El artículo presenta la investigación, enmarcada en una tesis de maestría, que trata con la pugna sobre la estructura, el diseño y el contenido de los diferentes borradores de Resource Description ...and Access (RDA) publicados entre 2004 y 2008, en el contexto de las deliberaciones y las discusiones generadas por diferentes organizaciones internacionales reunidas por el Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC). Se enumeran los apartados vinculados con el problema de investigación, el marco teórico y la hipótesis, el objeto y los objetivos de la investigación, Se describe la metodología de investigación basada en los postulados teóricos de Pierre Bourdieu. Se muestran los principales resultados y hallazgos del estudio, a partir del análisis de los comentarios de diferentes organizaciones que participan del debate sobre los borradores de RDA y de las respuestas de bibliotecarios argentinos a una encuesta. Las conclusiones a las que arriba la investigación examinan los modelos conceptuales en el ordenamiento de RDA, la injerencia de FRBR en las relaciones de RDA y el vínculo entre catalogación y metadatos, junto con una perspectiva actual del campo del control bibliográfico. = The article presents an investigation belonging to a master degree. The study deals with the dispute about structure, design and content in Resource Description and Access (RDA) drafts versions issued between 2004 and 2008, during delibertations and discussions accomplished by different organizations gathered by Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC). The work enumerates a research problem, a theory framework, a hypothesis, an object and objectives. It shows the main study results and findings from the comments analysis of the organizations that participate in RDA drafts discussions and the Argentine librarians’ answers to a survey. The research conclusions examine the conceptual models in RDA arrangement, FRBR interference in RDA relations and a link between cataloging and metadata, along with an actual perspective about bibliographic control field.
PurposeAs the humanities develop in the realm of increasingly more pronounced digital scholarship, it is important to provide quality subject access to a vast range of heterogeneous information ...objects in digital services. The study aims to paint a representative picture of the current state of affairs of the use of subject index terms in humanities journal articles with particular reference to the well-established subject access needs of humanities researchers, with the purpose of identifying which improvements are needed in this context.Design/methodology/approachThe comparison of subject metadata on a sample of 649 peer-reviewed journal articles from across the humanities is conducted in a university repository, against Scopus, the former reflecting local and national policies and the latter being the most comprehensive international abstract and citation database of research output.FindingsThe study shows that established bibliographic objectives to ensure subject access for humanities journal articles are not supported in either the world's largest commercial abstract and citation database Scopus or the local repository of a public university in Sweden. The indexing policies in the two services do not seem to address the needs of humanities scholars for highly granular subject index terms with appropriate facets; no controlled vocabularies for any humanities discipline are used whatsoever.Originality/valueIn all, not much has changed since 1990s when indexing for the humanities was shown to lag behind the sciences. The community of researchers and information professionals, today working together on digital humanities projects, as well as interdisciplinary research teams, should demand that their subject access needs be fulfilled, especially in commercial services like Scopus and discovery services.
Information entities are used in ontologies to represent engineering technical specifications, health records, pictures or librarian data about, e.g., narrative fictions, among others. The literature ...in applied ontology lacks a comparison of the state of the art, and foundational questions on the nature of information entities remain open for research. The purpose of the paper is twofold. First, to compare existing ontologies with both each other and theories proposed in philosophy, semiotics, librarianship, and literary studies in order to understand how the ontologies conceive and model information entities. Second, to discuss some open research challenges that can lead to principled approaches for the treatment of information entities, possibly by getting into account the variety of information entity types found in the literature.
FRBR user research has been the least addressed area in FRBR research and development. This article addresses the research gap in evaluating and designing catalogs based on FRBR user research. It ...draws from three user studies concerning FRBR-based catalogs: (1) user evaluation of three FRBR-based catalogs, (2) user participatory design of a prototype catalog based on the FRBR model, and (3) user evaluation of the resulting FRBR prototype catalog. The major findings from the user studies are highlighted and discussed for future development of FRBR-based catalogs that support various user tasks.
