Integration of library data into the Semantic Web environment is a key issue for libraries and is approached on the basis of interoperability between conceptual models. Several data models exist for ...the representation and publication of library data in the Semantic Web and therefore inter-domain and intra-domain interoperability issues emerge as a growing number of web data are generated. Achieving interoperability for different representations of the same or related entities between the library and other cultural heritage institutions shall enhance rich bibliographic data reusability and support the development of new data-driven information services. This paper aims to investigate common ground and convergences between four conceptual models, namely Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), FRBR Object-Oriented (FRBRoo), Bibliographic Framework (BIBFRAME) and Europeana Data Model (EDM), enabling semantically-richer interoperability by studying the representation of monographs, as well as of content relationships (derivative and equivalent bibliographic relationships) and of whole-part relationships between them.
Since the publication of the Functional Requirementes for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) in 1998, the world’s leading experts on cataloguing cartographic resources have questioned the possibilities of ...applying the conceptual model to cartography. They tried to understand how cartographic resources could be treated in the context of an entity-relationship model, focusing on the possibilities of applying Group 1 entities and FRBR’s relations to cartography. The debate that followed led to the establishment of conflicting positions. Many of the criticisms made to FRBR also apply to IFLA Library Reference Model (IFLA LRM), the new conceptual model, published in 2017. While showing some improvements it seems to fit forcibly into the description of cartographic resources.
Il contributo, partendo dalla constatazione del cambiamento di prospettiva della biblioteconomia, dalla centralità del libro e delle collezioni alla centralità dell’utente, intende esplorare le ...potenzialità informative dell’indicizzazione semantica delle risorse di musica notata come strumento pervasivo per l’organizzazione del servizio di information retrieval finalizzato alla performance, intesa non solo come esecuzione ma anche come fruizione della musica. Tramite un caso di studio, si offriranno spunti di riflessione sulla pratica dell’indicizzazione semantica della musica notata nei paesi anglosassoni attraverso i progetti elaborati dalla Library of Congress (LCSH, LCGFT e LCMPT), e si formuleranno proposte operative per rendere maggiormente efficiente il recupero delle risorse musicali nel Servizio bibliotecario nazionale con il Nuovo soggettario. Analizzando i bisogni conoscitivi degli utenti di una biblioteca specializzata in ambito musicale, le autrici avanzeranno una proposta di FRBRizzazione dell’OPAC SBN, a partire dalla categorizzazione delle opere musicali per forma/genere e, sfruttando le ‘connessioni logiche’ che collegano le opere con le entità soggetto correlate previste da LRM, proporranno di utilizzare le voci di soggetto come volano per consentire la trasformazione dell’OPAC SBN in library linked data.
PurposeIn this study, the authors want to identify current possible causes for citing and referencing errors in scholarly literature to compare if something changed from the snapshot provided by ...Sweetland in his 1989 paper.Design/methodology/approachThe authors analysed reference elements, i.e. bibliographic references, mentions, quotations and respective in-text reference pointers, from 729 articles published in 147 journals across the 27 subject areas.FindingsThe outcomes of the analysis pointed out that bibliographic errors have been perpetuated for decades and that their possible causes have increased, despite the encouraged use of technological facilities, i.e. the reference managers.Originality/valueAs far as the authors know, the study is the best recent available analysis of errors in referencing and citing practices in the literature since Sweetland (1989).
Cilj. Semantičko objavljivanje koristi koncepte i alate semantičkog weba i nastalo je njegovim razvojem. Budući da se klasičan način publiciranja znanstvenih radova suočio s njihovim brzim porastom, ...bilo je potrebno osigurati metode njihove automatske organizacije. Cilj ovoga rada jest definirati značenje semantičkog objavljivanja znanstvenih radova te usporediti FaBiO i FRBR DL te FaBiO i BIBFRAME. Metodologija. Metodološki je pristup u ovom radu komparativno-analitički. Analizirana je bibliografska ontologija FaBiO metodom komparacije s FRBR DL-om te BIBFRAME-om. Rezultati. Korištenje tehnologija semantičkog weba omogućuje poboljšanje značenja objavljenog članka u časopisu, olakšavanje njegovog automatskog otkrivanja, povezivanje sa semantički povezanim člancima te pristupanje podacima unutar članka. Semantičke web tehnologije, kao npr. RDF, RDFS, OWL i SPARQL formalni su alati koji to omogućuju. FaBiO se temelji na FRBR entitetima. U radu je prikazano kako se može pojednostaviti FRBR prikaz uz pomoć bibliografske ontologije FaBiO. Prikazana je i usporedba FaBi-a te BIBFRAME-a. Vrijednost. Članci i znanstveni podaci trebaju biti strojno čitljivi te jednostavni za pronalaženje i pregledavanje. Rezultati pretraživanja bitni su za znanstvena istraživanja radi postavljanja hipoteze te interpretacije. Semantičko objavljivanje pospješuje veći broj prijava radova, veći broj čitatelja i veće čimbenike utjecaja. Mogućnost pronalaženja članaka srodne tematike te otkrivanja nepoznatih veza između radova koji nisu eksplicitno povezani citatima doprinosi boljim čimbenicima utjecaja.
