Bibliographic Description Research Articles

ISBD統合版の研究 : 改訂内容の検討とその意義(グループ研究発表 第54回研究大会)

ISBD統合版の研究 : 改訂内容の検討とその意義(グループ研究発表 第54回研究大会)

Book Review: RDA Essentials

With his excellent reference work, RDA Essentials, Thomas Brenndorfer presents a guide to the cataloging code Resource Description and Access (RDA) that is both comprehensive and comprehensible. Brenndorfer provides catalogers with a clear path through RDA, helping them to understand the cataloging code and its underlying principles in plain English. Through his thorough introduction, Brenndorfer clearly and intelligently illustrates for readers the connections between the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records model (FRBR), FRBR user tasks, and the creation of bibliographic description. Readers of this work will thus gain not only a fairly complete bibliographic description of their chosen item, but also a greater appreciation for RDA’s structure and conceptual underpinnings.

U progu nowożytnej polskiej bibliografii dziedzinowej. Julian Aleksander Kamiński i jego Piśmiennictwo polskie rolniczo-technologiczne od roku 1549 do 1835 (1836)

Subject bibliography in Poland started to be genuinely developed as late as in the nineteenth century. Historia literatury polskiej wystawiona w spisie dziel drukiem ogloszonych (Vilnius 1814) of Feliks Bentkowski was the first reference book in this field. Since 1830 subject bibliography was a domain not only of librarians, writers or historicians of literature but also scholars, professors and community organisers. Inspired by Bentkowski’s contribution, Julian Aleksander Kaminski (1805-1860) compiled the first Polish bibliography of agriculture Piśmiennictwo polskie rolniczo-technologiczne od roku 1540 do 1835 (Lviv 1836) - in fact one of the earliest editorially self-contained bibliography in Poland. It consisted of 358 entries in chronological order, out of which 260 dated from the nineteenth century. Some entries were augmented by annotations. Kaminski put visible effort to employ most bibliographic rules prevailing at that time, in particular with respect to compiling bibliographic description. Although a couple of methodological shortcomings were also present in this work, it proved Kaminski’s expertise in the field of bibliography and his ability to difference between bibliography and history of literature.

Research and Publishing Activities of the Russian State Library in the Mirror of Bibliography and Scientometrics

Research and publishing activity is an essential part of functioning of the Russian State Library (RSL). Scientific activity of the Library includes three components: scientific-research, scientific-methodical and scientific-information activities, each of them results in the documents of certain types. Personnel scientific potential of the RSL is compound by the staff of four scientific departments, scientific workers from some other departments, as well as Doctors and Candidates of Sciences — professionals holding other positions. They publish books, articles in journals, as well as reports and papers in conference proceedings. RSL is one of the leading publishing centers in the field of librarianship. Currently there are published five periodicals; the publishing house “Pashkov Dom” publishes monographs, collected scientific papers and conference proceedings. Creation of RSL bibliographic Indexes since the mid-2000s is one of the main activities of the Department of bibliography. The most complete is the updated electronic Index “Russian state library. Publications and electronic resources. Publications of employees”. Another specific form of bibliographing of the RSL publications and its employees is their reflection in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) on the portal eLIBRARY.RU. RSCI is both a scientometric tool and bibliographic resource. RSL provides to RSCI the bibliographic descriptions of all materials published in the journals “Bibliotekovedenie” (Library and Information Science) and “Observatory of Culture”, and selectively adds and corrects the descriptions of the RSL publications and publications of its employees.

Information Standards: Introduction

EDITOR'S SUMMARYStandards and interoperable systems are crucial in the work of information professionals, applying to bibliographic descriptions, taxonomies, data exchange formats and markup and more recently for linking data. They enable access to archival information and associations to data in other contexts. The ASIS&T Standards Committee represents the Association with the International Standards Organization, the American National Standards Institute and related organizations and serves as an informative liaison with the membership. This special section explores standards as they relate to metadata for linking library data, recognizing MARC as an early and evolving standard and reviewing standards specifically for archival description. Discussions of records management at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Battelle Memorial Institute and the Mayo Clinic illustrate the necessity for standards‐driven metadata and systems within large, complex organizations. The Program for Cooperative Cataloging and OCLC's Virtual International Authority File exemplify projects working toward best practices for linking data.

