibliographic element sets and value vocabularies; Introduction

Bibliographic metadata as contentBibliographic standards and models in the Semantic Web; Liaising with others; Representing current standards in RDF; Vocabulary management infrastructure; Multilingual environment; Notes; 4 Publishing datasets as linked open data; Introduction; Creating linked triples from local data; Building links; Constrained and unconstrained elements; Bibliographic application profiles; Case studies; Notes; 5 We are not alone but part of the linked data environment; Introduction; CIDOC CRM and library and archival communities

Publishing, distribution and rights holding communitiesTerminologies, translations and transformations; User and machine generated metadata; Notes; Conclusion; References; Index

Notes:

"ISSN: 2052-210X."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781780633978

1780633971

OCLC:

864746491