Internet resource classification and I Guide - Resources and Review

Index of sites who are employing various classification schemes, or controlled vocabularies, to describe Internet resources. Arranged by type of classification scheme.
 
Full text of a report to the British Library Research and Development Department from the CATRIONA 1 project, based at Strathclyde University Library. The study concludes that the idea of a distributed catalogue of Internet resources integrated with standard Z39.50 library system OPAC interfaces (and hence, with retrieval of information on hard copy resources) is already a practical proposition at its most basic level.
 
Links to documents archived by IFLA and external resources relating to metadata. Metadata is data about data. The term refers to any data used to aid the identification, description and location of networked electronic resources.
 
Resources about the Dublin Metadata Core Element Set, a simple information resource description which also aims to provide a basis for semantic interoperability between other, probably more complicated, formats and is also intended to provide the basis for resource embedded description, initially with HTML documents.
 
The OCLC Internet Cataloging project coordinates a worldwide volunteer effort to identify, select, and catalogue Internet resources. Position papers and field reports from a meeting in 1996.
 
Article describing initiatives to develop unique identifiers for digital objects. Based on a seminar organised jointly by Book Industry Communication and the UK Office for Library and Information Networking. Briefly describes Digital Object Identifier (DOI), Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (SICI), Book Item and Component Identifier (BICI), and Publisher Item Identifier (PII). Also summarises results of group reports and a plenary discussion.
 
Guide developed to aid those participating in the OCLC and US Department of Education funded project 'Building a Catalog of Internet Resources'. Examples and guidelines are coded and tagged as needed for OCLC input.
 
Directory of articles, bibliographies, periodicals and mailing lists dealing with cataloguing of the Internet.
 
Collection of Internet resources arranged using the Dewey Decimal Classification system. An alphabetical index is also provided.
 
Resources about the Dublin Metadata Core Element Set, a simple information resource description which also aims to provide a basis for semantic interoperability between other, probably more complicated, formats and is also intended to provide the basis for resource embedded description, initially with HTML documents.
 
Project examining quality control of Internet resources focusing on major subject gateways. Also describes methods and tools that have been created to assist staff in the maintenance of quality control.
 
A clearinghouse of projects, research projects and services that are investigating or which demonstrate the automated categorisation, classification, or organisation of Web resources. A working bibliography of key and significant reports, papers, and articles is also provided. Projects and associated publications have been arranged by the name of the university, corporation, or other organisation with which the principal investigator of a project is affiliated.
 
Descriptions of over 40 resources relevant to cataloguing Internet resources, including cataloguing tools, USMARC proposals and discussion papers.
 
Project funded under DESIRE to study classification schemes currently being used to describe Internet resources. Covers major schemes such as DDC, UDC and LCC, international subject specific schemes such as NLM, and some national general schemes.
 
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