I always want to have our bibliographers/subject specialists to be
cataloged with the appropriate subject headings. My goal is to have
relationship similar to that Eric mentioned below. Some of my
librarian colleagues were appalled at the thought that they're being
treated as an "object." *grin* Although, our cataloging and metadata
service librarian found it quite intriguing and did a little
brainstorming on the FRBRization of it.
Seriously, Eric's post below gave some nice ideas and the term
"context management" popped in my head for some reason.
ranti.
On Dec 12, 2007 1:31 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nd.edu> wrote:
> In an academic setting the information about people (users) can be
> gleaned from the human resources department and/or the registrar. I'm
> sure they know things like: names, addresses, departments, ranks,
> majors, courses of study, classes being taken, etc. This information
> can be mapped to formal controlled vocabularies or more informal
> subjects. Those vocabularies and/or subjects can then be mapped to
> library subject specialists or formally cataloged information
> resources. Given this sorts of mappings it will be possible to
> creation relationships between resources, patrons, and librarians --
> sort of like a relational database join operation.
>
> For example, you know there are N number of courses at your
> institution on anthropology. You can then catalog information
> resources (indexes, databases, websites, etc.) with an anthropology
> term. You can then allow people to optionally sign-in to your library
> system. It would then look up the person, find out that they are a
> freshman taking Anthropology 101 and list sets of resources (as well
> as a librarian) that may be of assistance. A different set of
> resources might be suggested for the Ph.D. student.
>
> Librarians do these sorts of things now --- in a face-to-face
> environment -- but as fewer and fewer people come to our physical
> locations for information assistance it becomes necessary figure out
> ways to implement these sorts of services in a computer networked
> environment.
>
> A library "catalog" does not have to only articulate relationships
> between information resources and other information resources. It can
> also articulate relationships between information resources and people.
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