Internet Cataloging Research Articles

Child Health Improvement in a Summer Camp (Parental Opinion)

Introduction: Efficiency criteria of recreational facilities for children shall be updated in the light of goals and tasks set for contemporary camps. Objective: To evaluate parents’ opinion about organization of recreation and health improvement in children’s summer camps. Materials and methods: In 2019–2020, an anonymous questionnaire-based survey of 343 parents, potential consumers of children’s recreation services, from 48 Russian regions was carried out with support of the Internet catalog of children’s camps incamp.ru. Results: According to the parents, the main purpose of the children’s stay in the camp is rest (88.0 % of the respondents; 95 % confidence interval (CI): 84.6–91.5), mastering of communication skills and making new friends (79.9 %; 95 % CI: 75.6–84.1), health improvement (49.0 %; 95 % CI: 43.7–54.3), and acquisition of new knowledge (48.1 %; 95 % CI: 42.8–53.4). A third of the parents positively assessed health improvement of their child in the camp without specifying its criteria (32.3 %; 95 % CI: 27.4–37.4); 27.1 % (95 % CI: 22.4–31.8) noted an improvement in the child physical and emotional state. The respondents believed that child health improvement was strongly influenced by increased physical activity (86.6 %; 95 % CI: 83.0–90.2), diet quality (83.7 %; 95 % CI: 79.8–87.6), camp location (77.0 %; 95 % CI: 72.5–81.4), and living conditions (74.3 %; 95 % CI: 69.7–79.0). The parents were of the opinion that the length of stay was of least importance for health improvement (32.1 %; 95 % CI: 27.1–37.0). Conclusions: An effective system of developing children’s recreation and health improvement should take into account that parents and guardians are an essential part of it as potential consumers of children’s recreation services and their current expectations need to be considered when updating efficiency criteria for children’s camps.

Computer Database of Russian Arctic Materials

This article presents information about the publicly available computer database of the Arctic materials created on the basis of an Internet catalog comprising the materials of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Materials. The possibilities of using and appending the database are discussed along with the enhancement of its effectiveness and usefulness.

Simulation of the Oxygen Dissociation Reaction under Thermally Nonequilibrium Conditions: Models, Trajectory Calculations, and the Experiment

The aim of this work was to perform a comparative study of the well-known models of physicochemical processes based on the dissociation of oxygen as an example. The comparison was conducted with the use of the available results of calculations obtained by a method of quasi-classical trajectories. The principle of the information provision of models and the complexity of their computational implementation were taken into account in the study. The dissociation process was considered in the framework of one-temperature, two-temperature, and level approximations. The MD Trajectory software was used for the simulation of molecular reaction dynamics. Computer experiments with theoretical models were carried out using an Internet catalog of physical and chemical process models. A modification of the Marrone–Treanor level model was proposed for the approximation of the rate constant of oxygen dissociation obtained by the method of quasi-classical trajectories in the level approximation. The empirical parameter of this model was replaced by a new parameter, which took into account its possible dependence on translational temperature. For a two-temperature approximation, recommendations were formulated in terms of the applicability ranges of the models taking into account the vibrational temperature of dissociating molecules based on a comparison of the results of trajectory calculations and theoretical models. The results of trajectory calculations and theoretical models in a two-temperature approximation were also compared with the available experimental data on the dissociation of oxygen molecules.

An approach to the automatic prediction of earthquakes

A new approach to automatic prediction of earthquakes is considered. The seismotectonic processes are represented using spatio-temporal fields. The parameters of prediction by several fields are the linear predictive function, the value of the alarm decision threshold, as well as the size of the spatio-temporal alarm domain. The considered approach is not bound to a specific data type. Simulation results show that the automatic prediction is available with the use of the Internet catalogues of earthquakes, feasible and rather efficient.

