This research was carried out in order to gather information on the current situation and practices of libraries in Kuwait so as to investigate the possibly of designing a model for establishment of a national bibliographic network in the State of Kuwait. As context for the research, background is provided on national bibliographic networks in developed countries and in the Arab World, together with consideration of the role of a national library in such a network. In order to gather data, three questionnaire surveys (for library administrators, cataloguers and automation specialists) were distributed to all types of libraries in Kuwait. Information was sought on the composition and training of staff, the nature and extent of library resources and databases, the degree of automation of systems and services, and the nature of co-operation and resource sharing. Opinions were also sought on the feasibility of establishing centralised cataloguing and the implementation of a national bibliographic network. Follow-up interviews were also carried out, and professionals in both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were consulted for advice on practical solutions and recommendations for an effective national bibliographic network. The findings of the questionnaire surveys indicated some deficiencies that Kuwait libraries face: the absence of a leadership role by the national library; lack of a deposit law for national publications that would ensure a collection that would provide central focal point for a national information infrastructure; coverage by the national bibliography is neither comprehensive nor adequate; there are no formal systems of co-operation for resource sharing; implementation of standards for bibliographic services has been ineffective; many libraries still lack automated systems; lack of professional staff was noted by all sectors. Nevertheless, respondents were positive in their concern for needing strong leadership, adequate financial support for the national library, and expressed a desire for co-operation, which was felt to be possible even under the current circumstances. Based on the findings of the survey and experience described in the literature, it is concluded that a national library is the most appropriate body to develop and maintain the bibliographic databases that would be the centre of national bibliographic network. A model for such a network is presented, discussing the links to different libraries in the country and the duties and responsibilities of the national and other libraries in attaining successful functioning of the network. Recommendations are made for the functioning of the proposed national bibliographic network.

Zur Zukunft der Katalogisierung werden zur Zeit zwei große Themenkomplexe diskutiert. Einmal der Aufbau einer Gemeinsamen Normdatei (GND) und die Einführung eines neuen Regelwerks, „Resource Description and Access (RDA)“. Das Regelwerk soll die bislang geltenden RAK ablösen und nicht nur für Bibliotheken, sondern auch für Archive und Museen zur Verfügung stehen. Da die verschiedenen Normdateien auf unterschiedlichen Datenmodellen und Formaten basieren, wird an einer Zusammenführung der Normdatenbanken in eine einheitliche Normdatei gearbeitet.

One common request at a library’s information desk is for a sequel of a book title or where to begin reading a roman-fleuve such as "Harry Potter". Experienced librarians might know the answers to the most famous titles, but there is not much evidence that they can retrieve such information from the library’s catalogue. This study investigates inter-work relationships in seven Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) and looks at the phenomenon with an empirical, exploratory approach. Based on previous empirical studies about cataloguing praxis, this study seeks to add up to those efforts by analysing catalogue records to determine the effects of past and current standards in cataloguing sequences of novels. Some records have such information coded in several fields. As a maximum, it appears six times, although it is uncommon to occur more than three times. On the other hand, as should be expected, the Machine-readable cataloguing (MARC) fields for the information about the position of a novel within the roman-fleuve match the cases where the title of the roman-fleuve is given. Cataloguing practices have evolved from paper format, which posed challenges in physical space, into machine-readable and relational databases. OPACs are still debuting in a new era with linked data. Swedish OPACs still do not deliver much information regarding roman-fleuve and its parts. The data shows, however, that a fair amount of records offer the possibility for conveying such information to the users if the OPACs look in the proper fields of the catalogue record.

This thesis investigates the inconsistencies in classification and indexing present in the University of the Arts Library catalogue, and examines how these relate to the perspectives of qualified librarians through the use of qualitative interviews. We surmise that effective representation of items relating to marginalised communities, within the language of classification and indexing, has a great impact on the findability of these items. Representation of marginalised groups within knowledge institutions proves to be ever more significant in aiding democracy, dialogue and equitable access to information; therefore, it is significant to scrutinise, critique and propose development of this representation.

