University of Arizona

Revised, Final

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Digital Libraries

For the Exercise, your first choice should be to use a search engine or directory like Google or Yahoo! If you have trouble making a search engine or directory choice, select from SearchEngine Watch, http://www.searchenginewatch.com/.

1. DLESE, Digital Library for Earth Systems Education. URL: http://www.dlese.org/
2. GEM, Gateway to Educational Materials. URL: http://www.geminfo.org/"
3. EdNA Online: Education Network Australia. URL: http://www.edna.edu.au/
4. Alexandria Digital Library. URL: http://webclient.alexandria.ucsb.edu/
5. Perseus Digital Library. URL: http://www.perseus.org/
6. Artemis Digital Library. URL: http://artemis.goknow.com/artemis/index.adp - Make sure you choose Guest Login.
7. KidsWeb. URL: http://www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb/

Bibliographic Utilities

1. OCLC: http://www.oclc.org/home/
   Browse/Learn how to use the OCLC MARC documentation: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/bib/toc.htm.
2. RLG: http://www.rlg.org/rmrdi/
   Browse/learn how to use the RLIN MARC Record

Specific Cataloging Services

1. OCLC Connexion http://connexion.oclc.org/
2. RLIN: You MUST Download RLIN Terminal to use RLIN.
   RLIN Cataloging: http://www.rlg.org/ric/riccat.html

Standards

• Standards for Describing Information Packages (a.k.a IBOs and Information Resources)
  1. ISBD - Covers only ISBD(G) - http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/isbdg.htm - is incorporated into AACR2R.
  2. MARC21 - http://www.loc.gov/marc/
• Specialized Metadata Standards (some of these are not just limited to digital resources):
  Many of these can be thought of as "new" content standards because they have emerged in response to the need for more metadata in digital resources and by specialized and technical communities.
  1. Digital Geo-spatial Materials: FGDC's CSDGM
  2. Digital Learning Objects: IEEE-LOM
  3. Digital Visual Resources: CDWA
  4. Digital Archives: EAD
  5. Government Information (GILS)- http://www.gils.net/index.html
  6. Electronic Resources, Computer FilesDublin Core
     is now a NISO standard Z39.85
  7. Humanities Texts (TEI) - http://www.tei-c.org/
  8. Multimedia, Audio, Video, Music Materials: MPEG-7 http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/0-7534-8-4613796-3.html is described in this project - http://www.surfnet.nl/innovatie/surfworks/doc/mmmetadata/; MPEG-21 (Multi-media Framework) is the latest work as per ISO available here - http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/mobile/MPEG7/Mpeg21.html
  9. CIMI Spectrum for the museum community, museum objects metadata, - http://www.cimi.org/wg/xml_spectrum/index.html
• Standards for Identification
  1. International Standard Numbering System: International Standard Book Number, International Standard Music Number, International Standard Recording Code - http://www.isbn.org/
  2. ISSN - http://www.issn.org/
  3. ISRN - http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/fiz/service/isrn.html
  4. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) - http://www.doi.org/
• Standards for Constructing Thesauri
  1. Z39.19 - Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri (National Information Standards, Ansi/Niso Z39.19-1993)
     Can get Full-Text of this standard from NISO (see below)
• Standards for Retrieval
  1. Z39.50 - http://www.loc.gov/z3950/
     "Z39.50" refers to the International Standard, ISO 23950: "Information Retrieval (Z39.50): Application Service Definition and Protocol Specification", and to ANSI/NISO Z39.50. The Library of Congress is the Maintenance Agency and Registration Authority for both standards, which are technically identical (though with minor editorial differences).
• Standards Organizations:
  1. NISO - http://www.niso.org/ -
     Can get full-text of Z39.19, Z39.50, and Z39.85 at website (see index of standards for complete list of standards)
  2. W3C - http://www.w3c.org/ - Good source for standards such as HTML, XML, RDF, and new web-related standards because of Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the next generation of the web, called the Semantic Web
  3. ISO - http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.openerpage - good source of all international standards.

