Metadata and Cataloging Education - Web Clearinghouse Prototype - Single File for Download

Download the entire MACE Clearinghouse as a single file - this one. At the very end of the single file are some of the LC subject headings for our areas of study and topics. The single file document is at http://www.sir.arizona.edu/faculty/coleman/lc/final/all.html (all the arrows on this single file will however take you to the prototype Clearinghouse home - the short index page).

Notes About MACE Web Clearinghouse Prototype

Introduction to Content in the Prototype Clearinghouse

The prototype of the Metadata and Cataloging Education clearinghouse brings together networked electronic (online) resources that will be useful for teaching and learning in the areas of metadata, cataloging, classification, indexing, information architecture, knowledge organization and management. About 200 unique resources are currently available in the prototype clearinghouse.

This is a prototype. As a prototype it has a few flaws. For example, the links (in URL fields) don't always work as they should (cut and paste them in your browser location bar and they will work) and the resources are not always arranged in perfect alphabetical order. There is no automatic timestamp which shows when the file was last updated. However, these are minor flaws that will be corrected in the final Clearinghouse. The Library of Congress will be hosting the Web Clearinghouse and their proposal can be viewed here [pdf file].

The following descriptive elements are used to describe each teaching/learning resource:

Type of Resource: form/genre of the resource
Author: who created/edited/compiled the resource; there is no authority control used for the names
Title: title of the resource
Location/Identifier: URL
Subject: when possible LCSH are used; again, when possible, selective depth analysis level of indexing is used
Keyword: natural language is used to complement subject indexing; duplication of words from fields such as titles and description is avoided
Description: this is often taken directly from the resource or created at time of resource description
Rights:
Copyright: who, if any, owns the copyright of the resource when known is given; two categories are used: public domain; copyrighted; if a copyright/use page is available the URL to that is also provided.
Access: whether the resource is freely available or must be subscribed or purchased is noted
Date of creation and last modification: when the the resource was created/last updated, when known, are given
Format of Resource: most of the time the format is text/html (ordinary web browsers can access it); Adobe PDF, MS-Powerpoint, and other formats are noted
Educational Level: three levels are used and these correspond to Hsieh-Yee's report. Level 1: All Graduate Students; Level 2: Metadata Catalogers; Level 3: Metadata Architects

Structure of the Prototype Clearinghouse

Limitations and Evaluation of the Prototype

Some limitations of the prototype are: 1) there is no search or sitemap; 2) there are no suggestion boxes or forms whereby users can suggest new resources for adding it into the clearinghouse, create metadata for suggested resources, or provide annotations, reviews, and teaching tips for resources they have created or used from the clearinghouse. Two other limitations are related to subject scope of the Clearinghouse although they were not included as part of my work on the prototype: 1) Addition of resources on Metadata Quality (related topics are: cataloging quality and productivity) - although a preliminary list has been compiled and will be made available shortly I have not had the time to do resource descriptions; 2) I would also like to have used Arlene Taylor's "The Organization of Information" (2nd edition) as a cross-check but again, I ran out of time.

The prototype is not scheduled for evaluation. Once the prototype has been copied/moved into it's final format the evaluation can include the following questions: 1) Do the browse categories used benefit LIS educators teaching in these areas? 2) Should the 'forms' (types) of resources be defined? How? 3) Are the elements of description used sufficient? If not, what else is needed? 4) What is the scope of the Clearinghouse? Comprehensiveness or selectiveness and quality? 5) I found few 'Activity' and 'Test' types of resources. How can these types be increased? 6) How appropriate and useful are the three educational levels? 7) What is the level of granularity at which resources should be described? For example, I find lists of links (such as directories or those in the Bibliography section of the prototype) not very useful for teaching tasks and prefer more individual resources with descriptions. Is this true of other instructors?

Additionally, in setting up the Clearinghouse prototype, I've tried to do some things to help in its evaluation and future growth: For example, not all categories are defined. I looked at ERIC and in fact a lot of other books (Mann's 1932 educational subject headings) and digital libraries (projects) for definitions of the 'form' of learning resources but wasn't satisified. So the definitions for forms are sort of like samples and/or place holders. NSDL has just begun this discussion in conjunction with DCMI about defining 'types'. In evaluating the Clearinghouse, embedding just one survey question in each of the Browse Catgeory pages about definition, may help flesh definitions that will be more usable to our groups. Similarly, for the systems of organization, retrieval tools, etc., I thought we could use Taylor's text definitions but again, did not put them in. I separated the tools/schemes/standards from resources about them in most places. But mixed both together in the Ontologies page - i.e., this page should only list ontologies but right now it has 2 other resources 'about ontologies.' Again, can use this to evaluate the clearinghouse organization for our user groups.

Activity - MACE Web Clearinghouse

Activity: A task or exercise that students are asked to do - often as part of a lesson plan or other larger unit of instruction - to help them develop particular skills, knowledge, or habits of mind. Usually, the goals and outcomes are broad. Source: GEM Types of Learning Materials

