It Takes a Village: Developing Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms     

Janis L. Young  Yael Mandelstam 《Cataloging & classification quarterly》2013,51(1-3):6-24

The Library of Congress (LC) is in the process of developing a separate thesaurus of genre/form terms, which describe what a work or expression is, rather than what it is about. From the beginning, LC policy specialists realized that to accomplish this undertaking, it would be both necessary and desirable to collaborate with the library community. This article examines and evaluates the various methods of collaboration used by LC in the creation of the genre/form thesaurus.  相似文献   

An Amicable Divorce: Programmatic Derivation of Faceted Data from Library of Congress Subject Headings for Music     

Casey A. Mullin 《Cataloging & classification quarterly》2013,51(7):607-627

Abstract

Music catalogers have embraced in current cataloging the flexibility, intuitiveness, and expressivity afforded by the Library of Congress’s new faceted vocabularies. In order to realize the full benefits to discovery these vocabularies offer, however, methods for programmatically assigning faceted terms retrospectively to existing metadata for music resources are required in order to mitigate the costs of manual enhancement of legacy data. This article describes efforts to repurpose existing Library of Congress Subject Headings as faceted data, taking advantage of recent developments in the MARC 21 formats. Limitations inherent to this process and ideas for future directions are described.  相似文献