Corc: New Tools and Possibilities for Cooperative Electronic Resource Description

by Riemer; John J

• ISBN13: 9780789013040
• ISBN10: 0789013045
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781040894491
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-09
• Publisher: CRC Press
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Summary

Explore 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 practitioners and managers who are applying CORC to their daily operations. The discussions of the creation and use of CORC include: a big-picture view of CORC from the founder CORC's relation to the program for cooperative cataloging faceted access to LCSH the WordSmith project to obtain subject terminology directly from web documents use of online DDC to assist in classification and subject heading assignment OCLC's Dublin Core--MARC crosswalk librarians'experiences with the implementations of CORC within cataloging and cross-functional teams using CORC and Dublin Core to catalog special categories of material: serials, art, and maps CORC: New Tools and Possibilities for Cooperative Electronic Resource Description examines the nuts-and-bolts practical matters of making a cataloging system work in the Internet environment, where information objects are electronic, transient, and numerous. This valuable book will also help to define the future of librarianship and information access in this exciting time when the World Wide Web is transforming education and communication practices.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Jay Jordan
Introduction	1	(4)
Karen Calhoun
John J. Riemer
Collaboration in CORC	5	(12)
Thomas B. Hickey
CORC and the Future of Libraries: Two University Librarians' Perspectives	17	(12)
Charlene Hurt
William Gray Potter
A Relationship Between CORC and the PCC: Rationale and Possibilities	29	(6)
John J. Riemer
A Faceted Approach to Subject Data in the Dublin Core Metadata Record	35	(14)
Lois Mai Chan
Eric Childress
Rebecca Dean
Edward T. O' Neill
Diane Vizine-Goetz
Terminology Identification in a Collection of Web Resources	49	(18)
Carol Jean Godby
Ray Reighart
Dewey in CORC: Classification in Metadata and Pathfinders	67	(14)
Diane Vizine-Goetz
Crosswalking Metadata in the OCLC CORC Service	81	(8)
Eric Childress
Cataloging in CORC: A Work in Progress	89	(22)
Jeff Edmunds
Roger Brisson
Utilizing CORC to Develop and Maintain Access to Biomedical Web Sites	111	(12)
Norm Medeiros
Robert F. McDonald
Paul Wrynn
Never the Twain Shall Meet? Collaboration Between Catalogers and Reference Librarians in the OCLC CORC Project at Brown University	123	(8)
Ann Caldwell
Dominque Coulombe
Ronald Fark
Michael Jackson
CORC and Collaborative Internet Resource Description: A New Partnership for Technical Services, Collection Development and Public Services	131	(12)
Karen Calhoun
Dublin Core and Serials	143	(6)
Wayne Jones
Using the Dublin Core to Document Digital Art: A Case Study	149	(14)
Ann Hanlon
Ann Copeland
Using the Dublin Core with CORC to Catalog Digital Images of Maps	163	(16)
David Yehling Allen
Index	179