Type of Resource: Activity
Author: Allyson Carlyle
Title: Cataloging Exercises for UW iSchool Beginning Cataloging Course
Location/Identifier: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/acarlyle/courses/catex.htm
Subject: Descriptive cataloging - Rules; Subject cataloging
Keyword: Cataloging Exercises, MARC, AACR2, Access Point, Authority Control, Vocabulary Control, Classification Scheme, Evaluation, Catalog Interface
Description: A collection of five (5) exercises and answers with examples of not completely real title pages. The titles are based on actual documents, but the exercise title pages & information have been changed to create bibliographic ghosts (non-existent documents). The individual exercises and answers are hyperlinked from this page and are available in Microsoft Word
Rights:
Copyright: 2004 Carlyle
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html; Application/Microsoft Word
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Activity
Author: Allyson Carlyle
Title: Exercise 1: "Library Trustee" Introduction to Descriptive Cataloging.
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/acarlyle/courses/CarlyleExercise1.doc
Subject: Descriptive cataloging - Rules
Keyword: Cataloging Exercise, AACR2R, MARC, Library Trustee, Cataloging samples
Description: This is a single page MS Word file that shows the title page of a book, "Library Trustee". It can be used for teaching cataloging using a monographic workform and AACR2R descriptive rules.
Rights:
Copyright: 2004 Carlyle
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: Application/Microsoft Word
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Activity
Author: Allyson Carlyle
Title: Exercise 1 Answer: Possible Cataloging of "Library Trustee".
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/acarlyle/courses/CarlyleExercise1ans.doc
Subject: Descriptive cataloging - Rules
Keyword: AACR2R; MARC
Description: This is a two page MS Word file that shows the monographic workform for the book "Library Trustee" with the cataloging done. It is used for teaching cataloging using a monographic workform and AACR2R descriptive rules. The second page explains the codes and tags used on the workform.
Rights:
Copyright: 2004 Carlyle
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: Application/Microsoft Word
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Activity
Author: Allyson Carlyle
Title: Exercise 2: "Current Trends in Cost of Quality" Introduction to Descriptive Cataloging.
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/acarlyle/courses/CarlyleExercise2.doc
Subject: Descriptive cataloging - Rules
Keyword: AACR2R; MARC
Description: This is a single page MS Word file that shows the title page of a book, " Trends in Cost of Quality: Linking the Cost of Quality and Continuous Improvement ".
Rights:
Copyright: 2004 Carlyle
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: Application/Microsoft Word
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Activity
Author: Allyson Carlyle
Title: Exercise 2 Answer: Possible Cataloging of "Cost of Quality".
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/acarlyle/courses/CarlyleExercise2ans.doc
Subject: Descriptive cataloging - Rules
Keyword: AACR2R; MARC
Description: This is a two page MS Word file that shows the monographic workform for the book �Current Trends in Cost of Quality: Linking the Cost of Quality and Continuous Improvement �with the cataloging done.
Rights:
Copyright: 2004 Carlyle
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: Application/Microsoft Word
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Activity
Author: Allyson Carlyle
Title: Exercise 3: "More Kennedy Wit" Introduction to Descriptive Cataloging.
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/acarlyle/courses/CarlyleExercise3.doc
Subject: Descriptive cataloging - Rules
Keyword: AACR2R; MARC
Description: This is a single page MS Word file that shows the title page of a book (not real), " More Kennedy Wit" and is an exercise for descriptive cataloging.
Rights:
Copyright: 2004 Carlyle
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: Application/Microsoft Word
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Activity
Author: Allyson Carlyle
Title: Exercise 3 Answer: Possible Cataloging of " More Kennedy Wit".
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/acarlyle/courses/CarlyleExercise3ans.doc
Subject: Descriptive cataloging - Rules
Keyword: AACR2R; MARC
Description: This is a two page MS Word file that shows the monographic workform for the book �" More Kennedy Wit" �with the cataloging done.
Rights:
Copyright: 2004 Carlyle
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: Application/Microsoft Word
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Activity
Author: Allyson Carlyle
Title: Searching Exercise: Saving the time of the user.
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/acarlyle/courses/SavetimeEx.doc
Subject: Cataloging,
Keyword: Bibliographic record; Keyword search; Author search; Title search; Access point
Description: This is a two-page MS Word file that shows the relationship between record content and access to content. The Exercise searches Library of Congress and Cascade by using the same search criteria and tests the performance of record retrieval on Title, Author, and Keyword searches.
Rights:
Copyright: � 2004 Carlyle
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: Application/Microsoft Word
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Activity
Author: Allyson Carlyle
Title: Searching Exercise Answer: Possible search to perform on �saving the time of the user".
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/acarlyle/courses/ SavetimeExans.doc
Subject: Cataloging
Keyword: Bibliographic record; Keyword search; Author search; Title search; Access point
Description: This is a one-page Excel file that shows performance of searches by author, title, and keyword (Library of Congress catalog and Cascade) and notes if it results in a successful retrieval.
Rights:
Copyright: 2004 Carlyle
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: Application/Microsoft Word
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Activity
Author: Allyson Carlyle
Title: Catalog Evaluation - Syracuse University Library Catalog
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.ischool.washington.edu/acarlyle/courses/cateval.doc
Subject: Cataloging
Keyword: Catalog evaluation; Search types; Bibliographic description; Access point; Authority control; Vocabulary control
Description: This is a six-page MS Word file that helps to learn about and evaluate the organization of information in an actual library setting, and reinforce knowledge and understanding of cataloging practice. It can be used for teaching evaluation of the library catalog and critical thinking about information systems and retrieval tools such as the catalog.
Rights:
Copyright: 2004 Carlyle
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: Application/Microsoft Word
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Authority File - MACE Web Clearinghouse

Type of Resource: Authority File
Author: Library of Congress
Title: LC Authorities
Location/Identifier: http://authorities.loc.gov
Subject: Authority files (Information retrieval); Name Authority File; Subject Authority File
Keyword: Authority records, MARC, Authority headings
Description: Library of Congress Authorities (Name Authority File and Subejct Authority File) can be used for browsing and displaying authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations, and for downloading authority records in MARC format for use in a local library system. This service is offered free of charge.
Rights:
Copyright: � The Library of Congress
Access: Freely available
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-07-29
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Archival Finding Aid - MACE Web Clearinghouse

Type of Resource: Finding Aid
Author: None
Title: Encoded Archival Description Finding Aids
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/ead/
Subject: Information organization
Keyword: EAD finding aids
Description: The Library of Congress has helped develop an international standard, EAD, for encoding archival finding aids, and routinely create detailed inventories, registers, indexes, and guides that describe the collections of primary source material under their control. These descriptive access tools provide more complete information about a collection than you will find in the Library of Congress� online catalogs. There are finding aids for: folklife collections, geography & map collections, manuscript collections, performing arts collections, prints & photographs collections, rare book collections, and recorded sound collections.
Rights:
Copyright: Library of Congress
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-08-09
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Finding Aid
Author: None
Title: Online Archive of California (OAC)
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
Subject: Online bibliographic searching, Web archives
Keyword: Finding aids, Images, Collections, California,
Description: The OAC is a digital information resource that facilitates and provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California. The OAC includes a single, searchable database of "finding aids" to primary sources and their digital facsimiles.
Rights:
Copyright: � 2004 The Regents of The University of California
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Article - MACE Web Clearinghouse

