1. Non Western Cataloging LIS 653-03 Knowledge Organization
Korean Cataloging: Strategies
Middle Eastern Cataloging : and Solutions
Timothy R Fischer Allison Grillo
Cataloging across this region is faced Many institutions in Korea use
with the challenge of representing the Korean Decimal System,
languages unrelated to the Indo- which was created after adopting
European languages of the Western Dewey Decimal System; the two
world. Modern cataloging systems are very similar.
are western in origin must be adapted
to languages such as Arabic, which Due to the complexity and
are literally written backwards in occasional ambiguity of both the
relation to English. The lack of Korean language and its script,
modern cataloging well into the 20th Hangul, Korean libraries have
century led to adoption broad instituted unique qualities in
adoption of adapted AACR2, Library their classification systems.
of Congress and Dewey Decimal
System rules.
Cataloging Materials Relating to
JAPAN/MARC: Cataloguing in Indigenous Peoples
Japanese
Joan Markey
Elizabeth Beller
Both the Dewey Decimal System and the
JAPAN/MARC format following Library of Congress Classification System
the Nippon Cataloging Rule use classification schemes based on Western
convention uses a Description philosophy. Neither is well-suited to
Independent System or DIS. classifying indigenous materials. In the late
Fields for author, title, and 1960s and early 1970s, a few classification
subject allow for three values; one schemes were developed for these materials.
for mixed kanji & kana scripts, The introduction of the OCLC created a
one for katakana and one for barrier to such schemes because the
Romanized letters or Romanji. A materials classified by the use of other
combination of 1 byte and 2 byte schemes could not be easily integrated into
scripts are employed in encoding it. As a result, there has been a change in
JAPAN/MARC. emphasis towards developing additional
local subject heading lists and thesauri .
2. Libraries Museums
Tagging Art & Cultural Objects: A Fable
Folksonomies
Found in public &
academic libraries
OPAC Enhancements
• Tags
• Reviews Tags provide highly detailed The associations users make
• Recommendations lists of what is depicted: have personal meaning:
• Other Editions tail
belly leg pipe wall rope
tusk ear pillar
trunk fan tree branch
But they may miss the elephant in the room.
What’s in the picture
Social discovery system used by Folksonomies, Controlled isn’t always what it’s about.
Vocabularies, and
Ganesha knows there are Cultural Heritage Using geographic
difficult times ahead for some.
He protects them with his location tags to:
Ganesha holds the Using tags to increase access • Connect
axe, or parashu, in gentle
dagger, or chhuri, ways from evils they have
keenly sharp, likened and promote learning • Share
to the "razor's edge," attracted.
• Learn
the narrow, difficult
path the spiritual • Discover
aspirant must walk. • Remember
• Be heard
Ganesha prepares to Caitlyn Marino Jeff Edelstein Raises questions…
throw his lotus in order Valerie Livingston Jordan deButts Is there a limit?
to kill the demon of
egotism who had LIS 653-03 Knowledge Organization Where is the line between
attacked him. Unable to Spring 2012 public and private?
bear the fragrance of the
divine flower, the Ganesha, Lord
demon surrenders. of Auspicious Beginnings Geotagged voice notes
Controlled Vocabularies Geotagging
3. An Examination of Digital Museum Collections:
Enhancing and Expanding the Information Seeking Experience
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s recent webpage redesign in 2009 sets a new standard for the
digitization, organization and display of art history materials. By assimilating primary source ob-
jects with secondary reference resources, it creates an experience that merges a museum visit with a
library of research. Social networking, tagging and interactive features make this website a leading
resource in the field and is setting the new standard for all digital museum collections.
The Baroque Wall-Libary System Bridging the Gap Between Museums and the Solid Foundation and Strong
Philosophy Applied to Museum Digital Community Community: From Seattle to D.C.
Collections by Bess Goden by Alma Lemburg by Jesse Brauner
The Met Museum has been involved in
- The Baroque wall-library system was orga- projects to bring the community into their - Technology allows musuems to expand and
nized in such a way that the learned user of collections and into art in general. Digital display their collections to a wide audience
the time would be able to find the book of museums greatest challenge is finding a way -In order to use that technology effectively, the
their subject, as the books were arranged in to bridge the gap between scholars and its’ system being created must be based on estab-
community. The Met has been used as an lished organizational principles
the ‘natural order of subjects’, placed in de-
example in a few different studies having to -Information technology advancements have
scending importance from left to right. offered museums many new opportunities , i.e.
- Similarly the Met website mirrors the expe- do with digital museums, such as the steve.
-The Experience Music Project (EMP, Seattle,
diency of this system through the variety of museum tagging project and googleart. It
1990’s) drew from multiple organizational/clas-
catalog unrelated main access points. is necessary to figure out a way to incor- sification systems to catalog their materials
-Much as in how items in a museum are or- porate the community while still making -Technology has also allowed museums to vastly
ganized, a user can walk through the pages the collection accessible to historians and increase their role and presence within the com-
of this website with the information laid out those who have a familiar background to munity and to frame cultural identity in new
in front of them. The user can at once locate the collection. Social tagging can be the ways. i.e. NMAI Virtual Tour
specific information based on visual cues bridge between the two. Finding a common -Technology allowed Native American children
language becomes the important factor in to personally catalog and describe cultural
and an assumed natural order, and browse
new studies. In its new inception (April artifacts as well as show their history to museum
for similar information as links to similar visitors more clearly than ever before
subject headings and object descriptions are 2012) Googlart is a mass digital collection,
physically grouped together on the page. bringing the community into the art world,
that may make tagging obsolete.
