Manual cataloging and indexing

Objectives of the Library

Mesopotamian Catalogs

Some Definitions

Linguistic Relativity

Steps in Subject Indexing

Conceptual analysis

Index terms

Number of index terms in record

Translation

Controlled vocabularies

Controlled vocabulary objectives

Difficulties in Naming Authorities

Controlled vocabulary usability

Controlled vocabulary examples

Classification

Objectives of classification

Types of classification

Dewey Decimal Classification

ACM Classification scheme

Faceted Indexing

Colon Classification

Classification Maintenance

To think about…

Metadata creation and management*

What is metadata, anyways?

Outline

Types of metadata

Types of metadata

Types of metadata

Types of metadata

Types of metadata

Metadata attributes

Data types: MIME

Complex objects and granularity

MPEG 7

Audio/visual metadata

HTML Meta tags

MARC / AACR 2 / TEIH

Data Types

Dublin Core Elements

Dublin Core Elements (Con’t)

DC Elements (Con’t)

Warwick Example

STARTS: A Metasearching Protocol

Distributed Search? Why?
“Surface” Web vs. “Hidden” Web

Hidden Web: Examples

Query Probing

Focused Probing: Sampling

Adjusting Document Frequencies

Focused Probing

Automatic Extraction of Metadata

MeURLin

Crosswalking

Reference

Summing Up