Journal articles, essays (published and unpublished), and reports of all sorts are included here.
Type of Resource: Article
Author: Aristotle
Title: Categories
Location/Identifier: http://www.classicallibrary.org/aristotle/categories/
Subject: Classification
Keyword: Homonyms; Synonyms; Derivatives; Simple and composite expressions; Predicates; Objects of thought; Substance; Quantity; Relation; Qualities; Action and affection; Four classes of opposites; Contraries; Use of the term "prior"; Use of the term "simultaneous"; Six kinds of motion; The Meanings of the term "to have"
Description: This is a translation by E.M. Edghill of Aristotle's Categories, the classical theory of classification. There are fifteen (15) parts in three (3) sections.
Rights:
Copyright: 2001 The Classical library
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Article
Author: Howard Beck and Helena Sofia Pinto
Title: Overview of Approach, Methodologies, Standards, and Tools for Ontologies
Location/Identifier: http://www.fao.org/agris/aos/Documents/BackgroundAOS.html
Subject: Ontology
Keyword: Thesaurus; Database management; Natural language processing
Description: This paper discusses the similarities and differences between thesauri and ontologies, and it can be used as supplementary reading material.
Rights:
Copyright: 2001, 2002, Helena Sofia Andrade Nunes Pereira Pinto (Sections 2, 3, and 5); 2002 University of Florida (Sections 1, 4, and 6).
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Article
Author: Michael Buckland
Title: What is a Document?
Location/Identifier: http://sims.berkeley.edu/~buckland/whatdoc.html
Subject: Information Organization
Keyword: Information science; documentation
Description: This is a preprint of an article published in the Journal of the American Society of Information Science 48, no. 9 (Sept 1997): 804-809, published for the American Society for Information Science by Wiley and available online to ASIS members and other registered users at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/. Also, reprinted in Hahn, T. B. & M. Buckland, eds. Historical Studies in Information Science. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1998, 215-220. This text may vary slightly from the published version. The Abstract reads: Ordinarily the word "document" denotes a textual record. Increasingly sophisticated attempts to provide access to the rapidly growing quantity of available documents raised questions about which should be considered a "document". The answer is important for any definition of the scope of Information Science. Paul Otlet and others developed a functional view of "document" and discussed whether, for example, sculpture, museum objects, and live animals, could be considered "documents". Suzanne Briet equated "document" with organized physical evidence. These ideas appear to resemble notions of "material culture" in cultural anthropology and "object-as-sign" in semiotics. Others, especially in the USA (e.g. Jesse Shera and Louis Shores) took a narrower view. New digital technology renews old questions and also old confusions between medium, message, and meaning.
Rights:
Copyright: Michael Buckland
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Article
Author: William Washbaugh
Title: Literature on Categorization
Location/Identifier: http://www.uwm.edu/People/wash/category.htm
Subject: Classification
Keyword: Classical categories; Prototypes; linguistic categories; Anthropology
Description: This essay by William Washbaugh includes two excerpts on classification and categorization from other disciplines. George Lakoff's book sets the stage by underscoring the overarching significance of categorization in human experience. The writings of Genvieve Calame-Griaule and Michel Foucault bear witness-often dramatically - to the diversity of human categorizing practices, and Stephen Asma makes it clear that some of this diversity has played a significant part in the shaping of that Western institution which, more than any other, implements our own cultural practice of categorization, the museum. The first excerpt is from George Lakoff's book, Women, Fire and Other Dangerous Things (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987) in which the classical view of categories as things with shared properties is questioned. Other exerpts are as follows: Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaelogy of the Human Sciences; C. Calame Graiule, Words and the Dogon World; Stephen Asma, Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums.
Rights:
Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Article
Author: Elizabeth R. Lorbeer
Title: Book reviews: Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/00-winter/review2.html
Subject: Classification
Keyword: Categories; Classification consequences; Bias in classification; Human behaviors related to classification
Description: This is a book review article issued in Science and Technology Librarianship, Winter 2000 issue. Sorting Things Out is a sociological work that explains how individuals sort perceived characteristics into categories and the consequences of those choices. The authors, George C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, describe how the use of classification influences human behavior towards standardizing the physical world using examples from the International Classification of Diseases and other discplinary or pragmatic classification schemes. Classification is described as the systematic categorization of entities into meaningful content. Selecting how the physical world is categorized is a human element dependent upon one's judgment, yet it also allows us to segregate undesirable qualities. The book is recommended for graduate and medical library collections.
Rights:
Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Article
Author: Erik Duval, Wayne Hodgins, Stuart Sutton, and Stuart Weibel
Title: Metadata Principles and Practicalities
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/weibel/04weibel.html
Subject: Metadata
Keyword: Metadata modularity; Information systems; Metadata schemas; Multilingualism; Syntax and semantics; Interoperability
Description: This is an ejournal article originally published in D-Lib Magazine, 8 (4). Metadata is viewed as a primary tool for work, and an important link in the value chain of knowledge economies. This paper discisses how metadata should be integrated into information systems. Principles and practicalities of metadata are discussed: principles are those concepts judged to be common to all domains of metadata and which might inform the design of any metadata schema or application; practicalities are the rules of thumb, constraints, and infrastructure issues that emerge from bringing theory into practice in the form of useful and sustainable systems.
Rights:
Copyright: 2002 Erik Duval, Wayne Hodgins, Stuart Sutton, and Stuart L. Weibel
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2002-02-00
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers; Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Article
Author: unknown
Title: Mining the Metadata Quarries
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Dec-02/ASISTDecJan.pdf
Subject: Metadata
Keyword: Metadata standards; Metadata generation
Description: This is a 31-page pdf file of the Bulletin of ASIST, v. 29, no. 3 (December/January 2003), a special issue on metadata, Guest Editor: Stuart Sutton. There are four (4) articles on metadata: Rebecca Guenther and Sally McCallum, New Metadata Standards for Digital Resources: MODS and METS; Jane Greenberg, Metadata Generation: Processes, Peoples, and Tools; Joseph Tennis, Data Collection for Controlled Vocabulary Interoperability: Dublin Core Audience Element; Jun Wang, A Knowledge Network Constructed by Integrating Classification, Thesaurus and Metadata in a Digital Library.
Rights:
Copyright: 2003 American Society for Information Science and Technology
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: 2003-00-00
Date of last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: Application/pdf
Educational Level: Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Essay
Author: Knowledge Management Connection
Title: What is Knowledge Management?
Location/Identifier: http://www.kmconnection.com/Knowledge_management_main.htm
Subject: Knowledge Management
Keyword: Classification; Intellectual assets; Information technology; Semantic networks
Description: This essay discusses the different perspectives of knowledge management (KM), and provides five suggestions to understand the term for a variety of loosely related practices, programs, and technologies.
Rights:
Copyright: unknown
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Essay
Author: Knowledge Management Connection
Title: Faceted Classification of Information
Location/Identifier: http://www.kmconnection.com/DOC100100.htm
Subject: Classification, Faceted
Keyword: Bibliographic classification
Description: This is an essay with excerpts from classical Library and Information Science texts such as Bohdan Wynar about faceted classification. A faceted classification differs from a traditional one in that it does not assign fixed slots to subjects in sequence, but uses clearly defined, mutually exclusive, and collectively exhaustive aspects, properties, or characteristics of a class or specific subject. It provides library and information science professionals the foundations of an alternative to traditional classification techniques.
Rights:
Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Essay
Author: none
Title: Markup Languages and Ontologies
Location/Identifier: http://www.semanticweb.org/knowmarkup.html
Subject: Ontology; Metadata
Keyword: XML; Semantics; Markup language
Description: Short notes on XML and semantics, electronic data interchange and e-commerce, ontologies, ontology editors and ontology interoperability help understand the distinctions between markup languages and ontologies. Introduces the conceptualization of ontology, and explores the publications, research groups and other resources about ontology in the short essay titled "What is ontology?"
Rights:
Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: 2003-00-00
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource:
Author: SearchTools.com
Title: Taxonomies, Categorization, Classification, Categories, and Directories for Searching
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.searchtools.com/info/classifiers.html
Subject: Information organization
Keyword: Subject analysis; Subject cataloging Description: This page is a part of the SearchTools.com site; it has definitions and collection of resources. According to this page, the terms taxonomy, ontology, directory, cataloging, categorization and classification are often confused and used interchangeably. These are all ways of organizing information (or things or animals) into categories.
Rights:
Copyright: 1998-2004 Avi Rappoport/Search Tools Consulting
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Essay
Author: Semantic Research Inc.
Title: Semantic Networks
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.semanticresearch. com/semantic/
Subject: Semantic networks,
Keyword: Knowledge visualization
Description: This site describes semantic networks, which are one form of knowledge structure; semantic networks embody the concepts, relationships, and instances that people carry around in their own heads.
The resource originally developed as an eLearning software application, SemNet has been used by students and educators representing over 44 colleges and universities world-wide and has proven to be one of the most effective visual learning tools available.
Rights:
Copyright: 2001-2004 Semantic Research Inc.
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Essay
Author: SemanticWeb
Title: What is ontology?
Location/Identifier:
URL: http://www.semanticweb.org/knowmarkup.html
Subject: Ontology
Keyword: Markup Language; Ontology
Description: This is a part of the XML and Markup Languages pages. Introduces the conceptualization of ontology, and povides links to the publications, research groups and other resources about ontology.
Rights:
Copyright: SemanticWeb.org
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2003-06-19
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Report
Author: Unknown
Title: Inventory of Metadata for Multimedia
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.surfnet.nl/innovatie/surfworks/doc/mmmetadata/
Subject: Metadata
Keyword: Standards; Multimedia
Description: An inventory of current standards, emerging standards, and some products serve as examples of current implementations in the area of metadata for standards for multimedia.
Rights:
Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2000-12-14
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Article
Author: National Information Standards Organization
Title: Understanding Metadata
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf
Subject: Metadata; Information storage and retrieval systems - Standards
Keyword: DC; TEI; METS; MODS; EAD; LOM
Description: Understanding Metadata presents overviews of metadata conventions. The content includes concept and function of metadata, the structure of metadata, metadata schemes and element sets, creating metadata, interoperability and exchange of metadata.
Rights:
Copyright: 2004 National Information Standards Organization
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: Application/pdf
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Essay
Author: Jakob Nielsen
Title: useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.useit.com/ Subject: Web usage; Educational Web sites
Keyword: Web usability; Web design
Description: Jakob Nielsen is the foremost usability expert, and this website is Jakob's writings on Web usability arranged in categories: Alertbox, Reports, Books, News, etc.
Rights:
Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Bibliographic Classification - MACE Web Clearinghouse