The Mapping Manuscript Migrations (MMM) project transformed three separate datasets relating to the history and provenance of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts into a unified knowledge graph. The ...source databases are: Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, from the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania; Bibale, from the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT-CNRS, Paris); and Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries, from the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The data consist of more than 20 million RDF triples which have been mapped to the MMM Data Model. The model combines classes and properties from CIDOC-CRM and FRBR, together with some specific MMM elements. The Knowledge Graph was created using the MMM data transformation pipeline. The MMM dataset is available from the Zenodo repository, and can be directly deployed on a SPARQL endpoint using a docker recipe. To test and demonstrate its usefulness, the MMM Knowledge Graph is in use in the MMM Semantic Portal: https://mappingmanuscriptmigrations.org
Documents relating to the performing arts have proven a complex and somewhat unresolved part of the data models which fuel modern bibliographic cataloguing standards. The model of bibliographic data ...known as FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records), which is now superseded by LRM (IFLA Library Reference Model), underpin cataloguing standards, yet do not easily deal with materials relating to performance. The article introduces FRBR and LRM, and highlights existing literature which explores these models as related to performance documentation. An exposition of an important paper by Miller and Le Boeuf from 2005 is given, and their model forms the basis of discussion. Three particularly rich areas are discussed through a FRBR and LRM lens: the relationship between theater programs and performance; the relationship between performance and recording; and, whether Miller and Le Boeuf’s solutions can and should be extended to all the performing arts. Considering how performance documentation fits into the key bibliographic models of FRBR and LRM, reflects and enriches the general conceptual questions about “what is a performance?” and the idea of performance-as-document.
This discussion illustrates how the functional requirements for bibliographic records-family user tasks inform services to all users. The user tasks are placed into a larger context called the ...want-find-get-manage framework. In combination with the user tasks, want-find-get-manage facilitates a programmatic approach to the catalog specifically and to services in general. By doing so, traditional bibliographic content and services may become more effective while opening avenues for new resources and services, such as those built around born-digital content and non-bibliographic metadata. As a result, libraries become full partners with users, enabling innovation, learning, and growth.
The "Advances in Library Data and Access" column examines technological advances internal and external to libraries. The focus is on how library data is created and used. The strength of the column ...is its broad, international focus and contributors are encouraged to explore issues and recent advances in information technology relevant to their geographical region, as well as the larger, global audience. Interested authors are invited to submit proposals and articles to the column editor at moulaisonhe@missouri.edu. Please include "IILR Submission" in the subject line of the email.
Library cataloging and metadata are undergoing a major transformation. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institution's Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records Library Reference Model, the ongoing development of Resource Description and Access, and the Library of Congress' Bibliographic Framework initiative are the three programs currently underway which will, in all probability, profoundly affect how library bibliographic data is recorded, stored, and retrieved. These initiatives will also allow library holdings, for the first time, to be visible on the Web and discoverable for users, and, therefore, sharable with other cultural resource communities. What will library metadata look like in the next century? What knowledge and skills will be needed to navigate in this new world? Where are we headed?
As with any model declaration, the FRBR-LRM text presents a description of the model in a way that is intended to be complete in itself, but cannot cover the reasoning behind the decisions taken or ...describe the alternatives that were ultimately rejected. In this brief discussion, I have highlighted some of the areas in which FRBRLRM innovates with respect to the previous models in the FRBR family and provided some of the considerations that led the Consolidation Editorial Group to the solutions adopted. All these decision points led to consequences for other aspects of the model, as the goal is to produce a single consistent model. Many of these issues have been discussed in one form or another since the initial publication of FRBR in 1998. I do not doubt that discussion of the most effective and useful ways of modelling bibliographically relevant phenomena will continue through the next steps in the completion and adoption of FRBR-LRM, and beyond.
PurposeThis paper focuses on the way users navigate bibliographic families not only when a user has no specific document in mind but also when he/she has a specific predefined need in ...mind.Design/methodology/approachTo this end, the Epic of Kings was selected as a test-bed for the study and both situations were studied based on International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions-Library Reference Model (IFLA-LRM), but the potential users (participants of this study) were not directly exposed to the entities of the model. Card sorting, interview and distributing questionnaire constituted the data-gathering process.FindingsAlmost all of the participants in this study, when they had no specific resource in mind, generated a top-down view of the family, and in this view, all of them disregarded the item entity and lots of them disregarded the manifestations also. Yet on the other side, when they were asked to assume themselves in certain situations (in need of a specific work with a predefined expression and format), they viewed the bibliographic family from a bottom-up approach.Originality/valueMost of the studies in this area regard the navigation process of users as a top-down approach and the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) family as a model suitable for hierarchical top-down visualization of bibliographic families. Yet this study poses the bottom-up approach of users regarding the family.
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