LIS 415: Information Organization

Contact Information

Instructor: Daniel N. Joudrey
E-mail: joudrey@simmons.edu
Office: P-205B
Phone: (617) 521-2863
Unit 5: Description

The unit explores standards for creating metadata records that serve as short surrogates for information resources in retrieval systems.

Topics: ISBD, AACR2, FRBR, RDA, Dublin Core, DACS, etc.

  • What is a bibliographic/surrogate/metadata record?
  • How are bibliographic/surrogate/metadata records created?
  • How does description affect collocation?
  • How does the environment affect the way the bibliographic/surrogate/metadata record is created?
  • What purpose does metadata serve in Web pages?

Required Readings

Taylor, The Organization of Information, Chapter 7

Smiraglia, "Introducing Metadata"

Tillett, "What is FRBR?" http://www.loc.gov/cds/FRBR.html

Coyle and Hillman, "Resource Description and Access (RDA) Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century" http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january07/coyle/01coyle.html

Chapman, "RDA: A Cataloguing Code for the 21st Century" http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2008/september/rdachapman.htm

Gorman, "RDA: Imminent Debacle" http://al.ala.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14

SAA, Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS), pp. v-xxi

Needed for your assignments

"ISBD(M): International Standard Bibliographic Description" http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/isbd_m0602.pdf

(NOTE: Two versions are in Vista. Bring the smaller version with you to class.)

"Dublin Core Metadata Initiative" http://dublincore.org/

Make sure to look at the element set.

Recommended Readings

Articles

LeBoeuf, "FRBR"

Huthwaite, "AACR2 and Other Metadata Standards"

Tillett, "Problems and Solutions in Cataloging Electronic Resources"

Tillett, "FRBR and Cataloging for the Future"

Guenther, "MODS ..."

Guenther, "Using MODS ..."

Wool, "A Meditation on Metadata"

Baca, "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words."

Gorman, "Cataloguing in an Electronic Age"

Vellucci, "Options for Organizing Electronic Resources..."

Recommended Readings

Web Sites

Heery and Patel, "Application Profiles." http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/app-profiles/intro.html

Lagoze, "Keeping Dublin Core Simple" http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january01/lagoze/01lagoze.html

Fox and Wilkerson, "Archival Description," "Standards," and "Descriptive Standards for Finding Aids" (old, doesn't address DACS). http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/introarchives/index.html

"VRA Core 4.0 " -- http://www.vraweb.org/projects/vracore4/index.html

Baca, "Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images" http://vraweb.org/ccoweb/cco/index.html

"ONIX for Books." http://www.editeur.org/onix.html

"About the PCC." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/2001pcc.html

"Geospatial Metadata." http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/

Library of Congress, "Dublin Core to MARC Crosswalk." http://www.loc.gov/marc/dccross.html

Recommended Readings

Books

Taylor, Understanding FRBR

Lazinger, Digital Preservation and Metadata, Chapter 6 (pp. 139-188)

Hsieh-Yee, Organizing Audiovisual and Electronic Resources for Access

Thorne, Introduction to Object ID

Vocabulary
  • AACR2
  • Archival description
  • Bibliographic data
  • Chief source of information
  • CIP
  • Continuing resource
  • Creator
  • Crosswalks
  • DACS
  • Description
  • Descriptive cataloging
  • Descriptive data
  • Dublin Core
  • EAD header
  • Edition
  • Expression
  • FGDC metadata standard
  • GILS record
  • GMD
  • Integrating resource
  • ISBD
  • ISBN
  • Item
  • LCRIs
  • Manifestation
  • Monograph
  • Museum accession record
  • PCC
  • Publisher
  • RDA
  • Serial
  • Series
  • TEI header
  • VRA Core Categories
  • Work

Course Outline
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Updated June 16, 2008.