Guidelines for Use with the Library of Congress Classification: M
The guide focuses on the assignment of shelflist numbers specifically for music materials, providing a structured approach to cataloging in accordance with the Library of Congress 'M' classification. It serves as a practical resource for librarians and archivists, ensuring accurate organization and easy retrieval of music-related items.
Focusing on the foundational concepts of Knowledge Organization (KO), this book uniquely explores the theories surrounding knowledge and its philosophical foundations. It delves into essential topics such as ontologies, taxonomies, classification, and metadata, while addressing the challenges of organizing knowledge. Designed for both students and professionals in computer and information science, it serves as a comprehensive resource that connects various KO materials, facilitating a deeper understanding of the field. Authored by renowned expert Dr. Richard P. Smiraglia, it is a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners alike.
The identification and contextual definition of concepts is the core of knowledge organization. The full expression of comprehension is accomplished through the use of an extension device called the facet. A facet is a category of dimensional characteristics that cross the hierarchical array of concepts to provide extension, or breadth, to the contexts in which they are discovered or expressed in knowledge organization systems. The use of the facet in knowledge organization has a rich history arising in the mid-nineteenth century. As it has matured through more than a century of application, the notion of the facet in knowledge organization has taken on a variety of meanings, from that of simple categories used in web search engines to the more sophisticated idea of intersecting dimensions of knowledge. This book describes the state of the art of the understanding of facets in knowledge organization today.
This volume, like our 2012 Cultural Frames of Knowledge (Ergon Verlag), is a joint effort of the Knowledge Organization Research Group (KOrg) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies. Core members of KOrg are Margaret E. I. Kipp, Hur-Li Lee, Steven J. Miller, Thomas Walker, WooSeob Zhang and Richard P. Smiraglia. Since 2008 KOrg has worked to foster a dynamic environment for Research in knowledge organization. Smiraglia and Miller have contributed chapters to this volume; Smiraglia and Lee have edited the volume. All of the other contributors have been a part of the work of KOrg in some way or another. CharlesAntoine Julien was our first post-doctoral fellow (2010-2012), Jihee Beak was our first Ph. D. graduate and is currrently Adjunct Professor, Daniel Martínez-Ávila was a visiting fellow as a doctoral student and Adjunct Professor in 2013-2014), and Melodie J. Fox is a Ph. D. candidate. Jane Greenberg has been our visiting Senior Associate Researcher for 2013-2015, and Thomas Dousa and Joseph Tennis have been among the scholars who have visited KOrg and collaborated with us by sharing their ideas and working together with us on research grants and publications.
This project is very much a joint effort of the incredible team of the Information Organization Research Group (IOrg) at
Cultural forces govern a synergistic relationship among information institutions that shapes their roles collectively and individually. Cultural synergy is the combination of perception- and behavior-shaping knowledge within, between, and among groups that contributes to the virtual reality of a common information-sharing interface among information institutions. Our hyperlinked era makes information-sharing among institutions critically important for scholarship as well as for the advancement of humankind. Information institutions are those that have, or share in, the mission to preserve, conserve, and disseminate information objects and their informative content. A central idea is the notion of social epistemology-- that information institutions arise culturally from social forces of the cultures they inhabit, and that their purpose is to disseminate that culture. All information institutions are alike in critical ways. Intersecting lines of cultural mission are trajectories for synergy-- for allowing us to perceive the universe of information institutions as interconnected and evolving and moving forward in distinct ways for the improvement of the condition of humankind through the building up of its knowledge base and of its information-sharing processes. This book is an exploration of the cultural synergy that can be realized by seeing commonalities among information institutions (sometimes also called cultural heritage institutions): museums, libraries, and archives. The hyperlinked era of the Semantic Web makes information sharing among institutions critically important for scholarship as well as the advancement of mankind. The book addresses the origins of cultural information institutions, the history of the professions that run them, and the social imperative of information organization as a catalyst for semantic synergy
The primary focus of this book is on the definition of the work. Its main role is to inform the continuing development of catalogues, search engines, and information retrieval tools that will be able to lead people through the maze of editions and revisions and translations of the work.