tailieunhanh - Ebook The Organization of information: Part 2

Following the contents section 1 book "The Organization of information", section 2 presents the following contents: Metadata - Description, metadata - Access and authority control, subject analysis, systems for vocabulary control, systems for categorization. Invite your reference | CHAPTER 7 METADATA DESCRIPTION IT oosrly speaking there arc three parts to creating metadata IL for an Information resource 1 providing a description ol the information resource along with other information necessary for management preservation and structure of the resource 2 providing for a cess to this description and 3 encoding . providing the syntax of the metadata . Chapter 4 gives a general introduction to providing metadata and encoding is discussed in Chapter 5. This chapter discusses metadata description and Chapters H. 9. 10. and II discuss various types of access to metadata and how such access may be provided. In libraries bMingmfddr rniirdis the name that has been applied to the description of tangible information resources eg. books sound recordings etc. for many years. Even though it has been applied Io records created fot motion pictures sound recordings computer files and the like the word hibhtfgraphu has continued to have a stigma arising from bihito- meaning book. At limes the term jurnigu f word has been used instead. A surrogate stands in place of someone or something else. The term can be used for a record representing any kind of information resource tn any kind of information retrieval system. In this and following chapters Mirrih ỊỊatr word is used IO mean the description and access content of a metadata record. Some definitions arc in order before discussing the creation of surrogate records. A surnrffitf word is a presentation of the characteristics of an information resource. The characteristics include Ixith descriptive data and access points. The record stands in place of . is a surrogate for the information resource in information retrieval systems such as catalogs indexes bibliographies and search engines. An rnỊormatnm rrsourrr is an 199 Số hóa bởi Trung tâm Học liệu ĐHTN http 200 ỉ 7 Metadata Dnmption instance of recorded information . a book article vidcocassette. onliDr video tel of Web pages. sound .