Organizing Information: Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies

12/14/98


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Organizing Information: Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies

Overview: Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies

Information Organization and Retrieval

Information Properties

Information Hierarchy

Information Hierarchy

Information Life Cycle

Information Life Cycle

Origins

Origins

Origins

Structure of an IR System

Metadata

Types of Metadata

Metadata Systems

Goals of Descriptive Cataloging (AACRII/MARC)

Dublin Core Elements

RDF (W3C)

SGML & XML

Databases & Metadata

Controlled Vocabularies

Controlled Vocabularies

Names

Problems with Names

The problem

Rules for description

Authority control

Conditions of Authorship?

Added Entries

Choice of Name

Form of the Name

Name Authority Files

Name Authority Files

Name authority files

Controlled Vocabularies for Information Access

Structure of an IR System

Uses of Controlled Vocabularies

Types of Indexing Languages

Indexing Languages

Indexing Languages

Thesauri

Thesauri (cont.)

Thesauri (cont.)

Why develop a thesaurus?

Why develop a thesaurus?

Preliminary considerations

Preliminary Considerations

Development of a Thesaurus

Flow of Work in Thesaurus Construction

The Indexing Process

Application: The Indexing Process (Manual)

Classification Systems

Classification Systems (cont.)

Automatic Indexing and Classification

Clustering

Automatic Class Assignment

References

Author: Ray R. Larson

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Home Page: http://sims.berkeley.edu/~ray

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