Classification Tools

1. Library of Congress Classification Scheme - URL: http://classweb.loc.gov/
   Login Required!!
   Use Library of Congress Classification (LCCN) Outline - URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html
2. Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) - URL: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/fp/about/ddc_21_summaries.htm
3. Universal Decimal Classification - URL: http://www.udcc.org/
4. National Library of Medicine (NLM) Classification - URL: http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/class/

Vocabulary Control

1. Library of Congress Subject Headings - (general subjects) - Access on your own through your local library or through workarounds on the Authority Files described below which are via CatExpress, DRA, or LC Catalog.
2. Sears List of Subject Headings - (children's subjects) - Access on your own through your local library or through workarounds in CatExpress (subject headings used in MARC when from Sears are coded differently - see MARC Bibliographic Subject 6xx (below) for details).
3. Thesaurus of Graphic Materials (TGM) - Access on your own http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/ and through workarounds in CatExpress (subject headings from the TGM when used in MARC bibliographic records are coded differently - see MARC Bibliographic Subject 6xx (below) for details)
4. Art & Architecture Thesaurus - (art & architecture subjects) - http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/
   Note: Getty's Vocabulary Control Program includes maintenance of three vocabularies: The AAT above, ULAN (Union List of Artist Names), and TGN (Thesaurus of Geographic Names).
5. Medical Subject Headings - (medical subjects) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html - MARC Bibliographic records can also use and indicate MeSH records in 6xx; see MARC Authority Format for details.
6. ERIC Thesaurus - (educational subjects) - http://www.ericfacility.net/extra/pub/thessearch.cfm
   Note: ERIC database is located here: http://www.askeric.org/
7. GeoREF Thesaurus - (geography subjects) - Access through UA Sabio at http://www.library.arizona.edu/indexes/links/georef.shtml - once inside use the Thesaurus link to search for example, the term Aquifers
8. GEONet Names Server - (foreign place names) - http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html
9. Other subjects: feel free to pick other subjects (for example, INSPEC Thesaurus for physics, astronomy subjects, Library Literature (does it have a thesaurus or just a controlled vocabulary?) for LIS, etc.
10. ASIS Thesaurus for Information Science (fully online) - http://www.asis.org/Publications/Thesaurus/isframe.htm
11. ASCE (Civil Engineering) Keyword List to the Civil Engineering Database - http://www.pubs.asce.org/subjlst.html

Authority Control (traditional - in libraries)

1. LC Authorities: http://authorities.loc.gov
2. MARC 21 Authority Format: http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ecadhome.html
3. Name Authority File and Subject Authority File (SAF has the authority records for the Library of Congress Subject Headings; NAF has the names established by LC and other catalogers for personal, corporate names, uniform titles, conferences, etc.)
4. MARC Bibliographic Subject 6xx tags indicate source from where heading (if LCSH, TGM, or other) was derived - http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/lite/elbdsubj.html ; see MARC Code Lists for terms to see a complete list of sources from where headings can come - http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/relators/re0006su.html
   Note: Three ways to search these files for this class: 1) CatExpress Authority; DRA (details below); and LC Catalog (on your own).
   DRA (a library automation system vendor) provides the LC Authority files for free searching on the web. The DRA LC Authority Search is located at http://lcmarc.dra.com/LCAUTH
   • Use this catalog's examples of Subject Authority records by following this subject search hyperlink: http://lcmarc.dra.com/db/LCAUTH/subject.html - Use subject headings such as gender studies, art in america, automobiles and study the structure of the records retrieved.
   • Use this catalog also to search for authority records of names as titles. Try the title search Lecture Notes and then try Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
   • Use author search with the example, NATO.
5. Library of Congress Catalog - http://catalog.loc.gov/
   Use Subject search

Ontologies, Lexical Databases

1. What is an ontology? http://www.semanticweb.org/knowmarkup.html
2. Stanford KSL Network Servers - http://www-ksl-svc.stanford.edu:5915/
   Register to use and read about Ontolingua ontology
3. SHOE - Semantic Search - SHOE Search Engine
   Must have IE, allow applets, and have good network connections
4. WordNet - http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ - an electronic lexical database (natural language processing).
5. Similarities and Differences between thesauri and ontologies: Read this paper, http://www.fao.org/agris/aos/Documents/BackgroundAOS.html

Professional Links to People, Associations, Listservs, Etc. in the Field

1. Arlene G. Taylor's Homepage - http://www.pitt.edu/~agtaylor/index.html
2. Music Library Association - http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/
3. Society of American Archivists - http://www.archivists.org/
4. American Library Assciation Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, ALA ALCTS - http://www.ala.org/alcts/; ALCTS Committees are important: http://www.ala.org/alcts/organization/index.html
5. International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions, IFLA - http://www.ifla.org/; IFLA Acitivities & Services are important: http://www.ifla.org/act-serv.htm, specifically, UBCIM, and IFLA publications.
6. jESSE Listserv - http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/jesse.html
7. AutoCat Listserv - international discussion forum for issues related to cataloging and authority control - http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/autocat.html

General Purpose References and Tools