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Unit 5: Description and Access
Topic Areas: The unit explores conceptual models to describe the universe of information, various principles for description and access, and the basic
descriptive metadata elements that
are used to create records for
information resources. Includes descriptive
elements, IFLA LRM, RDA,
and Dublin Core. It also describes the process of
choosing access points for works
and expressions.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain why we describe resources.
- Articulate the basics of the IFLA LRM model and discuss their consequences for resource description.
- Identify metadata concerns that are common across different information communities.
- Identify common attributes for description.
- Explain the role of access points in making surrogate records available to users.
- Use RDA to choose access points for works.
- Create a Dublin Core descriptive record according to best practices.
- Connect the efficient and appropriate description of resources with the effect this has on a user's ability to find, identify, select, obtain, and explore a collection.
- Navigate within the RDA Toolkit.
- Find and apply rules contained in RDA.
- Describe ISBD and how the elements of ISBD appear in a catalog record.
Guiding Questions:
- Why do we describe resources?
- What is IFLA
LRM?
- What metadata concerns are
common across communities?
- What attributes are common?
- What is a
bibliographic/surrogate/metadata
record?
- How are surrogate records made
available to users via access
points?
- How do access points affect
collocation?
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Required Readings
Week 1: Conceptual Models and Principles
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Joudrey, The
Organization of Information,
Chapter 7 & Chapter 8 (p. 269-277)
IFLA,
Library Reference Model
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Week 2: Description and Access |
Joudrey, The
Organization of Information,
Chapter 8
Meissner, Arranging and Describing
Archives and Manuscripts,
Chapters 2 & 3 and
examples
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Week 3: Standards
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Joudrey, The
Organization of Information,
Chapter 9
Explore:
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Relevant Articles from The
Encyclopedia of Library and
Information Science
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Duff and Thibodeau,
"International Standards for
Archival Description"
Escolano Rodriguez,
"Descriptive Cataloging
Principles"
Evans, McKemmish,
and Reed, "Archival Arrangement
and Description"
Krummel,
"Bibliography"
O'Keefe and Oldal,
"Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO)
Vanhoutte and Van
den Branden, "Text Encoding
Initiative (TEI)"
Weibel, "Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative (DCMI): A
Personal History"
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Recommended Readings
Articles and Web Resources
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Week 1
IFLA, Statement of International Cataloguing Principles
Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee, Cataloguing Code of Ethics
Week 2
Society of American Archivists, DACS Primer 1: What is Archival Description? [video]
Wilson,
"The Catalog as Access Mechanism:
Background and Concepts"
Week 3
Baca,
Cataloguing Cultural Objects:
A Guide to Describing Cultural
Works and Their Images
Categories for
the Description of Works of Art
(CDWA)
Guenther,
"MODS:The Metadata Object Description Schema"
Guenther,
"Using MODS"
ISBD: International Standard
Bibliographic Description
ONIX
for Books
Text Encoding
Initiative
Visual
Resource Association,"VRA
Core 4.0"
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Recommended Readings
Books at Beatley
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Joudrey, Introduction to Cataloging
& Classification,
Miller,
Metadata for Digital
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Course Outline
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- Unit 1:
Introduction to Information
Organization
- Unit 2:
Retrieval Tools and Systems
- Unit 3:
Encoding
- Unit 4:
Introduction to Metadata
- Unit 5:
Conceptual Models, Description, and Access
- Unit 6:
Authority Control
- Unit 7:
Aboutness & Subject Analysis
- Unit 8:
Vocabulary Control
- Unit 9:
Classification & Arrangement
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