Type of Resource: Bibliographic Classification
Author: OCLC
Title: WebDewey
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.oclc.org/dewey/
Subject: Dewey Decimal Classification
Keyword: DDC
Description: The electronic, WebDewey, is an iinteractive service available by subscription (and free to LIS schools in the OCLC Education program, although a logon is still required) through OCLC Connexion. It provides access to the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme, which is available through this service electronically or as a print product. The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system is the world's most widely used library classification system. The 22nd edition of DDC comes in several convenient formats. The four-volume print edition includes thousands of updates added to the system over the past seven years. The electronic version, WebDewey, enhances the print updates with online delivery that is updated continuously. And the Abridged Edition 14, also available in print and online, is a simplified version perfect for smaller collections.
Rights:
Copyright: OCLC
Access: By subscription;
Date of creation and last modification: 2004-00-00
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Bibliographic Classification
Author: Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Title: Library of Congress Classification Outline
Location/Identifier: URL: - URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html
Subject: Classification
Keyword: LC Outline
Description: The Library of Congress Classification Outline of main classes (below) are each linked to the sub-class as an Adobe pdf file.
A -- GENERAL WORKS; B -- PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGY. RELIGION; C -- AUXILIARY SCIENCES OF HISTORY; D -- HISTORY (GENERAL) AND HISTORY OF EUROPE; E -- HISTORY: AMERICA; F -- HISTORY: AMERICA; G -- GEOGRAPHY. ANTHROPOLOGY. RECREATION; H -- SOCIAL SCIENCES; J -- POLITICAL SCIENCE; K -- LAW; L -- EDUCATION; M -- MUSIC AND BOOKS ON MUSIC; N -- FINE ARTS; P -- LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE; Q -- SCIENCE; R -- MEDICINE; S -- AGRICULTURE; T -- TECHNOLOGY; U -- MILITARY SCIENCE; V -- NAVAL SCIENCE; Z -- BIBLIOGRAPHY. LIBRARY SCIENCE. INFORMATION RESOURCES (GENERAL). Also available as WordPerfect 8 files for downloading.
Rights:
Copyright: � Library of Congress
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html; Application/pdf;
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Bibliographic Classification
Author: Library of Congress
Title: Classification Web
Location/Identifier: URL: http://classweb.loc.gov/
Subject: Library of Congress Classification
Keyword: LCC
Description: This interactive service is by subscription. It provides access to the Library of Congress Subject Headings and the Library of Congress Classification Scheme. There is a Quick Start Tutorial for this resource at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/classwebtutorial/1intro.html. The Library of Congress Classification Schedules A-Z (A - B-BJ - BL-BQ - BR-BX - C - D-DR - DS-DX - E-F - G - G Tables - H - J - K - K Tables - KB - KD - KDZ, KG-KH - KE - KF - KJ-KKZ - KJV-KJW - KK-KKC - KL-KWX - KZ - L - M - N - P-PZ Tables - P-PA - PB-PH - PJ-PK - PL-PM - PN - PQ - PR-PS,PZ - PT - Q - R - S - T - U-V - Z ) are available through this service electronically or as a print product.
Rights:
Copyright: Library of Congress; For details, see Legal Agreements, http://classweb.loc.gov/legal.html
Access: By subscription; See How To Subscribe, http://www.loc.gov/cds/classweb/
Date of creation and last modification: 2004-09-09
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Bibliographic Classification
Author: National Library of Medicine (US)
Title: National Library of Medicine (NLM) Classification
Location/Identifier: URL: http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/class/
Subject: Classification, Medical sciences
Keyword: NLM Classification, Medicine and related sciences
Description: A product of the National Library of Medicine for the arrangement of library materials in the field of medicine and related sciences used internationally; available as a free electronic service/database.
Rights:
Copyright: Public domain
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Data of last modification: 2004-04-15
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Bibliography - MACE Web Clearinghouse

This includes bibliographies, reading lists, webliographies, and personal websites and it is arranged in two sections: Sample Bibliographies and LIS Bibliographies/Resources. Use this as a resource to demonstrate types of bibliographies and their arrangements (annotated, chronological, descriptive, etc.) as well as a source of bibliographies and readings lists on topics relevant to MACE.

Sample Bibliographies:

