Resources
Organisations and Services
Cataloguing Resources
Cataloguing Internet Resources
Z39.50
Metadata and XML
Organisations and services
BIDS (Bath Information and Data Services) http://www.bids.ac.uk/
The British Library National Bibliographic Service.
http://www.bl.uk/services/bibliographic.html
Includes links to UKMARC Manual, MARC 21 web page and the British Library catalogues on the web
The Library of Congress Cataloguing http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir
Includes links to MARC documentation and to the Program for Cooperative Cataloging
OCLC Online Computer Library Center
http://www.oclc.org/
Cataloguing Resources:
Bibliographic analysis and control, including cataloguing of internet resources (BUBL LINK / 025.3)
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=1027
Cataloger's Reference Shelf, a component of the help systems in Biblio.File and the Library.Solution integrated online library system, is published in web format and is available for free use by any cataloger with a web browser. The CRS is based on 21 MARC manuals and other reference works published by The Library of Congress and frequently accessed by technical services staff.
http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/
Cataloging Foreign Language materials: Resources for Catalogers
http://www.library.umass.edu/catalog/forlang.html
Cataloguing the Internet: CATRIONA Feasibility Study Report To The British Library Research & Development Department / Dennis Nicholson, Mary Steele, Gordon Dunsire and Fred Guy British Library Research and Development Department, 1995 http://bubl.ac.uk/docs/scurl/cat1rep.htm
Cornell University Technical Services Manual
http://www.library.cornell.edu/tsmanual/
Dewey Decimal Classification site
http://www.oclc.org/dewey/default.htm
Human-Languages Page - http://www.june29.com/HLP Hundreds of links to spoken, written, signed, or invented languages. A great listing of translating dictionaries.
LC Classification is a hypertext Library of Congress Classification System which allows browsing of call number ranges.
http://geography.miningco.com/
science/geography/library/congress/bllc.htm
Library of Congress : Cataloging Programs and Services.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/catdir.html#programs
MARC 21 format and the UK library community : proposals by the British Library
http://www.bl.uk/services/
bibliographic/marc21paper.html
Technical Services Unlimited http://tpot.ucsd.edu/TSU/
Universal Bibliographic Control and International Marc Core Programme Concise UNIMARC classification format. Oct 31, 2000
http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-1/concise.htm
A web of online dictionaries. Extensive list of dictionaries covering many languages. They are not exclusively bi-lingual dictionaries with English, or confined to European languages. Some subject specific dictionaries, for example a Norwegian Dictionary of Internet Terms are included.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Web Pages of Technical Services/Cataloging Departments
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/
ercelawn/catdept.html
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Cataloguing Internet Resources:
Cataloging Electronic Resources: OCLC-MARC Coding Guidelines
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/
cataloging/electronicresources/default.htm
CATRIONA II: University Management Of Electronic Resources
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/
projects/catriona/
Guidelines for the Use of Field 856 / Network Development and MARC Standards Office http://www.loc.gov/marc/856guide.html
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Z39.50:
Z39.50 in Europe - and links to other z39.50 information
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/z3950/
Z39.50 maintenance agency home page http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/
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Metadata and XML:
DESIRE Metadata Registry : Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education http://desire.ukoln.ac.uk/registry/
Dublin Core Element Set: http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_elements
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core
e-Government Metadata Standard: documents relating to the e-Government Metadata Framework http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/
interoperability/metadata.asp?age=2&order=title
GovTalk website : UK consultation processes for electronic government http://www.govtalk.gov.uk
Making a MARC with Dublin Core. Jon Knight revisits his Perl module for processing MARC records that was introduced in the last issue of Ariadne and adds UNIMARC, USMARC and a script that converts Dublin Core metadata into USMARC records. This article appears in the Web version of Ariadne only. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ariadne/issue8/marc/
UKOLN Metadata Resources: Extensible Markup Language (XML)
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
metadata/resources/xml.html
What Is... XML? Brian Kelly explains XML http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue15/what-is
XML.ORG: The XML industry portal http://www.xml.org
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Updated: 25 February 2008