The Internet Imaginary: Between Technology and Technique

The Internet Imaginary: Between Technology and Technique

Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science by Richard Yeo (review)

Reviewed by: Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science by Richard Yeo Patricia Alessi Yeo, Richard, Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2014; cloth; pp. 284; 17 b/w illustrations; R.R.P. US $45.00; ISBN 9780226106564 (review copy supplied by Footprint Books). Richard Yeo’s latest monograph is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of the notes and notebooks of several key figures of the Scientific Revolution, including Robert Boyle, John Locke, Robert Hooke, and John Evelyn, all of whom were important members of the Royal Society of London. They used the Renaissance humanist method of ‘excerpting from texts to build storehouses of proverbs, maxims, quotations and other material in personal notebooks’, culminating in ‘“commonplace” books’, so named as they centred ‘in a common place, under subject or topic headings’ (p. xii). These English virtuosi created their own scholarly archives on a variety of pertinent topics, upon which they – and often others – could draw, leaving a lasting influence on scientific inquiry via their notes and notebooks. [End Page 286] Yeo’s ground-breaking book offers insight into the often overlooked importance of such notes, both the writing and the using of them. He reveals the tension that exists between writing and memory: ‘notes can preserve a tiny part of a lost whole, or act as pithy condensations of ideas never fully committed to paper. Notes work to jog the memory of those who make them, or serve as records for others, including future generations’ (p. xi). Yeo uses references from scientific ‘moderns’, like René Descartes and Michel de Montaigne, to justify the dedication of an entire book to notes. Neither Montaigne nor Descartes held memory in high esteem. Montaigne admitted his was an ‘untrustworthy sieve’ and, as such, ‘could not take on any commission without … [his] … jotter’. In 1648, Descartes advocated to Frans Burman, a Dutch theology student, that one should ‘“test”’ oneself in order to see if one is “good at remembering”’, fully recognising the limits of memory. He advocated the use of notes as a ‘necessary support’ (p. 39) to one’s work. According to Yeo, notes and notebooks acted as ‘talismans’, providing important insights into the ‘underpinnings of a published text’ (p. xi). They were also imperative to those studying subjects whose applicable resources had not yet been collected, collated, and documented. In the seventeenth century, dictionaries and encyclopaedias only provided ‘starting point[s]’ for the newest subjects. Those researching these topics ‘had to embark on the laborious and long-term search for material not yet collected or collated, as well as comparing this to that currently available’ (p. 70). Even by today’s standards, the virtuosi were incredibly prolific; notes, the creation of archives, and the sharing of notes assisted in their endeavours. By focusing on the surviving notes, notebooks, and letters in the papers of select seventeenth-century English intellectual figures, Yeo is able to demonstrate the new ways in which these intellectuals created new methods of managing materials both to aid memory and stimulate inquiry. He explores the types of notes and notebooks used in early modern Europe and historical understandings of the interconnecting links between memory, thinking, and notes; the act of note-taking itself, including methods and purposes of note-taking; how thinking about notes changed the emerging empirical sciences; personal archives, which included diaries, letters, network correspondences, and papers; and, finally, the concept of ‘collective note-taking’, which not only required its participants to ‘establish an archive that received material from various sources, but also to direct and regulate the ways in which information could be sought cooperatively and stored for future use’, with certain ‘protocols, and incentives’ enacted to entice implementation (p. 219). Like today’s Internet catalogues and databases, ‘collective notebooks’ were seen as a ‘“bank” of information, growing richer and more effective over time’ (p. 253), with its usage and reach ever expanding. [End Page 287] This important book serves to highlight our dependence on institutional archival systems, which were only in their infancy for the likes of the English virtuosi. Yeo has expertly demonstrated that the development of notes and note-taking by the virtuosi had profound...

PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTIONS OF LINGUISTIC BOOKS: COMPARISON OF CZECH AND ENGLISH DISCOURSE STRATEGIES

The paper investigates a specific type of genre, descriptions of linguistic books in Internet catalogues of three Czech and three Anglophone publishers. It strives to capture their structural organization and some other characteristics that could bring into relief differences between the Czech and the English discourse strategies of their composition. Using a two-level analytical framework to identify the structural parts of the descriptions and the meaning components that realize them, the study finds certain tendencies that to some extent distinguish between them. Still, the English descriptions and even less so the Czech ones are far from homogeneous and striking dissimilarities can be found both between and within the Anglophone and the Czech publishers.