Type of Resource: Bibliography
Author: Alf-Christian Achilles
Title: The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
Location/Identifier: http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/
Subject: Information resources, Computer science--Bibliography
Keyword: Compiler Technology, Programming Languages and Type Theory, Distributed Systems, Networking and Telecommunications, Database Research, Operating Systems, Parallel Processing, Software Engineering and Formal Methods.
Description: This is an oft-cited example of evolutionary electronic bibliographies. It is a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science. The bibliographies are updated monthly from their original locations. The collection currently contains more than 1.4 million references (mostly to journal articles, conference papers and technical reports), clustered in about 1400 bibliographies, and consists of 660 MBytes of BibTeX entries. More than 19,000 references contain cross-references to citing or cited publications. More than 240,000 references contain URLs to an online version of the paper. Abstracts are available for more than 180,000 entries. There are more than 2000 links to other sites carrying bibliographic information
Rights:
Copyright: � 1995-2004 Alf-Christian Achilles
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Bibliography
Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr
Title: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Location/Identifier: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/34/sepb.html
Subject: Scholarly electronic publishing
Keyword: Internet, Networks, Cataloging, Identifiers, Metadata, Digital Libraries, Information Conversion, Integrity, , Preservation, Intellectual Property Rights, License Agreements, Electronic Serials
Description: The SEPB is available in a number of formats and it can also be downloaded in full. It includes selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts organized under the following broad categories: Economic Issues (Last update: 10/26/2004); Electronic Books and Texts; Electronic Serials; General Works (Last update: 10/26/2004); Library Issues (Last update: 10/26/2004); New Publishing Models; Publisher Issues; Repositories, E-prints, and OAI (Last update: 10/26/2004). Related bibliographies are also listed in a separate section. Most of the resources have been published after1990; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are available via the Internet. This bibliography is not annotated.
Rights:
Copyright: � 1996-2000 by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: unknown
Date of last modification: 2000-12-01
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Webliography
Author: Kevin Berland
Title: Selected Readings
Location/Identifier: http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/sr/sr.htm
Subject: Information resources, Bibliography, Electronic reference sources
Keyword: 18th century studies, journals
Description: C18-L, Resources for 18th century studies across the disciplines is a very interesting one as the bibliographer(s) tries to gather resources from many different disciplines on this topic. Selected Readings is an interdisciplinary bibliography of eighteenth-century studies, covering as many topics in as many areas as we can manage. SR comprehensively covers the so-called "long 18th century," which means roughly 1660-1830, though these time boundaries are almost as arbitrary as centuries, which are in fact pretty darned arbitrary, aren't they?.
Rights:
Copyright: N/A (unknown)
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: March,1998
Date of last modification: 9/19/2004
Format of Resource: html
Educational Level:

Type of Resource: Webliography
Author: Keith Instone
Title: Usable Web
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.usableweb.com/
Subject: Web sites , Electronic information resources
Keyword: Information architecture, Human factors, User interface
Description: Usable Web is a stale (never updated anymore) collection of links about information architecture, human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web. It provides some examples of where web design has been in the past and an example of collections of "just links."
Rights:
Copyright: 1995-2004 Usable Web
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: General

Type of Resource: Bibliography
Author: NLM
Title: NLM Resource Lists and Bibliographies: Current Bibliographies in Medicine (CBM)
Location/Identifier: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/resources.html.
Subject: Bibliography, Electronic reference sources, Information resources, Medicine
Keyword: Bibliographies in Medicine, biomedicine,
Description: National Library of Medicine makes bibliographies in Medicine from 1992 until the present available; each bibliography in this series covers a distinct subject area of biomedicine of current popular interest. Most are prepared in support of a specific National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference, for each of which a Consensus Development Statement is also available. Beginning with the 2000 CBMs, two formats are offered: HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Portable Document Format (PDF).
Rights:
Copyright: Public domain
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: 2003-02-12
Date of last modification: 2004-05-12
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Bibliography
Author: NCSU Libraries, Compiler
Title: US Congressional Bibliographies
Location/Identifier: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/senatebibs/
Subject: Bibliography, National--United States, Electronic reference sources
Keyword: Congressional Record, Daily Digest, U.S. Senate Library
Description: The U.S. Congressional Bibliographies enumerate and describe meetings held by Congressional committees since 1985, those for which printed transcripts are issued, and those that remain unprinted. Its sources are the Congressional Record's "Daily Digest" and bibliographic information supplied by the U.S. Senate Library. Its primary goal is to be an authoritative, exhaustive reference source of meetings held and documents released by House and Senate committees.
Rights:
Copyright: The NCSU Libraries logo and the NC State logotype are copyrighted/trademarked. Redistribution or commercial use is prohibited without express written permission.
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: unknown
Date of last modification: 2003-12-09
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Bibliography
Author: University of California at Berkeley Libraries
Title: Film Bibliographies
Location/Identifier: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/FilmBibMenu.html
Subject: Bibliography, Electronic reference sources, Information resources, Film archives
Keyword: Film Topics and Themes, topical bibliographies
Description: An interesting set of subject or topical bibliographies on films from the Media Reosurces Center, Moffit Library, University of California at Berkeley.There are bibliographies on: miscellaneous film topics and themes; fil genres; fil makers; national cinemas; and individual films/videos.
Rights:
Copyright: � 1996 Library, University of California, Berkeley
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-08-04
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Bibliography
Author: None
Title: A Mystical Unicorn: Author Bibliographies
Location/Identifier: http://www.myunicorn.com/biblios.html
Subject: Literary authors
Keyword: Pseudonyms
Description: A Mystical Unicorn: Author Bibliographies has currently over 5000 author bibliographies, but these are very basic (author-title-year only). Not the sort of bibliography we want to prepare in libraries. The Mystical Unicorn is an online used bookstore.
Rights:
Copyright: � 2003
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification : Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

