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MARC and metadata - METS, MODS, and MARCXML
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 199.00This paper describes the MARCXML architecture implemented at the Library of Congress. It gives an overview of the component pieces of the architecture, including the MARCXML schema and the MARCXML toolkit, while giving a brief tutorial on their use. Several different applications of the architecture and tools are discussed to illustrate the features... more...
An Information Revolution for Small Enterprise in Africa
ILO Publications 2002; US$ 5.00Details the work undertaken by the ILOs InFocus Programme on Boosting Employment through Small Enterprise Development (SEED) to collaborate with the commercial radio media to enhance information provision, communication and respresentation for micro and small enterprises in Africa. more...
IFLA Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displays
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 70.00Existing Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) demonstrate differences in the range and complexity of their functional features, terminology, and help facilities. While many libraries already have OPACs, there is a need to bring together, in the form of guidelines or recommendations, a corpus of good practice to assist libraries in designing or re-designing... more...
UNIMARC & Friends: Charting the New Landscape of Library Standards
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 119.00With the expansion of the World Wide Web during the last decade, libraries and their standards face an ever-complex environment, with new types, genres and forms of information resources. Changing information network structures and the emergence of new retrieval methods all play their roles. A three day conference was held in Lisbon, Portugal in March... more...
UNIMARC Manual
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 147.00The UNIMARC Authorities Format was designed in the early 1990s to allow the creation of authority and reference records for the management of controlled access points in a bibliographic database. Incorporated in this work is relevant information from other IFLA working groups and from UNIMARC users. It is published under the auspices of the IFLA Cataloguing... more...
MARC Manual
ABC-CLIO 1998; US$ 73.00If you are in the process-beginning, middle, or end-of automating your catalog, you will welcome the wealth of information in this concise, easy-to-use handbook. Created for librarians new to MARC and for those accustomed to using MARC data, it explains all three types of MARC records, and it gives considerations and specifications for MARC database... more...
Richtlinien für die OPAC-Anzeige
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 70.00The purpose of the Guidelines for OPAC Displays is to assist libraries and similar institutions in designing the displays of their OPACs, taking into consideration the needs of users. This German translation of the guidelines is directed at librarians charged with customizing OPAC software and at producers and vendors of this software. The guidelines... more...
Towards A European Forest Information System
BRILL 2007; US$ 121.00The report gives an insight into the potential architecture of a European Forest Information System, its system components and potential applications. A demonstration version was built and tested with various data types. Options are presented on how an operational forest information system could run within a network of distributed datasets. more...
Preparing Data for Sharing
Amsterdam University Press 2010; US$ 14.95This Data Guide is aimed at those engaged in the cycle of social science research, from applying for a research grant, through the data collection phase, and ultimately to preparation of the data for deposit in the DANS data archive, or any other data repository. This publication is an adaption of the 4th edition of the Guide to social science data... more...
Data Integration
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2010; US$ 40.00This book is an introduction to the problem of data integration and a rigorous account of one of the leading approaches to solving this problem, viz., the relational logic approach. Relational logic provides a theoretical framework for discussing data integration. Moreover, in many important cases, it provides algorithms for solving the problem in... more...









