Overview of content related to 'cataloguing'

Print Editorial: Introduction to Issue 15

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The Managing Editor, Lyndon Pugh, introduces the print edition of Ariadne issue 15.

Much of what is said in this issue of ARIADNE relates to the fundamental aim of the publication, which is to interpret new technology and to strengthen the connections between the technology and the people who manage and use it.

A National Co-ordinating Body for Digital Archiving?

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David Haynes discusses one possible way forward for ensuring that potentially valued digital materials are preserved for future study and use.

During the supporting study the authors consulted various stake-holders in the creation, distribution and use of digital materials. A number of recommendations arose from this study and are presented in this paper. These recommendations are not official policy and represent the authors’ views of one possible way forward for ensuring that potentially valued digital materials are preserved for future study and use.

The Access Catalogue Gateway to Resources

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Terry Hanson explores how libraries might develop effective ways of indicating their access arrangements to their users.

Libraries are developing the access model of information provision and questions are raised regarding the method by which users discover the resources to which they have access. The traditional holdings model depended wholly upon the traditional catalogue. Conceptually it was a simple task to catalogue a library's physical stock.

RDF Seminar

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Matthew Dovey reports on the RDF seminar held in the Stakis Hotel, Bath.

On the 8th May, following almost immediately after their MODELS 7 Workshop, UKOLN hosted a half-day seminar entitled “RDF: What is it all about?”. RDF, or Resource Description Framework, is one of the latest TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) to emerge from the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), and is of particular pertinence to the library and collection management communities as one of its intended applications is the interchange of catalogue or metadata.