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Ambient Findability
by Peter Morville

ISBN 0596007655 (0-596-00765-5)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be "findable" in this day and age? This eye-opening new book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. Written by Peter Morville, author of the groundbreaking Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the book defines our current age as a state of unlimited findability. In other words, anyone can find anything at any time. Complete navigability.
Morville discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that are coming together to make unlimited findability possible. He explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society, since Web access is now a standard requirement for successful people and businesses. But before he does that, Morville looks back at the history of wayfinding and human evolution, suggesting that our fear of being lost has driven us to create maps, charts, and now, the mobile Internet.

The book's central thesis is that information literacy, information architecture, and usability are all critical components of this new world order. Hand in hand with that is the contention that only by planning and designing the best possible software, devices, and Internet, will we be able to maintain this connectivity in the future. Morville's book is highlighted with full color illustrations and rich examples that bring his prose to life.

Ambient Findability doesn't preach or pretend to know all the answers. Instead, it presents research, stories, and examples in support of its novel ideas. Are we truly at a critical point in our evolution where the quality of our digital networks will dictate how we behave as a species? Is findability indeed the primary key to a successful global marketplace in the 21st century and beyond. Peter Morville takes you on a thought-provoking tour of these memes and more -- ideas that will not only fascinate but will stir your creativity in practical ways that you can apply to your work immediately.

""A lively, enjoyable and informative tour of a topic that's only going to become more important.""

--David Weinberger, Author, "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" and "The Cluetrain Manifesto"

""I envy the young scholar who finds this inventive book, by whatever strange means are necessary. The future isn't just unwritten--it's unsearched.""

--Bruce Sterling, Writer, Futurist, and Co-Founder, The Electronic Frontier Foundation

""Search engine marketing is the hottest thing in Internet business, and deservedly so. Ambient Findability puts SEM into a broader context and provides deeper insights into human behavior. This book will help you grow your online business in a world where being found is not at all certain.""

--Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., Author, "Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity"

""Information that's hard to find will remain information that's hardly found--from one of the fathers of the discipline of information architecture, and one of its most experienced practitioners, come penetrating observations on why findability is elusive and how the act of seeking changes us.""

--Steve Papa, Founder and Chairman, Endeca

""Whether it's a fact or a figure, a person or a place, Peter Morville knows how to make it findable. Morville explores the possibilities of a world where everything can always be found--and the challenges in getting there--in this wide-ranging, thought-provoking book.""

--Jesse James Garrett, Author, "The Elements of User Experience"

""It is easy to assume that current searching of the World Wide Web is the last word in finding and using information. Peter Morville shows us that search engines are just the beginning. Skillfully weaving together information science research with his own extensive experience, he develops for the reader a feeling for the near future when information is truly findable all around us. There are immense implications, and Morville's lively and humorous writing brings them home.""

--Marcia J. Bates, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles

""I've always known that Peter Morville was smart. After reading Ambient Findability, I now know he's (as we say in Boston) wicked smart. This is a timely book that will have lasting effects on how we create our future."

--Jared Spool, Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering

""In Ambient Findability, Peter Morville has put his mind and keyboard on the pulse of the electronic noosphere. With tangible examples and lively writing, he lays out the challenges and wonders of finding our way in cyberspace, and explains the mutually dependent evolution of our changing world and selves. This is a must read for everyone and a practical guide for designers.""

--Gary Marchionini, Ph.D., University of North Carolina

""Find this book! Anyone interested in makinginformation easier to find, or understanding how finding and being found is changing, will find this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, literate, insightful and very, very cool book well worth their time. Myriad examples from rich and varied domains and a valuable idea on nearly every page. Fun to read, too!"

