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Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
Volume 33, no. 3-4, 2002
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WORKS
AS ENTITIES FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Richard
P. Smiraglia, editor
Further Reflections on The Nature of A Work: Introduction
The
purpose of this volume is to extend our understanding of the work entity and its
role in information retrieval. Basic definitions are reviewed to provide a
summary of current thought about works, their role in the catalog, and the
potential for better accommodating them in future information retrieval
environments. A discussion of entities for information retrieval and works as
entities follows. Research in knowledge organization is summarized, indicating
ways in which ontology, epistemology, and semiotics have lately been used as
looking glasses through which to view the social informational roles of works.
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Articles
Transforming
Catalog Displays: Record Clustering for Works of Fiction
by
Allyson Carlyle and Joel Summerlin
Abstract:
Displays grouping retrieved bibliographic record sets into categories or
clusters may communicate search results more quickly and effectively to users
than current catalog displays providing long alphabetical lists of records.
Bibliographic records associated with three large fiction works are analyzed to
discover the presence of relationship-type indicators. Preliminary results show
that 94% of the records in this study contained indicators of cluster type that
would allow them to be correctly identified automatically. However, the clusters
formed by the relationship types used here are of unequal size. Because of this,
it is suggested that alternative strategies be investigated for their potential
to create more useful clustered displays.
Modeling
Videos as Works
by
James Turner and Abby Goodrum
Abstract:
Defining works is complex, but defining video works is extremely complex because
of the large number of instantiations available and because of the intricate
relationships among them. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on
September 11, 2001 and other important news events offer rich examples of the
complexity of the problem and help us gain an understanding of how managing
video news material can be modelled. The need for a taxonomy of some of the
instantiations of material that need to be managed in the context of a news
video library is identified.
The
Bibliographic Record as Text
by
Jack Andersen
Abstract:
Conceptualizing the bibliographic record as text implies that it needs to be
treated as such in order to fully exploit its function in information retrieval
activities, which affects how access to works can be achieved. A theoretical
framework is outlined, including methodological consequences in terms of how to
go about teaching students of knowledge organization and users of information
retrieval systems the literate activity of using the bibliographic record as a
text. For knowledge organization research this implies that providing access to
texts and the works they embody is not a technical matter, but rather a literate
issue. KEYWORDS: Bibliographic record, Paratext, Information retrieval,
Knowledge organization.
Introduction
To A Semiotic Of Scientific Meaning, And Its Implications For Access To
Scientific Works On The Web
by
Francis Morrissey
Abstract:
Formal scientific communication is constituted by the documentation and
dissemination of concepts through scientific works of accepted genre. Using
analysis based on Pierce's ten semiotic triads and Eco's connotative semiotics,
a scientific work can be identified as a trivalent compound connotative
semiotic. It is concluded that a subject approach to document identification and
retrieval may be based on document metadata, subject indexing, documentary
surrogates, document full-text, the faceted indexes of XML Topic Maps, the
graphics of Kohonen Self Organized Maps, and citation histories presented as
mappings of co-citation clusters. Any and all of these approaches may relate to
any or all of the three classes of knowledge content outlined above as being
characteristic of a scientific work. Numerical analysis by neural networks of
any of these characteristics of a document could lead to production of a
"fingerprint" identifying the document and specifying its knowledge
content.
Lucy
is Enceinte: The Power of an Action in Defining a Work
by
Andrea Leigh
Abstract:
Although performed works are defined based on their collaborative nature and
rules for mixed responsibility in AACR2R, descriptive practices are vague when
applied to the cataloging of a television series-a type of performed work. Is
the umbrella title identical as the title expressed in a bibliographic series?
Or is it the collective title of the work and each episode a part? A key factor
in this decision is in understanding how performed works are distinct from
textual works. By highlighting the seminal television situation comedy I Love
Lucy as an example, it is argued that a textual approach provides an incomplete
methodology for the retrieval of the component parts of a television series.
