Full Description
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 their representation in the context of the Semantic Web. Subsequent chapters cover bibliographic information organization, linked open data, methodologies for publishing library metadata, discussion of the wider environment (museum, archival and publishing communities) and users, followed by a conclusion.
Contents
List of figures and tablesList of abbreviationsIntroduction: Why we have to look to the Semantic Web for a new technological environmentAbout the authorsChapter 1: Bibliographic information organization: a view from now into the pastAbstract:IntroductionUniversal Bibliographic Control - the traditional viewUBC at international levelFR family of conceptual models and application to cataloguesObjectives of the catalogue and user tasksThe object of bibliographic description: ISBD, FRBR, and RDA/ONIXMAchine Readable Cataloguing: from ISO 2709 through XMLPrinciples and rules: 1961 to 2009 and beyondChapter 2: Semantic web and linked open dataAbstract:IntroductionOnce upon a time, before the InternetThe InternetWorld Wide WebSemantic WebTriplesURIsNamespacesGraphsOntologies and application profilesOpen World Assumption and AAA principleProvenanceMixing and matching metadataMapping, alignment and harmonizationLinked data, open linked data and the linked data cloudChapter 3: Publishing bibliographic element sets and value vocabulariesAbstractIntroductionBibliographic metadata as contentBibliographic standards and models in the Semantic WebLiaising with othersRepresenting current standards in RDFVocabulary management infrastructureMultilingual environmentChapter 4: Publishing datasets as linked open dataAbstract:IntroductionCreating linked triples from local dataBuilding linksConstrained and unconstrained elementsBibliographic application profilesCase studiesChapter 5: We are not alone but part of the linked data environmentAbstract:IntroductionCIDOC CRM and library and archival communitiesPublishing, distribution and rights holding communitiesTerminologies, translations and transformationsUser and machine generated metadataConclusionReferencesIndex