--Joseph Janes, Ph.D., Founder, Internet Public Library
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Anglo American Cataloguing Rules, 2002 Revision: 2003 Update

ISBN 0838935362 (0-8389-3536-2)
Hardcover, Amer Library Assn

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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
by American Library Association, Joint Steering Committee for Revision of Aacr, Michael Gorman, Paul W. Winkler

ISBN 0838934854 (0-8389-3485-4)
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AACR2 is one of the most used cataloguing systems in the world, and these amendments are an update to the 1988 revision. This latest set of revisions to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules has been approved by the Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR. The code plus these amendments are the standard in use and are available to those who already have the main AACR2 text or as a separate entity. Anyone requiring this comprehensive, up-to-date version of the code will want to buy the amendments for incorporation into their existing copy of AACR2. The amendments have been designed so that they can be easily inserted into bound copies or loose-leaf binder. [via]
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by Michael Gorman, Paul W. Winkler

ISBN 0838933467 (0-8389-3346-7)
Hardcover, American Library Association

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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules: 1988 Revision/With Amendments 1993
by Paul W. Winkler, Gorman, Michael & Winkler, Paul

ISBN 0838933602 (0-8389-3360-2)
Softcover, Amer Library Assn

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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 1998
by American Library Association, Joint Steering Committee for Revision of Aacr, Michael Gorman, Paul W. Winkler

ISBN 0838934862 (0-8389-3486-2)
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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules: 1998 Revision

ISBN 0838935214 (0-8389-3521-4)
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Anglo-american Cataloguing Rules 2002 Revision: 2004 Update (Update Pages Only)
by Canadian Library Association, The American Library Association, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Great Britain)

ISBN 083893546X (0-8389-3546-X)
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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2002

ISBN 0838935303 (0-8389-3530-3)
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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2002: Binder
by The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

ISBN 083893529X (0-8389-3529-X)
Hardcover, Amer Library Assn

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Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works And Their Images
by Patricia Harpring, Linda McRae, Elisa Lanzi, ANN BAIRD WHITESIDE, Murtha Bacca, Murtha Baca

ISBN 0838935648 (0-8389-3564-8)
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In a visual and artifact-filled world, cataloging one-of-a-kind cultural objects without published guidelines and standards has been a challenge.

Now for the first time, under the leadership of the Visual Resources Association, a cross-section of five visual and cultural heritage experts, along with scores of reviewers from varied institutions, have created a new data content standard focused on cultural materials.

This cutting-edge reference offers practical resources for cataloging and flexibility to meet the needs of a wide range of institutions from libraries to museums to archives. Consistently following these guidelines for selecting, ordering, and formatting data used to populate metadata elements in cultural materials catalog records:

* Promotes good descriptive cataloging and reduces redundancy

* Builds a foundation of shared documentation

* Creates data sharing opportunities

* Enhances end-user access across institutional boundaries

* Complements existing standards (AACR)

This is a must-have reference for museum professionals, visual resources curators, archivists, librarians and anyone who documents cultural objects (including architecture, paintings, sculpture, prints, manuscripts, photographs, visual media, performance art, archaeological sites, and artifacts) and their images [via]
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Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map
by David C. Hay

ISBN 0120887983 (0-12-088798-3)
Hardcover, Morgan Kaufmann Pub

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In recent years, companies and government agencies have come to realize that the data they use represent a significant corporate resource, whose cost calls for management every bit as rigorous as the management of human resources, money, and capital equipment. With this realization has come recognition of the importance to integrate the data that has traditionally only been available from disparate sources.

An important component of this integration is the management of the "metadata that describe, catalogue, and provide access to the various forms of underlying business data. The "metadata repository is essential keeping track both of the various physical components of these systems, but also their semantics. What do we mean by "customer? Where can we find information about our customers?

After years of building enterprise models for the oil, pharmaceutical, banking, and other industries, Dave Hay has here not only developed a conceptual model of such a metadata repository, he has in fact created a true enterprise data model of the information technology industry itself.