Magister Library and Information Studies - MLIS / Although Resource Description and Access (RDA) has been discussed extensively amongst the ranks of cataloguers internationally, no research on the perceptions of South African cataloguers was available at the time of this research. The aim of this study was to determine how well RDA was faring during the study's timeframe, to give a detailed description regarding cataloguer perceptions within a higher education setting in South Africa. Furthermore, to determine whether the implementation of RDA has overcome most of the limitations that AACR2 had within a digital environment, to identify advantages and/or perceived limitations of RDA as well as to assist cataloguers to adopt and implement the new standard effectively. The study employed a qualitative research design assisted by a phenomenological philosophy to gain insight into how cataloguers experienced the implementation and adoption of RDA by means of two concurrent web-based questionnaires. The study concluded that higher education cataloguing professionals residing in the Western Cape were decidedly positive towards the new cataloguing standard. Although there were some initial reservations, they were overcome to such an extent that ultimately no real limitations were identified, and that RDA has indeed overcome most of the limitations displayed by AACR2. Many advantages of RDA were identified, and participants expressed excitement about the future capabilities of RDA as it continues toward a link-data milieu, making library metadata more easily available.

Magister Library and Information Studies - MLIS / Although Resource Description and Access (RDA) has been discussed extensively amongst the ranks of cataloguers internationally, no research on the perceptions of South African cataloguers was available at the time of this research. The aim of this study was to determine how well RDA was faring during the study's timeframe, to give a detailed description regarding cataloguer perceptions within a higher education setting in South Africa. Furthermore, to determine whether the implementation of RDA has overcome most of the limitations that AACR2 had within a digital environment, to identify advantages and/or perceived limitations of RDA as well as to assist cataloguers to adopt and implement the new standard effectively. The study employed a qualitative research design assisted by a phenomenological philosophy to gain insight into how cataloguers experienced the implementation and adoption of RDA by means of two concurrent web-based questionnaires. The study concluded that higher education cataloguing professionals residing in the Western Cape were decidedly positive towards the new cataloguing standard. Although there were some initial reservations, they were overcome to such an extent that ultimately no real limitations were identified, and that RDA has indeed overcome most of the limitations displayed by AACR2. Many advantages of RDA were identified, and participants expressed excitement about the future capabilities of RDA as it continues toward a link-data milieu, making library metadata more easily available. As this research has revealed a distinctly positive attitude from cataloguers' two main matters for future research remains, being: ? Why South African participants in this study voiced almost no perceived limitations to RDA as a cataloguing standard. Future research might be able to relay information regarding this trend, especially in the light that it was not a global phenomenon. ? A deeper look might have to be taken at how participants' experienced RDA training as this phenomenon might be closely linked to the reasons why the participants did not mention more limitations.