Descriptive areas in AACR2R are explored, particularly issues related to
seriality, whole-part relationships, and the use of work identifiers in the
collocation of episodes.
Scientific
Models as Works
by
Anita S. Coleman
Abstract:
This paper is about important artifacts of scientific research, namely models. I
propose that the representations of scientific models be treated as works.
Bibliographic families of models may better reflect disciplinary intellectual
structures and relationships, thereby providing information retrieval that is
reflective of human information seeking and use purposes such as teaching and
learning. Two examples of scientific models are presented using the Dublin Core
metadata elements.
Works
and digital resources in the catalog : electronic versions of Book of Urizen,
The Kelmscott Chaucer and Robinson Crusoe
by
Ann Copeland
Abstract:
The author addresses issues regarding the cataloging of digital manifestations
of works. The problem of how to catalog digitized rare books and electronic
texts to facilitate access to works while distinguishing editions is discussed.
Using digital versions of Blake's Book of Urizen, The Kelmscott Chaucer and
Robinson Crusoe as examples, the article focuses on the way current cataloging
aids or hinders access to works. Specific problems include: the non-uniform use
of uniform titles; varying application of the Library of Congress Rule
Interpretation (1.11A) concerning electronic reproductions; the lack of analysis
at the work level in digital projects.
Cartographic
Materials as Works
by
Scott
McEathron
Abstract:
The methods cartographers and publishers have used to compile and distribute
maps in the past are central to historians of cartography in their thinking and
documentation of them as works. This
article presents case studies that describe the nature and characteristics of
three works wherein the primary manifestations are cartographic.
The cases are mapped into an entity-relationship model and include
Ptolemy's Geographia, Martini's Novus Atlas Sinensis and Bailey's Ecoregions of
the United States. Consideration is
made of the implications of using cartographic works as entities for information
retrieval.
Composite
Multimedia Works On CD: Catalogue Entry According To ISBD (ER) And AACR-2
Revision 1998
by
K. S.
Raghavan and A. Neelameghan
Abstract:
Gives operational definitions of work, associated work, composite work and other
selected terms. Mentions the challenges posed by the abundant availability of
digital resources in different media, forms and formats to catalogers in
particular and information professionals in general. Discusses with examples the
applicability and adequacy of the rules and prescriptions of ISBD(ER) and AACR2,
1998 rev. for cataloging multimedia resources on CD, in view of the fact that
the record medium, the physical
form and format affect the effectiveness of accessing, retrieval and use of a
work.
Providing
Access to Collected Works
by Kizer Walker and Barbara Kwasnik
Abstract:
How are the boundaries of information objects to be defined in the networked
electronic environment and what is the role of our retrieval systems in
providing access where these boundaries are uncertain? The authors consider
these questions in light of longstanding problems surrounding the definition of
the "work" in the print environment. In particular, they examine the
role of the index in providing access to the collected works of the individual
writer. They review the discussion in the indexing literature of the "long
index," and the close relationship between the functions of indexer and
editor in collected works projects. And they treat the role of the index in
constituting as a self-contained corpus the disparate types of text that make up
a writer's lifetime output. Finally, by way of example, the authors turn to the
extensive indexes to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic writings.
"Bridget's
Revelationes, Ockham's Tractatus, and Doctrines an
by Richard P. Smiraglia
Abstract:
Random samples of works were drawn from the catalogs of the Bobst Library, New
York University, and the Burke Library, Union Theological Seminary, New York.
Results indicated: 1) derivative bibliographic relationships existed for
somewhere between one-half and two-thirds of theological works; 2) there was a
positive correlation between the age of the progenitor work and the extent of
derivation; and, 3) forms and genres were useful in a limited way for predicting
the incidence of derivative relationships in theological literature. Qualitative
analysis reveals the important aspects of the genres "revelation" and
"scripture" among theological works.