Positioning Library Data for the Semantic Web: Recent Developments in Resource Description

Recent developments in resource description standards and technologies have aimed at moving cataloging practice to the web environment and making library data available for exchange and reuse on the Semantic Web. As the library community looks outward and forward, library standards and technologies are converging with Web practices in three areas: content description, data models, and data exchange. This article captures the essence of the core standards and technologies that underlie the daily work of practitioners of library service, including Resource Description and Access (RDA), Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), the Linked Data environment, Resource Description Framework (RDF), and the Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative (BIBFRAME). The article will discuss their intersections with existing practice during this period of transition, as well as their potential impacts on the future cataloging practice

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The Blended Cataloguer in the Post-Digital Library Data Curator, Knowledge Creator, Information Policymaker

This dissertation consists of a critical commentary anchored on the portfolio of publications consisting of six peer-reviewed papers selected for their breadth of coverage on library cataloguing issues and also for their evolutionary and futuristic outlook. The overall project traces the transformation of the work of the professional library cataloguer through examining advances in the past decade as documented in the prior publications, and charts the expansionary trajectory of the profession in light of the ongoing digital transition in libraries. The critical commentary places cataloguing, the catalogue, the cataloguer, and catalogue librarianship in the evolutionary framework for library services, described in Michael Buckland’s 1992 publication Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto , and subsequent extensions of this framework by other authors. Into this framework, a new “Blended” state, omitted as transitory between “Paper” and “Electronic” in Buckland’s framework, is inserted, and a new professional identity of the “Blended Cataloguer” is developed to take on the roles of data curator, knowledge creator, and information policymaker. A unified practice surrounding these new roles, the “Decomposition-Assembly Approach” is developed to describe a data processing methodology incorporating both traditional and digital library cataloguing skills. Beyond complementing the new Blended Cataloguer professional identity, this approach is also shown to represent a practical approach to “enrich and filter,” a theoretical model for digital library metadata developed by Alemu and Stevens (2015). The Blended Cataloguer practising the Decomposition-Assembly Approach represents a radical shift from the traditional standard-based practise, and provides a new evolutionary framework and practical model for current library cataloguers and metadata workers that will enable the development of foundational information infrastructure for future library services and provide leadership in shaping the broader information ecosystem