...Trevor James Bond Purpose Aims to provide an overview of methods for digitizing maps, the creation and preservation of a digital collection, interoperable database construction, and an examination of the real costs associated with maintaining a digital collection. Design/methodology/approach...

...Panayiota Polydoratou Purpose MetaForm is a database that hosts metadata element sets, descriptions and guidelines for their use. It is the focal point of the Metadata Server at SUB Göttingen for anyone who is using metadata to describe networked resources or would like to familiarise themselves...

... will contribute to reducing the number of typographical errors in authority records. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Information retrieval Libraries Online catalogues Databases Typographical errors (typos) in bibliographic and authority records are a barrier to effective information...

... for approximately half of their overall DCMES usage. The results show the DCMES is not used to its fullest extent within DPs registered with OAI. Digital libraries Online databases Databases As the World Wide Web grows in size and the amount of available information continues to expand, users often end...

... of electronic tools have made them all the more popular among catalogers. This paper reviews electronic versions of various cataloging tools and discusses their salient features. Issued by GRC International (GRCI), LaserQuest is the world’s largest CD‐ROM cataloging database for retrospective conversion...

...Robert E. Duncan Collections of links to Web resources become difficult to maintain and use as they grow in size. Database‐driven, dynamic Web publishing solutions offer searching capabilities and display options, and enable librarians to maintain current and accurate information. Reference...

...Bryan H. Davidson As the number of online journals, databases, and indexing and abstracting services continues to grow on the Internet, it is important that libraries find efficient ways to manage and provide access to these resources. By utilizing database driven dynamic content delivery...

... to RDF‐based metadata. The present application (October, 2000) provides the following functions: creation, deletion, and management of RDF databases; ability to infuse RDF instance data into RDF databases; ability to search RDF databases; and generic interface design capabilities...

... bibliographic database (containing more than thre million references) moving into a Web service. As a part of the conversion process in progress the database format is under evaluation. In this connection major metadata formats such as Dublin Core, STAS, GILS and TEI have been compared and reviewed in order...

... in the Unesco Seminar were assembled. At 3.00 p.m. Liverpool time I telephoned Jack Scott, who then waited for instructions. I invited anyone in the Liverpool audience to mention an English‐language book, and received several titles. I gave the titles to Jack Scott, who queried the OCLC database and read to me...

..., to providing new products and services that will reduce libraries’ costs. He invited the OCLC community to join together in 1996 to celebrate the 25th year of OCLC’s Online Union Catalog, which is now the most consulted database in higher education. George Happ reported that the executive committee...

... Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy, Volume 7 Number 1, 1997. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Computing Databases Information services Internet Libraries Online retrieval Planning More than five years ago, Ohio academic libraries touted the advantages of being able to use...

... for the OCLC interface = 20 © MCB UP Limited 1995 Computer software Databases Here at UC Irvine, like most other libraries, the ILL lending process has been a labor‐intensive task. On the lending side, it was a multistep process: 1 We ran the OCLC Micro‐Enhancer in batch mode...

... in acquainting a new system user with PRISM search methods and strategies. With good search skills and strategies, a searcher can reduce the total search cost to a great extent. This will be detailed later in the section on PRISM search cost analysis. Computer software Databases Information retrieval...

.... Databases Internet Meetings Minutes The winter meeting of the OCLC Users Council focussed on “The NII, the Internet, and OCLC: The Next Generation”. The meeting began on Sunday evening, with K. Wayne Smith, OCLC president and CEO, giving his report. Dr K. Wayne Smith, OCLC president and CEO...

... daily. So, of available database packages, non‐Windows programs were removed. From the list of Windows‐based database front‐ends, I chose Paradox for Windows. That decision, again, affected how binary‐file manipulation would be handled, steering me toward Visual Basic for Windows (again rooted...

... a catalog of Internet resources. OCLC is putting in an additional$45,000 for this project, which starts a nationwide, coordinated effort among libraries to build a searchable database of bibliographic records for Internet‐accessible materials. It is hoped that this project will bring bibliographic law...

... and how the library and biology disciplines networked “like never before” to come to this agreement. The deal was made in Fall 1994. An agreement was struck that the biology students would gain access to FirstSearch after they had been trained in bibliographic instruction to use the database. A meeting...

... on cooperative efforts. In doing so, we will all benefit. OCLC will get a more dynamic, cleaner database to market and, increasingly, to repackage and sell. Catalog departments worldwide will have a better source database and have an easier time making greater contributions in cooperative programs...

... to supplement our electronic index access. Because there is a finite limit to the resources at our disposal for electronic information access and storage, we have provided our clientele with relatively inexpensive access to databases we would not have been able to support in other ways. OCLC′s...