A Comparative Study on Methods of Bibliographic Description in Junzhai-Dushuzhi and Zhizhai Shu lu Jieti

A Comparative Study on Methods of Bibliographic Description in Junzhai-Dushuzhi and Zhizhai Shu lu Jieti

JURGIO PLATERIO KNYGOS VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETO BIBLIOTEKOJE

Straipsnyje nagrinėjamos Vilniaus universiteto bibliotekoje saugomos dvidešimt penkios naujai išaiškintos lietuvių kalbos ir raštijos tyrinėtojo, bibliografo Jurgio Platerio (1810–1836) asmeninei bibliotekai priklausiusios knygos, pateikiami išsamūs jų bibliografiniai aprašai su iššifruotomis šiose knygose esančiomis proveniencijomis. Remiantis naujais duomenimis, atskleidžiamas papildytas Domo Kauno monografijoje „Bibliotheca Georgii comitis de Plater: Jurgio Platerio biblioteka – Lietuvos knygos kultūros ir mokslo paminklas“ (Vilnius, 2012) pateiktas J. Platerio asmeninės bibliotekos vaizdas teminiu, chronologiniu bei kalbiniu aspektais.

BOOKS BY JURGIS PLATERIS IN VILNIUS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

The article aims to provide analysis of 25 newly identified books from the personal library of the Lithuanian language and writing researcher, bibliographer Jurgis Plateris (Jerzy Plater, 1810–1836); present their thorough bibliographic descriptions with encoded provenances embedded in these books. On the basis of new research data, an updated version of J. Plater’s personal library, described in the monography by Domas Kaunas Bibliotheca Georgii comitis de Plater: Jurgio Platerio biblioteka – Lietuvos knygos kultūros ir mokslo paminklas (Jerzy Plater’s library – a monument of Lithuanian Book Culture and Science. Vilnius, 2012, in Lithuanian), has been presented. Plater’s library image has been update from the thematic, chronological and linguistic points of view. It has been established that currently, in total 116 titles of documents stored in Plater’s library have survived, among them 100 books, 6 scientific journals, the number of graphics and manuscript documents has not changed (one document of graphics) and 9 manuscripts. Given the insignificant number of surviving bibliographic items of Plater’s library, one cannot claim that Jerzy Plater was interested exclusively in one specific field of science or public activities. His library contained historical, legal, linguistic, philosophical and literary items, as well as those from folklore, natural sciences and religion. The available sources lead us to believe that the surviving part of Plater’s personal library is dominated by historical and legal treatises published in the 18–19th centuries in German and Latin languages. There was not a single item attributed to technical and engineering fields, sciences (mathematics and physics), chemistry or medicine. Judging by the surviving documents, the majority of publications were in German, with a lesser number of publications in Latin, Polish, Lithuanian, French and other languages. We cannot claim that all the books stored in Vilnius University library that once belonged to Plater’s personal library have been discovered so far. There is a high likelihood that some ‘hidden’ books (in particular, in the stock of non-Lithuanian books published in the 19th century) might still be discovered. They could contribute to enriching and specifying the big Picture of a most interesting personal library dating back to the start of the 19th century.

Physics at the University of Lviv since the 17th century until the second world war: Addenda to the bibliography

Previously, an attempt was made to compile in a series of papers a complete bibliography of works related to physics at the University of Lviv. The period since the foundation of the University in 1661 until the division of the Chair of Physics in 1872 was discussed by Rovenchak (2014). Special attention was paid to the development of theoretical physics, starting from the first professor, Oskar Fabian (Rovenchak 2009), followed by the famous physicist Marian Smoluchowski (Rovenchak 2012), and finally the Interbellum (Rovenchak 2013). The history of astronomy at the University of Lviv, albeit without a special bibliographic section, is presented by Novosyadlyj (2011) and Apunevych et al. (2011). The development of the experimental physics since 1872 still awaits a detailed study. The present paper will provide some additions to this bibliography: firstly with the descriptions of several missing early works from the 17th and 18th century and then, with a presentation of the activity of Wojciech Urbański. It is followed by a couple of works by Oskar Fabian and Marian Smoluchowski. Finally, minor complements to the bibliographic lists from the 1930s will be made, including popular newspaper articles. We strive to present the bibliographic description as completely as possible, in particular by avoiding abbreviations in names and titles, so that readers can extract any information of their interest. All items were examined de visu except for those marked with an asterisk (*) after the number. Przedstawione materiały, dotyczące fizyki na Uniwersytecie Lwowskim na przestrzeni wieków od XVII do XX, będą przydatne dla dalszych badań historii fizyki i bibliografii nauk przyrodniczych w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej.