* A comprehensive work based on the Zachman Framework for information architecture-encompassing the Business Owner's, Architect's, and Designer's views, for all columns (data, activities, locations, people, timing, and motivation)
* Provides a step-by-step description of model and is organized so that different readers can benefit from different parts
* Provides a view of the world being addressed by all the techniques, methods and tools of the information processing industry (for example, object-oriented design, CASE, business process re-engineering, etc.)
* Presents many concepts that are not currently being addressed by such tools - and should be [via]
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Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought
by David C. Hay

ISBN 0932633293 (0-932633-29-3)
Hardcover, Dorset House

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Describing Archives: A Content Standard
by Society of American Archivists

ISBN 1931666083 (1-931666-08-3)
Softcover, Society of Amer Archivists

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Electronic Cataloging: Aacr2 and Metadata for Serials and Monographs
by Sheila S. Intner, Sally C. Tseng, Mary Lynette Larsgaard

ISBN 0789022257 (0-7890-2225-7)
Softcover, Haworth Information Pr

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Essential Thesaurus Construction
by Vanda Broughton

ISBN 185604565X (1-85604-565-X)
Softcover, Neal Schuman Pub

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Many information professionals working in small units today fail to find the published tools for subject-based organization that are appropriate to their local needs, whether they are archivists, special librarians, information officers, or knowledge or content managers. Large established standards for document description and organization are too unwieldy, unnecessarily detailed, or too expensive to install and maintain. In other cases the available systems are insufficient for a specialist environment, or don't bring things together in a helpful way. A purpose built, in-house system would seem to be the answer, but too often the skills necessary to create one are lacking. This practical text examines the criteria relevant to the selection of a subject-management system, describes the characteristics of some common types of subject tool, and takes the novice step by step through the process of creating a system for a specialist environment. The methodology employed is a standard technique for the building of a thesaurus that incidentally creates a compatible classification or taxonomy, both of which may be used in a variety of ways for document or information management. Key areas covered are: What is a thesaurus? Tools for subject access and retrieval; what a thesaurus is used for? Why use a thesaurus? Examples of thesauri; the structure of a thesaurus; thesaural relationships; practical thesaurus construction; the vocabulary of the thesaurus; building the systematic structure; conversion to alphabetic format; forms of entry in the thesaurus; maintaining the thesaurus; thesaurus software; and; the wider environment. Essential for the practising information professional, this guide is also valuable for students of library and information science. [via]
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Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
by David Weinberger

ISBN 0805080430 (0-8050-8043-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co

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Geographic Information Metadata for Spatial Data Infrastructures: Resources, Interoperability and Information Retrieval
by Javier Nogueras-iso, F. Javier Zarazaga-Soria, Pedro R. Muro-Medrano

ISBN 3540244646 (3-540-24464-6)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag

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The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization
by Elaine Svenonius

ISBN 0262194333 (0-262-19433-3)
Hardcover, Mit Pr

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Instant electronic access to digital information is the single most distinguishing attribute of the information age. The elaborate retrieval mechanisms that support such access are a product of technology. But technology is not enough. The effectiveness of a system for accessing information is a direct function of the intelligence put into organizing it. Just as the practical field of engineering has theoretical physics as its underlying base, the design of systems for organizing information rests on an intellectual foundation. The subject of this book is the systematized body of knowledge that constitutes this foundation.

Integrating the disparate disciplines of descriptive cataloging, subject cataloging, indexing, and classification, the book adopts a conceptual framework that views the process of organizing information as the use of a special language of description called a bibliographic language. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is an analytic discussion of the intellectual foundation of information organization. The second part moves from generalities to particulars, presenting an overview of three bibliographic languages: work languages, document languages, and subject languages. It looks at these languages in terms of their vocabulary, semantics, and syntax. The book is written in an exceptionally clear style, at a level that makes it understandable to those outside the discipline of library and information science. [via]
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International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2003/2004: Metadata Applications and Management
by G.E. Gorman, D.G. Gorman

ISBN 0810849801 (0-8108-4980-1)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

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Introduction to Cataloging And Classification
by Arlene G. Taylor, David P. Miller

