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Unit 5: Description
Topic Areas: The unit explores the basic
descriptive metadata elements that
are used to create records for
information resources. Includes descriptive
elements, IFLA LRM, RDA,
and Dublin Core.
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.
- 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?
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Required Readings
Week 1
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Joudrey
& Taylor, The
Organization of Information,
Chapter 7, p. 291-310
IFLA,
Library Reference Model
Society of American Archivists, DACS Primer 1: What is Archival Description? [video]
DACS excerpt including "Principles" (2013) [in Moodle]
SAA, Describing Archives: A Content Standard. "Principles" [current version]
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Week 2
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Joudrey
& Taylor, The
Organization of Information,
Chapter 7, p. 310-358
Meissner, Arranging and Describing
Archives and Manuscripts,
Chapters 2 & 3 and
examples
Miller, Metadata for Digital
Collections, Chapter 3, "Dublin Core Metadata"
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
Zumer, "IFLA Library Reference Model (IFLA LRM)— Harmonisation of the FRBR Family"
IFLA, Statement of International Cataloguing Principles
Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee, Cataloguing Code of Ethics
Week 2
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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Week 1
Joudrey,
Introduction to Cataloging
& Classification, 11th
edition, Chapter 3 (pp. 51-101),
Chapters 4-6, & 9, and Chapter
22 (pp. 848-862)
Week 2
Joudrey, Introduction to Cataloging
& Classification, 11th
edition, Chapters 4-6, & 9, and Chapter
22 (pp. 848-862)
Miller,
Metadata for Digital
Collections, Chapter 2 |
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Course Outline
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- Unit 1:
Introduction to Information
Organization
- Unit 2:
Environments and their Tools
- Unit 3:
Introduction to Metadata
- Unit 4:
Encoding
- Unit 5:
Description
- Unit 6:
Access & Authority Control
- Unit 7:
Aboutness & Subject Analysis
- Unit 8:
Vocabulary Control
- Unit 9:
Categorization, Classification,
& Arrangement
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