The Library as History

The traditional library history is institution oriented. The cultural turn of the humanities brings new themes into the focus of historical research. Culture is seen as a heterogeneous open and dynamic ‘polysystem’ and as a repertoire of action. The ‘reception’ of the book is seen as a constructive activity. Libraries are of special value for cultural research: they host the most extensive and little known collections of documents for the history of the human mind. Libraries should provide in addition to the bibliographic description copy specific description, provenance and collection information for the reconstruction of libraries. So they can contribute to main fields of historical anthropological research like memory, cultural transfer, cultural monuments or gender studies. International cooperation is needed to alleviate the access to the almost limitless stores of research sources.

How Should Catalogers Provide Authority Control for Journal Article Authors? Name Identifiers in the Linked Data World

ABSTRACTThis article suggests that catalogers can provide authority control for authors of journal articles by linking to external international authority databases. It explores the representation of article authors from three disciplines in four databases: International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI), Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID), Scopus, and Virtual International Authority File (VIAF). VIAF and Scopus are particularly promising databases for journal author names, but we believe that a combination of several name databases holds more promise than relying on a single database. We provide examples of RDF links between bibliographic description and author identifiers, including a partial BIBFRAME 2.0 description

Guest Editorial: The Pivot to E

In 2004, Deanna Marcum, associate librarian for library services at the Library of Congress (LC), gave an address titled “The Future of Cataloging” in which she detailed the many ways that the Internet had already changed research for students. She asked whether, in light of the increasing power of search engine indexing, digital resources should receive the same careful, detailed bibliographic description as printed materials. At that time, Google and several large research libraries were involved in the massive digitization project that became Google Books. Since then, other large digitization projects have combined to produce full-text digital versions of a great deal of the contents not under copyright of many research libraries.

From Notes to Annotations: Dedications as Data in the Library of Jacques Derrida at Princeton University

Current standards for describing rare materials are limited in the mechanisms they provide for encoding item-specific features, such as the presence of handwritten annotations on a page, in a way that facilitates machine manipulation. As a member of the Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project, Princeton University Library is undertaking initial work to encode handwritten dedications within the library of Jacques Derrida as linked open data. The implications of this modeling work potentially extend well beyond the rare book cataloging community and into many different areas of bibliographic description.

Master-class: from a bibliographic lists to mapping its content (evidently for modeling an exhibition)

An innovative component of modern library-information education should become a trend, in which frames it is possible not only to compact and intensify the study of professional issues, but also to shape tools for future professional activities in the innovation logic of an effective character. This in turn requires integrating multiple types of work in a holistic format. A master class on modeling personal exhibitions and its results in developing problems of reading study with application of bibliographic reconstruction and knowledge mapping is chosen as one of these formats. In the master class course a complex of tasks was solved. Among them are the following: developing the strategy of exhibition modeling, its understanding according to the completeness of information and its degree of semantic coagulation as a way to learn and present information in the exhibition format; forming the communicative culture in the exhibition presentation process; improving analytical skills, creative thinking, and improvement of psychologic-pedagogical professionalism through familiarization with the personal contribution of a scientist related to readers study; the acquisition of knowledge and skills to map knowledge. The exhibition was carried out in several stages in the logic «from simple to complex» and starts with learning the exhibition structural design options, their semantic and color solutions; exploring the scientist contribution based on the bibliographic description of publications, annotations and abstracts, later on the basis of studying publications themselves and citation. The latter allows not only to map its content in different ways, but also to build the professional communication sociometric matrix. As a result of this master class with elements of a business game students acquire specific knowledge (in our case readers’ study); a various options of a personal exhibition intelligent-information products are created; the specialist intellectual capacity grows significantly, cognitive and metacognitive skills of specialists are developed; methodological knowledge based on innovative search activities is formed. The heuristic potential of the master class lies in the fact that the tendency to internal resources of a personality determining the propensity to innovate in their professional activities is clearly expressed in the world and domestic science.

Shaker Zahra Author Bibliometric Study - Analysis of Scientific Publications from 1985 until 2014

The study is presented aims to demonstrate through a bibliometric study, analysis of academic, scientific and technical publications developed by Shaker Zahra between the years 1985-2014, representing 29 years of study. To enhance this objective, we sought in the first instance to a bibliographic description of bibliometrics, entrepreneurship and the relationship between them. After this, was demonstrated academic and professional history Zahra, describing their field. In sequence, it was presented the methodology of the study, which had focused its characterization longitudinal and quantitative research, which allowed the development of bibliometric analysis. The final part included the description of limitations and proposals for future studies, closing the research, with conclusions and references. The study was developed through the analysis of 160 scientific papers published by Shaker Zahra in partnership with other researchers in high-impact journals and academic and scientific importance were obtained at Portal Capes and Google Scholar Portal.