LIS Bibliographies

Type of Resource: Bibliography
Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Title: Cataloguing, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata
Location/Identifier: URL: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/lbcat.htm
Subject: Cataloging
Keyword: Cataloguing, Identifier Linking, Metadata
Description: This is a part (Section 6.1) of Charles Bailey�s "Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography� (SEPB). The SEPB is available in a number of formats and it can also be downloaded in full. It includes selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts organized under the following broad categories: Economic Issues (Last update: 10/26/2004); Electronic Books and Texts; Electronic Serials; General Works (Last update: 10/26/2004); Library Issues (Last update: 10/26/2004); New Publishing Models; Publisher Issues; Repositories, E-prints, and OAI (Last update: 10/26/2004). Related bibliographies are also listed in a separate section. Most of the resources have been published after1990; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are available via the Internet. This bibliography is not annotated.
Rights:
Copyright: unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation last modification: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-10-26
Format of Resource: text/htm/
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates; Metadata Catalogers; Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Bibliography
Author: Anita S. Coleman
Title: Information Seeking Behaviors Bibliography
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~asc/isbbib.html
Subject: Bibliography, Reading (Primary)--Direct instruction approach
Keyword: Information needs, Information uses , Information seeking, Information behaviors
Description: Information Seeking Behaviors Bibliography includes citations in the area of information needs, uses and context.
Rights:
Copyright: � Anita S. Coleman
Access: Freely available
Date of creation: 2000-02-06
Date of last modification: 2001-10-29
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Unit (of Instruction)
Author: Anita S. Coleman
Title: 2004 - Knowledge Structures Toolbox
Location/Identifier:
URL: http://radio.weblogs.com/0109575/stories/2004/09/07/2004KnowledgeStructuresToolbox.html
Subject: Teaching--Aids and devices; Information organization
Keyword: Knowledge Structures, Semantic Networks, Classification schemes, Thesauri, Information Discovery and Retrieval, Metadata, Standards, Classification, Controlled Vocabularies(Vocabulary Control), Authority Control, Ontologies, Lexical Databases, Information Architecture, Thesaurus Construction, Information Science, Anita S. Coleman
Description: This tollbox tries to bring together various tools used in the courses that make up the specialization in Knowledge organization at SIRLS, University of Arizona. Knowledge organization includes (in alphabetical order) the following areas of study: Bibliography, Cataloging, Classification, Controlled Vocabularies, Databases, Indexing, Metadata, Natural Language Processing, Ontologies. Knowledge representation, knowledge management, knowledge visualization can also be considered a part of knowledge organization. The 2004 Knowledge Structures Toolbox is a very different organizational structure with the original Knowledge Structures Toolbox, which is available from http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/archive/00000182/. The Toolbox is meant to be used in conjunction with Arlene Taylor's The Organization of Information, 2nd edition and the Coleman syllabus for IRLS 401/501.
Rights:
Copyright: � 2004 Anita S. Coleman.
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-09-20
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Webliography
Author: Michael Day and Andy Powell
Title: UKOLN Metadata
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/
Subject: Metadata
Keyword: UKOLN, Metadata resources, Mapping between metadata formats
Description: The site describes the activities of the UK Office of Library Networking Metadata Group, and provides links to other resources. Includes a section on Mapping between Metadata Formats, and a collection of Presentations, including many tutorials. It can be used as supplemental material for teaching metadata.
Rights:
Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2003-09-23
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Reading Lists
Author: Susan Klement
Title: Subject Analysis � Portals: Indexing and Abstracting: Selected Information Resources
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.sir.arizona.edu/fl02/588b/biblio.html
Subject: Indexing
Keyword: Information architecture
Description: A collection of resources supporting a course taught by Susan Klement in the library and information science program at the University of Arizona.
It can be used for teaching the issues in information resource: Indexing and Abstracting.
Rights:
Copyright: � Susan Klement
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2002-09-11
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Webliography
Author: Michael Middleton
Title: Controlled Vocabularies
Location/Identifier: URL: http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~middletm/cont_voc.html
Subject: Classification, Subject headings
Keyword: Bibliography, Classification schemes, Databases of thesauri, Thesaurus building
Description: This page provides links to examples of thesauri and to classification schemes that may be used for controlling database or WWW site subject content. It also provides links to descriptive and critical material about such metainformation.
Rights:
Copyright: � by MM 2004
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-06-01
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Bibliography
Author: Steve J. Miller
Title: Metadata and Cataloging Online Resources: Selected Reference Documents, Web Sites, and Articles (not a comprehensive bibliography)
Location/Identifier: http://www.uwm.edu/~mll/resource.html
Subject: Metadata, International Standard Bibliographic Description for Electronic Resources
Keyword: AACR, MARC, Metadata standards, Standards and guidelines
Description: A collection of metadata and cataloging online resources. It includes selected documents, websites, and articles. Resources are organized under sections such as Metadata, Introduction to Metadata for Librarians, Major Metadata Standards Websites, Cataloging Online Resources Using AACR2R and MARC, Current and Future Developments, and Learning Resources.
Rights:
Copyright: unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2003-06-12
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Webliography
Author: Mary Sue Stephenson
Title: WWW Indexing Resources
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.slais.ubc.ca/resources/indexing/index.htm
Subject: Indexing
Keyword: database indexing, Indexers, Indexing software
Description: This is a bookmark collection and sections include indexing in special settings (including archives, books, databases, and the Web), and indexing software. There is also a collection of links to ruminations about the profession by practitioners (Indexers).
Rights:
Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-08-22
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Webliography
Author: Candy Schwartz
Title: Web Home of Candy Schwartz: Site Contents
Location/Identifier: URL: http://web.simmons.edu/~schwartz/
Subject: Teaching--Aids and devices, Information science
Keyword: Organization of knowledge, Subject analysis, Digital libraries, Metadata
Description: The site contents include Candy�s courses at Simmons University, reference resource, and a net resource collection on digital library, metadata, search engines, subject analysis, and library Web authoring in the library and information science.
Rights:
Copyright: � Candy Schwartz
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: N/A (unknown)
Date of last modification: 4/12/2004
Format of Resource: html
Educational Level: All LIS graduates

Type of Resource: Bibliography
Author: Arlene G. Taylor
Title: Bibliography for LIS 2001, Organizing Information
Location/Identifier: http://www.pitt.edu/~agtaylor/courses/bib.html
Subject: Information organization
Keyword:
Description: This is a bibliography arranged by books (which have call numbers), articles and web resources. This is meant to supplement the course taught in this area by Taylor at Pitt.
Rights:
Copyright: � Arlene G. Taylor
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2003-08-23
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Website
Author: Arlene G. Taylor
Title: Arlene G. Taylor Home Page
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~agtaylor/index.html
Subject: Teaching--Aids and devices, Information science
Keyword: syllabus, publication, Arlene G. Taylor
Description: Arlene G. Taylor Home page includes her personal information, publication, course syllabus, and other documentation of the interest.
Rights:
Copyright: � 1996-2004 Arlene G. Taylor
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: Application/MS-PowerPoint
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Bibliography
Author: Willpower Information
Title: Publications on thesaurus construction and use
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.willpower.demon.co.uk/thesbibl.htm
Subject: Thesauri (Controlled vocabularies)
Keyword: Thesaurus construction, Facet analysis, Taxonomies, Ontologies, Information retrieval thesauri
Description: This list of publications on thesaurus construction and use includes some references to facet analysis, taxonomies, ontologies, topic maps and related issues. This is a list of printed and electronic publications about the principles of constructing and using information retrieval thesauri. It is not a list of existing thesauri, although some thesauri have been included when they are good examples or illustrate the results of different approaches to thesaurus construction.
Rights:
Copyright: � Willpower Information, 2004.
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-11-10
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Community - MACE Web Clearinghouse

Communities include professional associations, standards organizations, initiatives, and LIS schools that those interested can join and participate in various categories: Archivists, Catalogers, Classifiers and Classificationists, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, Indexers, Information Architects, Information Scientists and Librarians, specialized communities, LIS schools, Human Computer Interaction/Usability, and Semantic Web aficionados..

Archivists
Type of Resource: Community (website)
Author: The Society of American Archivists (SAA)
Title: The Society of American Archivists
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.archivists.org/
Subject: Information organization
Keyword: Archives, Training, Education, Career
Description: The Society of American Archivists is North America's oldest and largest national archival professional association. SAA's mission is to serve the educational and informational needs of more than 3,200 individual and institutional members and to provide leadership to ensure the identification, preservation, and use of records of historical value.
Rights:
Copyright: � 2003 SAA
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Information Architects
Type of Resource: Community (website)
Author: Argus Associates
Title: Argus Center for Information Architecture (ACIA)
Location/Identifier: http://argus-acia.com/
Subject: Information organization
Keyword: Synonyms, Taxonomies, Information Architecture, Software,
Description: This is an inactive community. Argus Associates was the first company in the area of Information Architecture; the company unfortunately closed in 2001, but their website for the Argus Center for Information Architecture is still a good source for excellent resources in this area. Resources range from papers about the design of thesauri for information architects to pointers to listservs of interest and professional associations for this group.
Rights:
Copyright: � 2000 Argus Association
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Dublin Core Metadata
Type of Resource: Community
Author: DCMI
Title: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Location/Identifier: URL: http://dublincore.org/
Subject: Metadata; Dublin Core
Keyword: electronci resources cataloging; digital resources organization
Description: This is an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards, primarily the DC, to support a broad range of purposes and business models.
Rights:
Copyright: � 1995-2004 DCMI
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Information Scientists, Librarians
Type of Resource: Community
Author: NIST
Title: The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC),
Location/Identifier: URL: http://trec.nist.gov/
Subject: Information retrieval , Information storage and retrieval systems , Data structures (Computer science)
Keyword: Accuracy Retrieval, Structural Information
Description: This site is to support research within the information retrieval community by providing the infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of text retrieval methodologies.
It is can be used for teaching information retrieval from large text collections.
Rights:
Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: 2000-08-01
Date of last modification: 2004-05-28
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Architects