The utility of museum records for documenting distributions of deep-sea corals off the southeastern United States

Museum records can enhance distribution maps of deep-sea corals (DSC), but museum data usually acquired from online internet catalogues may be of uncertain quality. Also, many museum records are unavailable through online sources. Holdings of four structure-forming DSC species (Lophelia pertusa, Madrepora oculata, Enallopsammia profunda, Enallopsammia rostrata) collected from off the southeastern US were evaluated from the US National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), University of Miami's Marine Invertebrate Museum, and Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History. Data were gathered from online sources, selected publications, and personal visits to the MCZ and NMNH. Each record was located, if possible, specimens were photographed and additional data obtained, including whether the specimen was collected alive or dead. The resulting database was imported into ArcGIS to examine coral distributions. Museums yielded 304 records: 126 L. pertusa, 62 M. oculata, 113 E. profunda, 3 E. rostrata. Most (87%) records occurred between 400 and 900 m depths; some were <300 m (46–248 m) and >900 m (965–2195 m). Museum records confirmed geographic and bathymetric ranges of these corals and suggested areas for further exploration. Problems encountered in the museum data were varied but generally minor. Museum collections are useful for investigating DSC distributions; however, these data require more scrutiny than they usually receive. Visits to museums and/or interaction with museum staff are recommended to improve museum data utility.

Factors influencing product customisation

Advances in technologies are increasingly changing how consumers and firms interact. A growing type of interaction is product customisation. This paper examines factors influencing customisation. Factors investigated were the number of attributes, the presence of default values, and participants' experience with the product, the internet, and the remote shopping experiences via the internet and mail order catalogues. Also investigated were differences between gender and the amount of education of the consumer. A web-based program created specifically for this investigation empirically investigates factors simulating an experience customising products. The results identify factors influencing the customisation process. Discussed are implications and future directions for managers and researchers.

The John von Neumann Digital Library (www.neumann-haz.hu)

The minister of culture established the John von Neumann Digital Library in November 1997. Our main library service, WebKat.hu, which is an online internet catalogue, has been provided since autumn 1999. The online service of the Digital Literary Academy started on the Internet in June 2000. Between March 1998 and October 2003 more than 12 million users accessed the site and services of the Neumann Library via the Internet.

Book Review: High-Level Subject Access: Tools and Techniques in Internet Cataloging

Book Review: High-Level Subject Access: Tools and Techniques in Internet Cataloging

Infinite Archives

Jacques Derrida's 1995 Mal d'archive is an essay with multiple resonances. One can speculate that after nearly a decade and a half of a trend that saw the development in French historical circles of critical thought and writing on the notions of memory and archive, represented most notably and emblematically by Pierre Nora's massive project, Lieux de mémoire, originally published in seven volumes between 1984 and 1992, a certain fetishism of the archive needed to be analyzed. Deconstruction had supposedly shut the door on an old style philology as a viable manner for getting at the truth in its origins, but now another strategy seemed to have reared its head, suggesting that the truth of history could be found in documents, symbols, and objects, many of which were circumscribed in collections, repositories of knowledge about deep-seated belief systems. The Éditions Gallimard internet catalogue describes the project of Lieux de mémoire as follows: Today the rapid disappearance of our national memory cries out for an inventory of the places where it was selectively incarnated: celebrations, emblems, monuments, and commemorations, but also speeches, archives, dictionaries, and museums. . . . More than an impossible exhaustiveness, what counts here are the types of subjects chosen, how they are exploited, the richness and variety of approaches, and, finally, the broad equilibrium of a vast corpus on which more than a hundred of the most qualified historians have agreed to collaborate. France as a subject is inexhaustible. Taken together, [this is] a history of France, not in the habitual sense of the term, but—between memory and history—the selective and scholarly exploration of our collective legacy. (My translation here and elsewhere unless otherwise noted.) The expression "héritage collectif," used in Gallimard's marketing blurb and rendered here as "collective legacy," might just as easily be translated "inherited collections," that is, inherited archives. The trope of lost memory becomes a lieu commun: if one's history cannot be remembered, the only recourse is to be immersed in the invigorating reservoir of accumulated texts and objects. Although a teleological historical narrative of progress is no longer available, remnants and vestiges can rejuvenate the frustrated historian, or so it would seem. The Lieux de mémoire project can be analyzed as a re-inscription of the discipline [End Page 148] of history in a postmodern, poststructuralist phase, at a moment when all possibility of narrative closure seems remote indeed ("France as a subject is inexhaustible," that is, infinite, without end.). Mal d'archive might well find one of its sources of inspiration in an attempt to analyze critically this fetishism of collecting, which results from something like a moment of crisis. Although he makes no reference to Nora and the Lieux de mémoire project, Derrida nonetheless wonders about the fear of loss motivating projects like the one Nora imagined, as well as all the emulations to which Nora's work gave rise (one is tempted to characterize the historical and critical endeavors spawned by Lieux de mémoire as a veritable cottage industry). Why had the question of the archive come to the fore? In fact, Derrida had already taken a decidedly less euphoric view of how the past comes back when he lectured and wrote about the specters of Marx only shortly before he gave his lecture on the Freud archive. Far from constituting a source from which one might recover a certain plenitude of memory, the vestiges of the past return to haunt the present—both as reminders of the past and as announcements of the future. Mal d'archive, originally an occasional piece that grew out of reflections on the notion of the archive in the history of Freud's foundational work in psychoanalysis and thus out of Derrida's earlier analysis of the scene of writing in Freud ("Freud et la scène de l'écriture"), also finds the motivation for its argument in the damage done to archives by political repression and in the counter attempts to get at what...

