Over the past eight years, we have been involved in the development of a set of
complementary and orthogonal ontologies that can be used for the description of the main …

Resource D escription & A ccess (RDA) is intended to provide a flexible and extensible
framework that can accommodate all types of content and media within rapidly evolving …

Purpose–There has been a significant increase in activity over the past few years to
integrate library metadata with the Semantic Web. While much of this has involved the …

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This article introduces the problem of collocative integrity present in long‐lived classification
schemes that undergo several changes. A case study of the subject “eugenics” in the D …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the Records in Contexts proposal of a
conceptual model (RiC-CM) from the International Council on Archives'(ICA) archival …

摘要作为新一代编目规则, RDA 在应用模型, 书目记录的结构, 术语和编目规则等方面与其前
一个版本AACR2 相比, 有很大变化. RDA 首先区分书目对象相关实体, 再确定各类实体所需描述 …

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 …

Purpose–Library‐world “languages of description” are increasingly being expressed using
the resource description framework (RDF) for compatibility with linked data approaches. This …

The article discusses the future of universal bibliographic control in the context of the
Semantic Web. Resource Description Framework RDF), the basis of the Semantic Web …