Description
Book SynopsisExplore the capabilities--and the limitations--of CORC and the Dublin Core!The explosion of online resources has brought with it a host of new metadata schemes and cataloging projects. One of OCLC''s most important projects is discussed in CORC: New Tools and Possibilities for Cooperative Electronic Resource Description. This fascinating volume on the pioneering collaborative computer system will help you enhance the value of library services and improve the productivity of librarians and library users.CORC offers a blend of theoretical and practical approaches to broad-based and specialized cataloging problems to help you take advantage of the benefits of the new cooperative cataloging of digital resources. The fourteen chapters in this book tell stories of new ideas, discoveries, and insights gained by being part of the CORC project. The authors represent the perspectives not only of CORC founders, researchers, developers, and observers, but also of library practi
Table of ContentsContents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Collaboration in CORC
- CORC and the Future of Libraries: Two University Librarians' Perspective
- A Relationship Between CORC and the PCC: Rationale and Possibilities
- A Faceted Approach to Subject Data in the Dublin Core Metadata Record
- Terminology Identification in a Collection of Web Resources
- Dewey in CORC: Classification in Metadata and Pathfinders
- Crosswalking Metadata in the OCLC CORC Service
- Cataloging in CORC: A Work in Progress
- Utilizing CORC to Develop and Maintain Access to Biomedical Web Sites
- Never the Twain Shall Meet? Collaboration Between Catalogers and Reference Librarians in the OCLC CORC Project at Brown University
- CORC and Collaborative Internet Resource Description: A New Partnership for Technical Services, Collection Development and Public Services
- Dublin Core and Serials
- Using the Dublin Core to Document Digital Art: A Case Study
- Using the Dublin Core with CORC to Catalog Digital Images of Maps
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