Orientador: Plácida Leopoldina Ventura Amorim da Costa Santos / Banca: Silvana Aparecida Barsotti Gregório Vidotti / Banca: Lídia Alvarenga / Resumo: A relevância tanto da Web quanto das bibliotecas digitais para os diversos ramos da ciência, tem impulsionado pesquisadores e comunidades científicas a buscar soluções de integração, intercâmbio e entendimento semântico sobre os conteúdos que nelas circulam. Verifica-se, no cenário atual, uma forte tendência para a disponibilização de conteúdos digitais e a falta de uso de padrões adequados para a representação e a descrição desses recursos em ambientes digitais, o que é apontado pela literatura como uma grande preocupação para a comunidade científica e focado neste trabalho enquanto problema da pesquisa. Nesse contexto, a proposição desta pesquisa é verificar na literatura científica a aplicabilidade e a funcionalidade das tecnologias e instrumentos disponíveis como padrões de representação e descrição de conteúdo e forma, no âmbito das bibliotecas digitais, com o objetivo de identificar e de caracterizar o uso e a aplicação do MarcOnt enquanto ferramenta para a construção de formas de representação da informação para bibliotecas digitais na atualidade, destacando-o como instrumento para descrição dos aspectos semânticos dos conteúdos digitais nestas ambiências. Como metodologia, o presente trabalho caracteriza-se por ser uma pesquisa de análise exploratória e descritiva do tema, com o qual é possível obter subsídios para um maior entendimento e compreensão mais detalhados do MarcOnt e as tecnologias que estão abarcadas no âmbito das bibliotecas digitais para a construção Web Semântica. Como resultado, procurou-se demonstrar a aplicação da ferramenta MarcOnt em um ambiente informacional específico, a Biblioteca Digital Semântica JeromeDL, para analisar nos fundamentos da Catalogação as formas de representação dos recursos informacionais. O que nos levou a definir categorias para análise futura do sistema em comparação com o padrão de metadados MARC21. / Abstract: The relevancy of not only the Web but also the digital libraries for the diverse branches of Science has stimulated researchers and scientific communities to search for integration solutions, interchange and semantic understanding about the contents that circulate in them. In the present scenary, a strong tendency is verified for the availability of digital contents and the lack of use of adequate patterns for the representation and description of those resources in digital environments, what is pointed by literature as a great concern for the scientific community and focused on this work as a problem of the research. In this context, the proposal of this research is to verify, in the scientific literature, the applicability and functionality of the technologies and instruments available as patterns of representation and description of content and form, in the ambit of digital libraries, with the objective of identifying and characterizing the use and the application of MarcOnt as a tool for the construction of forms of information representation for digital libraries at the present time, highlighting it as an instrument for describing the semantic aspects of the digital contents in these environments. As a methodology, the present work is characterized by being an exploratory and descriptive analysis of the subject, with which it is possible to obtain subsidies for a better and more detailed understanding and comprehension of MarcOnt and the technologies that are included in the ambit of digital libraries for the Semantic Web construction. As a result, it was attempted to demonstrate the application of the MarcOnt tool in a specific informational environment, the JeromeDL Semantic Digital Library, to analyze the fundamentals of Cataloguing the forms of representation of informational resources. That made us define the categories for the future analysis of the system comparing to the MARC21 metadata pattern. / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-12T20:29:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 123091.pdf: 3871596 bytes, checksum: 47df77cf341f8d1b097a12c37925b08d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the new guideline for cataloging developed to replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2) in order to improve information retrieval. Accordingly, the present research aimed to analyze how bibliographic records of theses and dissertations of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) on areas of literature and cinema will be affected with the RDA standards. To answer the questionings conducted in this study, it is outlined as specific objectives: develop bibliographic records of theses and dissertations at the UFSC RDA standard; compare the cataloging elements in AACR2 and RDA standards; analyze bibliographic records of theses and dissertations of UFSC in the fields of literature and cinema according to RDA standards; identify and propose consistent elements for the description of bibliographic records of theses and dissertations UFSC according to the RDA standard; analyze bibliographic records of theses and dissertations of UFSC, specifically with regard to the entities-relationships; and verify in the national and international literature practical implementation of the new code that enable to identify advantages and disadvantages of RDA. The research is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study, using the method of case study and, according to its purpose, it can be an applied research. The results of the study were analyzed from the user tasks perspective and pointed out that the bibliographic description presents significant changes in referring to the format, content and media of a resource. Based on the analysis of the records and the results obtained, it can be concluded that the cataloger needs to spend more attention, knowledge and time practicing, suggesting to this professional the need for continuing education. / O Resource Description and Access (RDA) é a nova diretriz para a catalogação desenvolvido para substituir o Código de Catalogação Anglo-Americano, segunda edição (AACR2) com a finalidade de melhorar a recuperação da informação. Nesse sentido, a presente pesquisa objetiva analisar como os registros bibliográficos de teses e dissertações da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) das áreas de literatura e cinema serão afetados com os padrões do código RDA. Para responder aos questionamentos realizados neste estudo delinearam-se como objetivos específicos: elaborar registros bibliográficos de teses e dissertações da UFSC no padrão RDA; comparar os elementos catalográficos nos padrões AACR2 e RDA; analisar os registros bibliográficos de teses e dissertações da UFSC nas áreas de literatura e cinema de acordo com os padrões do RDA; identificar e propor elementos consistentes para a descrição dos registros bibliográficos das teses e das dissertações da UFSC conforme o padrão RDA; analisar os registros bibliográficos das teses e das dissertações da UFSC, especificamente no que se refere às entidades-relacionamentos e verificar na literatura nacional e internacional implementações práticas do novo código que possibilitem identificar vantagens e desvantagens do RDA. A pesquisa caracteriza-se como qualitativa de caráter exploratório e descritivo, além disso se utiliza do método estudo de caso e de acordo com sua finalidade é uma pesquisa aplicada. Os resultados do estudo foram analisados sob a perspectiva das tarefas dos usuários e apontou que a descrição bibliográfica apresenta modificações significativas correspondentes ao formato, conteúdo e mídia de um recurso. Com base na análise dos registros e dos resultados obtidos, pode-se concluir que o catalogador precisa despender mais atenção, conhecimento e tempo na sua prática o que sugere a esse profissional a necessidade de educação continuada.

