Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals

Stuart, David. Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals.Chicago: ALA Neal Schuman,2016. 006.332 Stuar     ISBN978-0-83891511-0

More data and information is being created than ever before. Ontologies, formal representations of knowledge with rich semantic relationships, have become increasingly important in the context of today’s information overload and data deluge. The publishing and sharing of explicit explanations for a wide variety of concepts, in a machine readable format, has the power to both improve information retrieval and discover new knowledge. Information professionals are key contributors to the development of new, and increasingly useful, ontologies.

Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals provides an accessible introduction to the following:

·        defining the concept of ontologies and why they are increasingly important to information professionals;
·        ontologies and the Semantic Web;
·        existing ontologies, such as RDF, RDFS, SKOS, and OWL2;
·        adopting and building ontologies, showing how to avoid repetition of work and how to build a simple ontology;
·        interrogating ontologies for reuse; and
·        the future of ontologies and the role of the information professional in their development and use.

• the future of ontologies and the role of the information professional in their development and use.More data and information is being created than ever before. Ontologies, formal representations of knowledge with rich semantic relationships, have become increasingly important in the context of today’s information overload and data deluge. The publishing and sharing of explicit explanations for a wide variety of concepts, in a machine readable format, has the power to both improve information retrieval and discover new knowledge. Information professionals are key contributors to the development of new, and increasingly useful, ontologies.

Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals provides an accessible introduction to the following:

• defining the concept of ontologies and why they are increasingly important to information professionals;
• ontologies and the Semantic Web;
• existing ontologies, such as RDF, RDFS, SKOS, and OWL2;
• adopting and building ontologies, showing how to avoid repetition of work and how to build a simple ontology;
• interrogating ontologies for reuse; and
  the future of ontologies and the role of the information professional in their development and use.

FRBR, Before and After: A Look at Our Bibliographic Models

Coyle, Karen. FRBR, Before and After: A Look at Our Bibliographic Models. ALA Editions, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1345-1

Description
Coyle persuasively argues that to more effectively connect library users with books, movies, music, computer games, and other resources, library data needs to move beyond FRBR towards a more integrative approach to bibliographic models. But doing so requires fundamental changes in the approach to library data. She points the way ahead for catalogers and metadata specialists, providing clear explanations and analysis.

Table of Contents
Introduction 
Part I    Work, Model, Technology
1. The Work
2. The Model
3. The Technology
Part II    FRBR and Other Solutions
4. FRBR in Context
5. FRBR: Standard for International Sharing
6. The Entity-Relation Model
7. What Is Modeled in FRBR
8. Does FRBR Meet FRBR’s Objectives?
9. Some Issues that Arise
10. Bibliographic Description and the Semantic Web
11. Afterward

Catalogue 2.0

 

Chambers, Sally (ed.) Catalogue 2.0: The Future of the Library Catalogue. Neal-Schuman, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-55570-943-3.

Description
This timely book takes into account developments that influence catalogue potential and patrons’ needs, such as competition from popular websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Wikipedia, to provide an overview of the current state of the art of the library catalogue while looking ahead to see what the library catalogue might become. Key leaders in the field including Karen Calhoun, Lorcan Dempsey, Emmanuelle Bermès, and Marshall Breeding discuss cutting-edge issues such as

• Next generation catalogues
• Making search work for the library user
• Next-generation discovery: an overview of the European Scene
• The mobile library catalogue
• FRBRizing your catalogue
• Enabling your catalogue for the Semantic Web
• Supporting digital scholarship: bibliographic control, library co-operatives and open access repositories
• 13 ways of looking at libraries, discovery and the catalogue: scale, workflow, attention