Subject: DLF Report: "Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files."
NINCH-ANNOUNCE (david@ninch.org)
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:06:40 -0400
Message-Id: <v04210101b52503668da4@[192.100.21.22]> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:06:40 -0400 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> Subject: DLF Report: "Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files."
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
April 20, 2000
Council on Library & Information Resources Releases
Digital Library Federation Report:
"Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries:
Beyond Traditional Authority Files," by Gail Hodge
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub91/pub91.pdf
For immediate release
Contact: Dan Greenstein
April 18, 2000
202-939-4762
Report Explores Use of Knowledge Organization Systems in Digital Libraries
Washington, D.C.- A new report from the Digital Library Federation
(DLF) examines the use of knowledge organization systems-schemes for
organizing information and facilitating knowledge management-in a
digital environment. Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital
Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files, by Gail Hodge, is the
DLF's fourth published report.
Knowledge organization systems serve as bridges between a user's
information needs and the material in a collection. Examples of such
systems include term lists, such as dictionaries; classification
schemes, such as Library of Congress Subject Headings; and
relationship lists, such as thesauri. These and other types of
knowledge organization systems, which vary in complexity, structure,
and function, can improve the organization of digital libraries and
facilitate access to their content.
The report provides examples of how knowledge organization systems
can be used to enhance digital libraries in a variety of disciplines.
For example, they can be used to link a digital resource to related
material. They can be used directly or indirectly to provide more
descriptive records for entities in the digital resource. Finally,
they can provide access not only to a descriptive record, but also to
location information about a relevant physical object.
The author also discusses how knowledge organization systems can be
used to provide disparate communities with access to digital library
resources. They can provide alternate subject or multilingual access,
support free-text searching, or add a new mode of access-such as
visual or geographic-to the digital library.
The report concludes with a discussion of what to consider when using
knowledge organization systems with digital libraries. It provides a
framework for the design, planning, implementation, and maintenance
of these systems in digital library environments.
Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries is available
electronically at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports. Print copies may
be ordered for $15, prepaid, from the Council on Library and
Information Resources (CLIR). Checks should be made payable to CLIR
and mailed to CLIR Publication Orders, 1755 Massachusetts Avenue, NW,
Suite 500, Washington, D.C., 20036-2124. Credit card orders may be
placed by calling CLIR at 202-939-4750, sending a fax to
202-939-4765, or sending e-mail to mailto:info@clir.org.
The Digital Library Federation is a partnership of research libraries
dedicated to creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a
distributed collection of digital materials accessible to scholars
and to a wider public. It operates under the umbrella of CLIR, which
works in partnership with libraries, archives, and other information
providers to advocate collaborative approaches to preserving the
nation's intellectual heritage and strengthening the many components
of its information system.
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