Coyle's articulate treatment of the issues at hand helps bridge the divide between traditional cataloging practice and the algorithmic metadata approach, making this book an important resource for ...both LIS students and practitioners.
PurposeThis study investigates an approach to book metrics for research evaluation that takes into account the complexity of scholarly monographs. This approach is based on work sets – unique ...scholarly works and their within-work related bibliographic entities – for scholarly monographs in national databases for research output.Design/methodology/approachThis study examines bibliographic records on scholarly monographs acquired from four European databases (VABB in Flanders, Belgium; CROSBI in Croatia; CRISTIN in Norway; COBISS in Slovenia). Following a data enrichment process using metadata from OCLC WorldCat and Amazon Goodreads, the authors identify work sets and the corresponding ISBNs. Next, on the basis of the number of ISBNs per work set and the presence in WorldCat, they design a typology of scholarly monographs: Globally visible single-expression works, Globally visible multi-expression works, Miscellaneous and Globally invisible works.FindingsThe findings show that the concept “work set” and the proposed typology can aid the identification of influential scholarly monographs in the social sciences and humanities (i.e. the Globally visible multi-expression works).Practical implicationsIn light of the findings, the authors outline requirements for the bibliographic control of scholarly monographs in national databases for research output that facilitate the use of the approach proposed here.Originality/valueThe authors use insights from library and information science (LIS) to construct complexity-sensitive book metrics. In doing so, the authors, on the one hand, propose a solution to a problem in research evaluation and, on the other hand, bring to attention the need for a dialogue between LIS and neighbouring communities that work with bibliographic data.
Cataloguing has been undergoing significant transformation for the last several years in order to keep up with the changing world of digital technologies, dramatically increasing the number of ...resources to be catalogued and data to be managed in such a way that would satisfy library users’ needs and expectations. Cataloguers had to face a shift in thinking about bibliographic data and consequently a shift in practice to the new cataloguing standard of Resource Description and Access. This research investigated cataloguers’ experiences with using RDA and the current issues they encounter and discuss while RDA is still being reviewed and shaped. It also documented and explored their opinions and concerns regarding understanding of theoretical concepts behind RDA and the new Library Reference Model. The investigation took place in a virtual environment of two of the most popular listservs dedicated to cataloguing and, in this way, allowed a direct and immediate access to opinions expressed by cataloguers around the world. In order to explore their experiences, a qualitative, based on elements of grounded theory, content analysis of archive and most recent posts was conducted and compared with the literature on the research done in the initial period after RDA implementation. The research results indicated some strong divisions among cataloguers and different levels of understanding of the changes being introduced. It also showed a potential paradigm shift in cataloguing, professional knowledge and mental flexibility required of cataloguers. Moreover, the significant amount of learning that cataloguers have had to and will have to undertake in the nearest future, suggests an inordinately important need for adequate training and dialogue between them and the RDA Steering Committee that would be led in a more comprehensible way to enable those who call themselves ‘average cataloguers’ understand the model better and become confident, rather than confused, practitioners.
Three contributions are made to understanding the nature of documents. A survey of definitions of "document" from the last century shows that those definitions which most accurately reflect the ways ...in which the term "document" is used in practice are typically compound definitions, consisting of two or three elements that each refer to a different function of documents: medium, message, and meaning. Locating documents in E. J. Lowe's four-category ontology results in consideration of documents as universals rather than as particulars. Analysis of B. Smith's theory of document acts suggest that all documents, not just the ones that are involved in declarations, are creative in the special sense that they are generative of quasi-abstract entities of the kind that collectively comprise social reality.
The Semantic Web in general and the Linked Open Data Initiative, in particular, are a growing movement for organisations to make their existing data available in a machine-readable format. Thus, ...institutions are highly encouraged to publish, share and interlink their data publicly. The more data are opened on the Web (Open Data), the more integrated sets of data will be connected in the Semantic Web (Linked Open Data). Within this context, libraries can complement their data by linking it to other, external data sources. The purpose of this article is to identify papers that refer to linked data in libraries, emphasising the ways that linked data empower libraries to put their knowledge in the context of the open-world, thus enhancing semantic technology innovations. The study considered papers published between 2008 and 2019 in English and presents the collected literature by grouping it according to the topic each paper refers to. The results show that libraries are facing a period of continuing change which present several challenges and indicate that they are moving towards developing new practices, policies and services.
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