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Everything old is new again: Finding a place for knowledge structures in a satisficing world

Campbell, D. Grant and Brundin, Michael and MacLean, Graham and Baird, Catherine (2007) Everything old is new again: Finding a place for knowledge structures in a satisficing world. In Tennis, Joseph T., Eds. Proceedings North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization 2007 1, pages pp. 21-30, Toronto, Ontario.

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Abstract

The authors use an exploratory project involving Web resources related to Alzheimer’s Disease to explore ways in RDF metadata can more effectively translate the virtues of the traditional vertical file to a Web environment form using Semantic Web descriptive standards. In so doing, they argue against the separation of “bibliographic control” from the socially-embedded institutional practices of reference work, collection development, and the management of information ephemera. Libraries of the future will use specific Web technologies that lend themselves to sophisticated and rigorous knowledge structures, and link them with librarians’ skills in information harvesting and evaluation.

EPrint Type:Conference Paper
Keywords:bibliographic control, cataloguing, cataloging, Semantic Web
Subjects:World Wide Web
Knowledge Organization
ID Code:1896
Deposited On:05 June 2007
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