Organizing Information: Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies
Overview: Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies
Information Organization and Retrieval
Information Properties
Information Hierarchy
Information Life Cycle
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
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
Controlled Vocabularies for Information Access
Uses of Controlled Vocabularies
Types of Indexing Languages
Indexing Languages
Thesauri
Thesauri (cont.)
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
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