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 librariansexperiences 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.
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"PROVIDES AN ASTUTE BALANCE OF THE THEORETICAL WITH THE PRACTICAL, of the manager's point of view with the specialist's. All of the chapters are well written and offer thought-provoking insights. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK FOR ANY INDIVIDUAL OR INSTITUTION TRYING TO BRING ORDER TO THE CHAOS and to take positive steps to building a real digital library."Carol G. Hixson, MS, Head, Catalog Department, University of Oregon; Chair, PCC Standing Committee on Training
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
P>Karen Calhoun, MS, MBA, is Director of Central Technical Services at Cornell University Library. She leads Cornell's participation in the CORC project, plays a key role in the organization of the library's networked resources and services,and is a frequent speaker and author on technical services in the digital library. Karen chairs the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Standing Committee on Automation. Previously she held positions at OCLC and the University of Oregon.
John J. Riemer, MLS, is the GALILEO CORC Representative in the state of Georgia and Assistant Head of Cataloging at the University of Georgia. He has organized training for and helped to coordinate half a dozen metadata projects. For over ten years he served as Head of Serials Cataloging and represented the library on the CONSER Operations Committee. Previously he held positions at the University of California, Los Angeles.