An Essay on Our Interviews, and a Call for Participation

ABSTRACT This essay discusses goals for the Journal of Internet Cataloging column “Profiles in Digital Information” and interviewing as a methodology, reviews interviews appearing in the column from 2000 through 2002, and calls for participation.

Editing Library Science Journals

The Editor of Classification & Cataloging Quarterly, the Journal of Internet Cataloging, and co-editor of Journal of Archival Organization describes changes and continuities in editing library sciencejour-nals over nearly two decades. Topics covered include the international aspects; editorial processes from methods of submission to review and acceptance; subject content; and the impact of the Internet and digital technology on journals, especially the editor's role. Over time editors will continue to play critical roles in the transmission and preservation of knowledge.

Organizing Information Content and Vocabularies

ABSTRACT In this interview for the Journal of Internet Cataloging Joseph Busch, the President of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), discusses his education and professional interests including indexing, classification research, and information retrieval. His career interests span talking books, the organization of information, and vocabulary control with a recent focus on the Internet-driven information culture.

EAD and Government Archives

SUMMARY Ai the beginning of 19% the means of reference to the Public Record Office's 150km of records dating back to the I I th century were, as far as the user was concerned, all on paper and mainly available on a single site. This article traces the development since then of the Public Record Office's hierarchical Internet catalogue (PROCAT) and in particular the role that EAD has had in this process. Two major EAD projects are described with particular emphasis on how the developing EAD standard was utilized in the context of a large national archive. Aspects of EAD relating to data exchange, data preparation, standardization and publication are all discussed as are its relationship to emergent XML technologies. Finally a role for EAD within PROCAT is described even though it is in essence a traditional relational database.

Internet resource cataloging: the SUNY Buffalo Libraries’ response

Conveys the author’s belief that the cataloging profession is uniquely suited to organize the wealth of information available on the World Wide Web. Focuses on the organization at which the author has worked for seven years (Central Technical Services, University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo), where she has capitalized on various OCLC‐inspired opportunities to explore Internet cataloging (i.e. InterCAT and CORC). A list of various procedures that this organization initiated to respond to and embrace Web resources is provided. Tries to impress upon the reader the importance of catalogers’ and bibliographers’ organizational skills when coupled with the progressive attitudes of library directors and staff. Key to ensuring the future success of bricks and mortar libraries and their employees is a committed response to patrons’ needs and the support of World Wide Web resources in the library catalog. Libraries must respond to the twenty‐first century paradigm shift in research methods.