Catalogers, Classifiers and Classificationists
Type of Resource: Documentation
Author: The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS)
Title: ALCTS
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.ala.org/alcts/
Subject: Technical Services
Keyword: Library collections, Technical services, Activities, Acquisition, Cataloging, Classification, Preservation
Description: The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services is responsible for the following activities: acquisition, identification, cataloging, classification, and preservation of library materials; the development and coordination of the country's library resources; and those areas of selection and evaluation involved in the acquisition of library materials and pertinent to the development of library resources.
Rights:
Copyright: � 2004, American Library Association.
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: N/A (unknown)
Date of and last modification: 11/1/2004
Format of Resource: html
Educational Level:

Catalogers, Information Scientists, Librarians
Type of Resource: Community (website)
Author: IFLA
Title: IFLA: Cataloguing Section
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/index.htm
Subject: Cataloging
Keyword: FRBR, ISBD, Bibliography, Classification and Indexing, Information Technology
Description: The Cataloguing Section analyzes the function of cataloguing activities for all types of material and media, including both bibliographic and authority information, for the benefit of all users. It proposes and develops cataloguing rules, guidelines and standards for bibliographic information in an electronic and networked environment to promote universal access to and exchange of bibliographic and authority information. The Section has close relationships with many organizations and institutions including national cataloguing and standardization committees, various multinational organizations, various committees of ISO, especially with TC46, with the Sections on Bibliography, Classification and Indexing, and Information Technology, and in particular with ICABS (IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards). IFLA is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession and is at http://www.ifla.org/. Many publications are available for free download at this website on topics such as FRBR and ISBD.
Rights:
Copyright: � International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-08-13
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Community (website)
Author: ASI
Title: American Society of Indexers
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.asindexing.org/site/index.html
Subject: Indexing
Keyword: Classification, Information Technology
Description: ASI bills itself as the only professional organization in the United States devoted solely to the advancement of indexing, abstracting, and database building. The website has lots of information such as a faq on What is Indexing? and sample indexing agreement that free-lance indexers can use with clients.
Rights:
Copyright: � ASI
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadta Architects

Specialized communities
Type of Resource: Community (website)
Author: Unknown
Title: Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
Location/Identifier: http://www.amico.org/join/members.html
Subject: Associations, institutions, etc. Art museums--Collection management, Art museums--Educational aspects, Multimedia (Art)
Keyword: Online multimedia, Collections of art, Art galleries and museums
Description: A not-for-profit organization of institutions with collections of art and they collaborate to enable the educational use of online multimedia. The collections of AMICO members (art galleries and museums) are searchable through the AMICO library. Try searching their Thumbnail Catalog, http://search.amico.org/amico/apw/search/. If you prefer to go to the individual galleries listed above, you will notice that art galleries/museums' "collections" are searchable. Try searching the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, http://americanart.si.edu/search/search_artworks.cfm.
Rights:
Copyright: � Art Museum Image Consortium
Access: Restricted to Members only, some resources freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: N/A (unknown)
Format of Resource: html
Educational Level:

Type of Resource: Community (website)
Author: Music Library Association
Title: Music Library Association
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/
Subject: Special libraries
Keyword: Music librarianship, Music materials
Description: Founded in 1931, MLA is the professional organization in the United States devoted to music librarianship and all aspects of music materials in libraries.
Rights:
Copyright: � 1998-2004 Music Library Association
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Community (website)
Author: NISO
Title: National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.niso.org/
Subject: Associations, institutions, etc. Standards
Keyword: Information Retrieval, National standards, Z39.19, Z39.50, Z39.85
Description: NISO, a non-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage information in our changing and ever-more digital environment. NISO standards apply both traditional and new technologies to the full range of information-related needs, including retrieval, re-purposing, storage, metadata, and preservation. NISO has developed and approved 32 national standards; 8 standards are in the development pipeline. All NISO standards undergo a review and maintenance cycle. The full-text of standards such as Z39.19, Z39.50, and Z39.85 can be downloaded from the website (see index of standards for complete list of standards).
Rights:
Copyright: � 2004 National Information Standards Organization
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html

Type of Resource: Community (website)
Author: ISO
Title: International organization for Standardization (ISO)
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.openerpage
Subject: Standards
Keyword: international standards
Description: ISO. A network of national standards institutes from 146 countries working in partnership with international organizations, governments, industry, business and consumer representatives. A bridge between public and private sectors. The source of ISO 9000, ISO 14000 and more than 14 000 International Standards for business, government and society.
Rights:
Copyright: � ISO
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2004-02-16
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Community (website)
Author: UDC Consortium
Title: Universal Decimal Classification Consortium
Location/Identifier: http://www.udcc.org/
Subject: Classification
Keyword: Classification in Europe
Description: The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool. It is a highly flexible and effective system for organizing bibliographic records for all kinds of information in any medium (it is well suited to multi-media information collections).
Rights:
Copyright: � UDC Consortium
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

LIS Schools
Type of Resource: Community (website)
Author: Lis.OCLC.org
Title: Schools in the OCLC LIS Education Program
Location/Identifier: http://lis.oclc.org/learning/schools/index.htm
Subject: Library schools
Keyword: LIS schools, Distance learning, OCLC institute. Learning program
Description: A complete list of LIS institutions participating in the OCLC education program.
Rights:
Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: N/A

HCI
Type of Resource: Community
Author: Unknown
Title: ACM SIGCHI
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/
Subject: Human Computer Interaction
Keyword: human factors in system design
Description: ACM SIGCHI, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, brings together people working on the design, evaluation, implementation, and study of interactive computing systems for human use. ACM SIGCHI provides an international, interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas about the field of human-computer interaction (HCI).
Rights:
Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Semantic Web
Type of Resource: Community
Author: None
Title: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.w3.org/
Subject: Semantic web; Document markup languages, Computer software
Keyword: web usability;
Description: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding. On this page, you'll find W3C news, links to W3C technologies and ways to get involved. New visitors can find help in Finding Your Way at W3C. It is also a good source for standards such as HTML, XML, RDF, and new web-related standards coinciding with Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the next generation of the web, called the Semantic Web.
Rights:
Copyright: � 1994-2004 W3C
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: 1994-10-00
Date of last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Crosswalk - MACE Web Clearinghouse