A presente dissertação teve por objetivo localizar e catalogar as obras do artista plástico Luiz Henrique Schwanke integrantes às seriações de Perfis presentes em acervos institucionais nacionais. No intuito de se obter mais informações foi realizado um levantamento da fortuna crítica relativo à este recorte. A partir do material pesquisado, foi feito um estudo acerca de tais obras que somam mais que cinco mil dentro de universo artístico o qual não se pode precisar a quantia exata de trabalhos. / The present study had the objective of locating and cataloguing the works of the artist Luiz Henrique Schwanke that are part of the Perfis series, present in national institutional collections. To obtain more information, a survey of the critical richness related to this focus has been made. From the researched material, a study was conducted about these works, that sum up to more than five thousand in an artistic universe whose exact number of pieces can´t be exactly precised.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-02-29Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:34:38Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 castro_ff_me_mar.pdf: 3711501 bytes, checksum: 438a18a04051b0d5fd396e4536f4b0a5 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A relevância tanto da Web quanto das bibliotecas digitais para os diversos ramos da ciência, tem impulsionado pesquisadores e comunidades científicas a buscar soluções de integração, intercâmbio e entendimento semântico sobre os conteúdos que nelas circulam. Verifica-se, no cenário atual, uma forte tendência para a disponibilização de conteúdos digitais e a falta de uso de padrões adequados para a representação e a descrição desses recursos em ambientes digitais, o que é apontado pela literatura como uma grande preocupação para a comunidade científica e focado neste trabalho enquanto problema da pesquisa. Nesse contexto, a proposição desta pesquisa é verificar na literatura científica a aplicabilidade e a funcionalidade das tecnologias e instrumentos disponíveis como padrões de representação e descrição de conteúdo e forma, no âmbito das bibliotecas digitais, com o objetivo de identificar e de caracterizar o uso e a aplicação do MarcOnt enquanto ferramenta para a construção de formas de representação da informação para bibliotecas digitais na atualidade, destacando-o como instrumento para descrição dos aspectos semânticos dos conteúdos digitais nestas ambiências. Como metodologia, o presente trabalho caracteriza-se por ser uma pesquisa de análise exploratória e descritiva do tema, com o qual é possível obter subsídios para um maior entendimento e compreensão mais detalhados do MarcOnt e as tecnologias que estão abarcadas no âmbito das bibliotecas digitais para a construção Web Semântica. Como resultado, procurou-se demonstrar a aplicação da ferramenta MarcOnt em um ambiente informacional específico, a Biblioteca Digital Semântica JeromeDL, para analisar nos fundamentos da Catalogação as formas de representação dos recursos informacionais. O que nos levou a definir categorias para análise futura do sistema em comparação com o padrão de metadados MARC21. / The relevancy of not only the Web but also the digital libraries for the diverse branches of Science has stimulated researchers and scientific communities to search for integration solutions, interchange and semantic understanding about the contents that circulate in them. In the present scenary, a strong tendency is verified for the availability of digital contents and the lack of use of adequate patterns for the representation and description of those resources in digital environments, what is pointed by literature as a great concern for the scientific community and focused on this work as a problem of the research. In this context, the proposal of this research is to verify, in the scientific literature, the applicability and functionality of the technologies and instruments available as patterns of representation and description of content and form, in the ambit of digital libraries, with the objective of identifying and characterizing the use and the application of MarcOnt as a tool for the construction of forms of information representation for digital libraries at the present time, highlighting it as an instrument for describing the semantic aspects of the digital contents in these environments. As a methodology, the present work is characterized by being an exploratory and descriptive analysis of the subject, with which it is possible to obtain subsidies for a better and more detailed understanding and comprehension of MarcOnt and the technologies that are included in the ambit of digital libraries for the Semantic Web construction. As a result, it was attempted to demonstrate the application of the MarcOnt tool in a specific informational environment, the JeromeDL Semantic Digital Library, to analyze the fundamentals of Cataloguing the forms of representation of informational resources. That made us define the categories for the future analysis of the system comparing to the MARC21 metadata pattern.