Print and Internet catalog shopping: assessing attitudes and intentions

The use of print catalogs for direct marketing has a long history of success. Today, telecommunication networks, such as the Internet, offer the potential to reach a larger market through the use of online catalogs that could be dynamic, flexible, and consumer‐responsive. This paper reports the results of an empirical study that compared individuals’ attitudes and intentions to shop using print and Internet catalogs. The findings suggest that individuals perceived differences between the two catalog media on the shopping factors of reliability, tangibility, and consumer risk. Further, product value, pre‐order information, post‐selection information, shopping experience, and consumer risk emerged as the factors that influenced attitudes and intentions to shop using print and Internet catalogs.

Intentions to Shop Using Internet Catalogues: Exploring the Effects of Product Types, Shopping Orientations, and Attitudes towards Computers

The Internet is emerging as a powerful communications medium and distribution channel for catalogue retailers. Estimates of Internet catalogue sales continue to climb as increasing number of consumers embrace the concept of online shopping. In this paper, we present the results of a study intended to examine intentions to shop using Internet catalogues by product types, shopping orientations, and attitudes toward computers. Our results show that intentions are different for music CDs/cassettes and clothing. The findings also indicate that in-home and mall-shopping orientations, and attitudes towards computers are strong discriminators between low- and high-intentions to shop through Internet catalogues. Based on the findings, we discuss possible implications for online catalogue retailers.

Representation and Organization of Information in the Web Space: From MARC to XML

Introduction The notion of information representation and organization traditionally means creating catalogs and indexes for publications of any kind. It includes the description of the attributes of a document and the representation of its intellectual content. Libraries in the world have a long history in recording data about documents and publications; such practice can be dated back to several thousand years ago. Indexes and library catalogs are created to help users find and locate a document conveniently. Records in the information searching tools not only serve as an inventory of human knowledge and culture but also provide orderly access to the collections. Just like every other business and industry, the representation and organization of information in the network era has gone through dramatic changes in almost every stage of this process. The changes include not only the methods and technology used to create records for publications, but also the standards that are central to the success and effectiveness of these tools in searching and retrieving information. Today the library catalog is no longer a tool for its own collection for the library visitors; it has become a network node that users can visit from anywhere in the world via a computer connected to the Internet. The concept of indexing databases is no longer just for newspapers and journal articles; it has expanded into the Web information space that is being used for e-publishing, e-businesses, and e-commerce. The heart of such a universal information space lies in the standards that make it possible for different types of data to be communicated and understood by heterogeneous platforms and systems. We all know that TCP/IP allows different computer systems to talk to each other and to understand different dialects of networking language; in the world of organizing information content, the content is represented by terms either in natural or controlled language or both. The characteristics of its container (book, journal, film, memo, report, etc.) will be encoded in certain format for computer storage and retrieval. Libraries in the world have used MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC) (Library of Congress, 1999) to encode information about their collections. In conjunction with cataloging rules, such MARC format standardized the record structure that describes information containers, i.e., books, manuscripts, maps, periodicals, motion pictures, music scores, audio/video recordings, 2-D and 3-D artifacts, and microforms. The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) in Dublin, Ohio is the largest and the busiest cataloging service in the world. Almost 33,000 libraries from 67 countries now use OCLC products and services and more than 8,650 of them are OCLC members. As e-publishing thrives and Web information space grows, libraries have expanded conventional cataloging of their collections into organizing the information on the Web. In the early 1990s, OCLC started the Internet cataloging project, in which librarians from all types of libraries volunteered to contribute MARC records they created for Gopher servers, listserves, ftp and Web sites, and other networked information resources (OCLC, 1996). Another major undertaking in organizing information on the Web is OCLC's Metadata Initiative (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, 1999) inaugurated in 1995, which proposed a metadata scheme containing 15 data elements. Among them are title, creator, publisher, subject, description, format, type, source, relation, identifier, and rights. The metadata scheme was named after the city where OCLC is located: Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (Dublin Core for short). Since its debut, it has become an important part of the emerging infrastructure of the Internet. Many communities are eager to adopt a common core of semantics for resource description, and the Dublin Core has attracted broad ranging international and interdisciplinary support for this purpose. …