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The Preservation of Memory and the Management of Information as a Step towards Sustainable Development
Sustainable development comprehends the balance between human activities and the environment.
Today, more than ever, the need to act with respect for the environment and the urgency in recognizing that we
belong to the planet, and not the other way around, have accelerated and generalized the demand for
information about environmental sustainability, economic and social concerns, and the discussion about which
Humanity should adopt paths to save the species.
The United Nations 2030 Agenda recognizes access to information as a critical goal in the Sustainable
Development Goal of promoting peaceful and inclusive societies, access to justice for all, and building
effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels. In a global and inclusive society, people's access
to information and the need to protect fundamental freedoms is necessarily the founding principle of the path to
achieving global sustainability.
The understanding of the world and society has always been founded on the study of the past, the knowledge of
history, traditions, and memory. Only knowledge of memory allows us to know where we come from and to
determine where we are going. Memory, which is nothing more than informational heritage, a generator agent
of value and distinctive identity, is essential to create, distinguishing, and enriching socioeconomic activities
based on the realities of the environment and local cultures towards socioeconomic and environmental
sustainability and inclusion.
In this paper, we intend to highlight the crucial role of information professionals in sustainable development, as
they play unique and privileged roles in the preservation of people's identity and culture, as well as in the
collection, research, processing, protection, promotion, enhancement, and transmission of information, which
guarantee the viability of Humanity's cultural heritage and access to information as one of the goals of
sustainable development.N/
Terminology Retrieval: Towards a Synergy between Thesaurus and Free Text Searching
Abstract. Multilingual Information Retrieval usually forces a choice between free text indexing or indexing by means of multilingual thesaurus. However, since they share the same objectives, synergy between both approaches is possible. This paper shows a retrieval framework that make use of terminological information in free-text indexing. The Automatic Terminology Extraction task, which is used for thesauri construction, shifts to a searching of terminology and becomes an information retrieval task: Terminology Retrieval. Terminology Retrieval, then, allows cross-language information retrieval through the browsing of morpho-syntactic, semantic and translingual variations of the query. Although terminology retrieval doesn’t make use of them, controlled vocabularies become an appropriate framework for terminology retrieval evaluation.
Electronic IPA and EMBASE: a first glance comparison for pharmacy - a study in progress
EMBASE is known to cover drug related literature more extensively than many other biomedical bibliographic databases, but there is a lack of published comparative studies of EMBASE with IPA. So, the aim of this study was to begin that process
The development and significance of the core curriculum in archives, library and information studies
The main objective of this work is to try to identify the common
grounds existing between archives, library and information studies
from which a core curriculum could be derived for the professionals
in the three fields. The underlying concept in building up such
a core is that the above areas must be viewed as a whole within the
information spectrum.
The historical development of librarianship is taken into
account as well as the early education provided for librarians in
England, United States and Brazil up to modern times when technological
and social innovations have brought about changes in the
information services, practices and procedures which have obviously
had a direct effect on the educational patterns of members of the
profession. [Continues.
Audiovisual research collections and their preservation
The basic problem of primary audio and video research materials is clearly shown by the survey: A great and important part of the entire heritage is still outside archival custody in the narrower sense, scattered over many institutions in fairy small collections, and even in private hands. reservation following generally accepted standards can only be carried out effectively if collections represent critical mass. Specialised audiovisual archives will solve their problems, as they will sooner or later succeed in getting appropriate funding to achieve their aims. A very encouraging example is the case of the Netherlands. The larger audiovisual research archives will also manage, more or less autonomously, the transfer of contents in time. For a considerable part of the research collections, however, the concept of cooperative models and competence centres is the only viable model to successfullly safeguard their holdings. Their organisation and funding is a considerable challenge for the scientific community. TAPE has significantly raised awareness of the fact that, unless action is swiftly taken, the loss of audiovisual materials is inevitable. TAPE’s international and regional workshops were generally overbooked. While TAPE was already underway, several other projects for the promotion of archives have received grants from organisations other than the European Commission, inter alia support for the St. Petersburg Phonogram Archive, and the Folklore Archive in Tirana, obviously as a result of a better understanding of the need for audiovisual preservation. When the TAPE project started its partners assumed that cooperative projects would fail because of the notorious distrust of researchers, specifically in the post-communist countries. One of the most encouraging surprises was to learn that, at least in the most recent survey, it became apparent that this social obstacle is fading out. TAPE may have contributed to this important development
Special Libraries, January 1967
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Special Libraries, February 1978
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