Type of Resource: Crosswalk
Author: Alexandria Web Team
Title: Crosswalks from the Alexandria Metadata Schema to Other Schemas
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/public-documents/metadata/crosswalks.html
Subject: Metadata
Keyword: Geo-spatial metadata
Description: The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) provides four crosswalks between 1) ADL to FGDC, 2) ADL to FGDC to USMARC to GILS Elements, 3) FGDC to USMARC, and 4) USMARC to FGDC.
Rights:
Copyright: Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 1997-01-24
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers; Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Crosswalk
Author: Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress
Title: Dublin Core/MARC/GILS Crosswalk
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.loc.gov/marc/dccross.html
Subject: Metadata
Keyword: Dublin Core; DC; MARC 21; GILS
Description: The fifteen elements in the Dublin Core metadata set and MARC 21 bibliographic data elements. In addition, it includes a crosswalk from Dublin Core to GILS attributes. In the Dublin Core to MARC 21 mapping, two mappings are provided, one for unqualified Dublin and the other for unqualified Dublin Core elements; but, each Dublin Core element maps to a single MARC field.
Rights:
Copyright: �Library of Congress
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: 2001-02-00
Date of last modification: 2002-12-31
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Crosswalk
Author: Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress
Title: MARC to Dub,in Core Crosswalk
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.loc.gov/marc/marc2dc.html
Subject: Metadata
Keyword: Dublin Core; DC; MARC 21;
Description: This is a crosswalk between core MARC 21 bibliographic data elements and elements in the Dublin Core metadata set . It differs from the Dublin Core/MARC Crosswalk in that multiple MARC fields are mapped to a Dublin Core element.
Rights:
Copyright: � Library of Congress
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: 2001-02-00
Date of last modification: 2002-12-31
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates;

Digital Library - MACE Web Clearinghouse

Digital libraries, virtual libraries, and digital repositories such as eprint archives, disciplinary repositories and institutional repositories are included here.

Type of Resource: Digital Library
Author: Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief
Title: The Perseus Digital Library
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Subject: Library
Keyword: Classics digital library;
Description: Perseus is an evolving digital library for the humanities; it's collections include Classics, primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome; Papyri, non-literary papyri from the Ptolemic and Roman periods; English Renaiisance, primary and secondary sources in early modern English literature; London Bolles collection, on the history of London from its founding to the 19th century; Library of Congress American Memory collections on California and Upper Midwest Chesapeake region, books on California and the Upper Midwest Chesapeake region; Boyle papers, his work diaries; and Tufts history. Full-text dictionaries and encyclopedias are also available as are classical texts like the Illiad. The Perseus Lookup Tool, a map to the contents of the library, is the beginner's way often used to find something in the library.
Rights:
Copyright: The Trustees of Tufts College
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Type of Resource: Digital Library
Author: Anita Coleman and Cheryl Malone, Editors
Title: Digital Library for Information Science and Technology
Location/Identifier: URL: http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/
Subject: Library
Keyword: Eprints repository; Open access archive; Library and Information Science information commons; Digital library
Description: DLIST is the Digital Library for Information Science and Technology, an Open Access Archive (OAA), a cross-institutional repository of full-text electronic resources in the domains of Library and Information Science (LIS) and Information Technology (IT). DLIST is based on free software. At its core is the Eprints 2.2 package developed at the University of Southampton, UK. Eprints requires the Linux operating system; the Apache web server with mod_perl, the Perl programming language with a handful of extra modules, and the MySQL database system. Another open source software, Webalizer is used to analyze and prepare DLIST usage reports. Eprints software is generally used to build institutional or discipline repositories of scholarship, the outputs of research such as journal articles, technical reports, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, and books. Whole journals, books, and conference proceedings or their components such as individual chapters, and articles can be deposited into a web-accessible digital storage system and described using a database form
Rights:
Copyright: DLIST
Access: Freely available
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Documentation- MACE Web Clearinghouse

Type of Resource: Documentation
Author: OCLC
Title: Bibliographic Formats and Standards, 3rd edition
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/default.htm
Subject: Cataloging
Keyword: OCLC Cataloging
Description: Bibliographic Formats and Standards is a guide to machine-readable cataloging records in WorldCat (the OCLC� Online Union Catalog). It provides tagging conventions, input standards and guidelines for entering information into WorldCat. Biblographic Formats and Standards assumes you are familiar with Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, second edition, 1998 Revision, and other standard cataloging reference material. Some sections also assume you have a general knowledge of data processing and databases."Also available in pdf format.
Rights:
Copyright: � 2004 OCLC Online Computer library Center
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2003-11-00
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Documentation
Author: RLG
Title: RLG Technical Note: ow MARC 21 Updates 2 and 3 affect the RLG Union Catalog:
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.rlg.org/marcupdate02.html
Subject: Descriptive cataloging
Keyword: MARC, Union Catalog
Description: The note is a summary of changes made by certain elements in the MARC updates which may affect importing and exporting MARC bibliographic and authority records.
Rights:
Copyright: � 2004 RLG
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation: Unknown
Date of last modification: 2002-12-16
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers

Type of Resource: Documentation
Author:
Title: Cataloger's Reference Shelf
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/
Subject: Cross references (Information retrieval)
Keyword: MARC, Reference manuals, Subject Cataloging Manuals
Description: The Cataloger's Reference Shelf, a component of the help systems in ITS for Windows and the Library.Solution integrated online library system, is published in web format and is available for free use by any cataloger with a web browser. The CRS is based on 21 MARC manuals and other reference works published by The Library of Congress and frequently accessed by technical services staff. It provides a list of descriptive and subject cataloging manuals, principles, and full-text access to many of the tools used in traditional library cataloging. These include: MARC 21 Bibliographic, MARC 21 for Authority Data, US MARC Format for Classification, MARC Holdings, MARC Code Lists, MARC Relators List, Archival Moving Image Materials - A Cataloging Manual, Cataloging Rules for the Description of Looseleaf Publications, Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books, 2nd edition, Library of Congress Rule Interpretations (LCRI), LC Classification Outline, Subject Cataloging Manual (Classification), LC Cutters, Map Cataloging, NACO, CONSER Editing Guide, and more.
Rights:
Copyright: �
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: All LIS Graduates

Guide - MACE Web Clearinghouse

Guides, tutorials, and documentation are listed here.

Documentation
Type of Resource: Documentation
Author: American Library Association (ALA), Canadian Library Association (CLA), and Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), Publishers
Title: AACR2 Web Site
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.aacr2.org/
Subject: AACR2
Keyword: Cataloging rules
Description: This is the home page of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR). It is a good online source for ordering AACR2 and allied product information. The JSC hyperlink will take readers to the JOint Steering Committee web pages, http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/index.html. The Rules are maintained by the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR.
Rights:
Copyright: � Unknown
Access: Freely available.
Date of creation and last modification: Unknown
Format of Resource: text/html
Educational Level: Metadata Catalogers; Metadata Architects

Type of Resource: Documentation
Author: National Library of Canada
Title: AACR - Rule Interpretations
Location/Identifier: URL: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/6/18/index-e.html
Subject: AACR2R
Keyword: Descriptive cataloging
Description: These rule interpretations of the Anglo