Functional requirements for bibliographic description in digital environments

Nowadays in digital information environments, various types of resources coexist with heterogeneous metadata formats and standards and efforts have been made to achieve interoperability in order to use multiple metadata standards and reuse metadata records by developing strategies, which range from simple mappings among metadata elements to complex structural modeling. Dealing with information resources requires a description of form and machine readable content with results that are understandable to humans and can meet the interoperability requirements between information environments. Considering this, this research proposes a reflection and suggests the development of an architecture for semantic bibliographic descriptions that ensures interoperability in digital information environments. By using exploratory and descriptive analysis, we found that Descriptive Cataloguing methodologies and a bibliographic ontology description, explained in the rules and codes of cataloguing and in metadata standards, redesign the development of better structured new digital information environments to retrieve information and effectively establish interoperability.

A Research on the Background of Writing Sinpyeon Jejong Gyojang Chongnok and its Bibliographic Description

A Research on the Background of Writing Sinpyeon Jejong Gyojang Chongnok and its Bibliographic Description

Using BIBFRAME and Library Linked Data to Solve Real Problems: An Interview with Eric Miller of Zepheira

ABSTRACTIn 2011 the Library of Congress commissioned the development of the next generation of machine-readable cataloging. The result of that effort was the Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME), which employed linked data and Semantic Web technologies to provide the basis for the future of bibliographic description. Some people are optimistic about the potential of BIBFRAME, others view BIBFRAME as an interesting experiment with an element of uncertainty as to its practical application, and still others are less optimistic about its prospects. To get a clearer picture of BIBFRAME and its true potential, we contacted Eric Miller, a founding father of Semantic Web technologies, a member of the original BIBFRAME team and president of Zepheira, a company that helps libraries increase their visibility on the open web. This column is a conversation with Eric in which we discuss the past, present and future of BIBFRAME and library linked data, including some success stories.

FRBR and the publication statement: the problem of identification of relationships and attributes of the entity Manifestation

The aim of the study is to make a proposal for cataloguing selected relationships and attributes of the entity Manifestation concerning the publication area. The cataloguing code RDA: Resource Description and Access lists publication statements representing the publication attributes of the entity Manifestation among core elements. The identification of relationships concerning publication activities (i.e. responsibility for publication) is dealt with by the RDA code too but in the cataloguing practice is mostly ignored. Our study focuses on relationships and attributes of the entity Manifestation concerning publication areas (especially the name of a publisher and occasionally the place of publication). There is the content analysis method of bibliographic records used. Based on the theoretical foundations of the bibliographic universe and results achieved by the content analysis, we propose a new way of cataloguing and identification of attributes and relationships of the Manifestation instances concerning publication area for the cataloguing practice also outside the Czech Republic. The study results from a research of the Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship dealing with trends of bibliographic description in the digital environment. A group of students have participated in the research within a project course Information and Library Services. We would like to express our acknowledgement to Petra and Petr Žabicka who have provided us with an export of bibliographic records of printed books published in the Czech Republic in 2014 and also to Dr. Martin Soucek who has helped us with processing bibliographic data. Barbora Drobikova, Marie Odehnalova, Ema Juranova, Kristýna Kralova, Ladislav Svatos Ustav informacnich studii a knihovnictvi Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozoficka fakulta U Křiže 8 158 00 Praha 5-Jinonice

ONTOLOGY OF CONCEPTUAL APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

The study presents the state of the problem in theory and practice of ontology of conceptual apparatus for processing bibliographic information. It specifies the essence of the ontology of fundamental concepts of bibliographic apparatus. The structure of the “bibliography” concept is shown. The substantial characteristics of the bibliography are determined. Meanings of the bibliography, bibliographic information, bibliographic list, bibliographic record, bibliographic description, and bibliographical reference are explained. The important features of GOST 7.1 – 2003 and GOST R7.0.5 – 2008, which show the differences in the elements of bibliographic description, and bibliographical references, are highlighted. Classification of the bibliography concepts is demonstrated. On the basis of the bibliography conceptual apparatus and its common scheme, the mental map of bibliographic information is developed. This makes possible to form the structure of the bibliographic information in the XML-document for further automation of bibliographic information processing and formation the informational structure in the software module of synthesis and analysis of bibliographic references.