ISBN 1591582350 (1-59158-235-0)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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In the latest edition of this classic work, Arlene Taylor once again offers a complete, up-to-date, and practical guide to the world of cataloging and classification. Since the publication of the ninth and ninth-revised editions (2000 and 2004), changes have occurred in almost all areas of the organization of information in general, as well as in cataloging and classification. The 10th edition incorporates the 2002 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2), MARC 21, the 22nd edition of Dewey Decimal Classification, current schedules of the LC Classifications, the latest Library of Congress Subject Headings, and the 18th edition of the Sears List of Subject Headings. In addition, Taylor addresses such vital issues as FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records), FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology), and the Semantic Web. The bibliography and glossary have also been substantially reworked. In fact, only the appendix, which covers arrangement dilemmas and filing rules, remains unchanged.
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Introduction to Imaging
by Howard Besser, Sally Hubbard, Deborah Lenert

ISBN 0892367334 (0-89236-733-4)
Softcover, Getty Trust Pubn

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This primer introduces the technology and vocabulary of digital imaging and illustrates the choices that must be made when images are digitized. In addition to explaining the creation of digital images databases, the book identifies such fundamental issues as how to integrate an image database with other information resources and how to interchange visual information among a variety of computerized systems. The authors recommend strategies to ensure that future technological developments will not foreclose the options of upgrading databases and also provide a glossary of basic terms and a helpful bibliography. Introduction to Imaging is an essential tool for curators, librarians, collection managers, administrators, scholars, and students--anyone whose professional work has been changed by this new technology. [via]
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Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information
by Murtha Baca, Anne Gilliland Swetland, Getty Information Institute

ISBN 0892365331 (0-89236-533-1)
Softcover, Getty Trust Pubn

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Joe Celko's Data & Databases: Concepts in Practice
by Joe Celko

ISBN 1558604324 (1-55860-432-4)
Softcover, Morgan Kaufmann Pub

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Learning Xml
by Erik T. Ray

ISBN 0596004206 (0-596-00420-6)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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Although Learning XML covers XML with a broad brush, it nevertheless presents the key elements of the technology with enough detail to familiarise the reader with the crucial markup language. This guide is brief enough to tackle in a weekend.
Author Erik T Ray begins with an excellent summary of XML's history as an outgrowth of SGML and HTML. He outlines very clearly the elements of markup, demystifying concepts such as attributes, entities and namespaces with numerous clear examples. To illustrate a real-world XML application, he gives the reader a look at a document written in DocBook--a publicly available XML document type for publishing technical writings--and explains the sections of the document step by step. A simplified version of DocBook is used later in the book to illustrate transformation--a powerful benefit of XML.
The all-important Document Type Definition (DTD) is covered in depth, but the still-unofficial alternative--XML Schema--is only briefly addressed. The author makes liberal use of graphical illustrations, tables and code to demonstrate concepts along the way, keeping the reader engaged and on track. Ray also gets into a deep discussion of programming XML utilities with Perl.
Learning XML is a highly readable introduction to XML for readers with existing knowledge of markup and Web technologies, and it meets its goals very well--to deliver a broad perspective of XML and its potential. --Stephen W Plain [via]
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Literary Machines
by Theodor Nelson

ISBN 089347052X (0-89347-052-X)
Softcover, Eastgate Systems Inc

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Literary Machines 931
by Theodore H. Nelson

ISBN 0893470627 (0-89347-062-7)
Softcover, Mindful Pr

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Marc 21 for Everyone: A Practical Guide
by Deborah A. Fritz, Richard J. Fritz

ISBN 083890842X (0-8389-0842-X)
Softcover, Amer Library Assn

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Metadata: A Cataloger's Primer
by Richard P. Smiraglia

ISBN 0789028018 (0-7890-2801-8)
Softcover, Haworth Pr Inc

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Metadata And Its Impact on Libraries
by Sheila S. Intner, Susan S. Lazinger, Jean Riddle Weihs

ISBN 1591581451 (1-59158-145-1)
Hardcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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Metadata and Organizing Educational Resources on the Internet
by Jane Greenberg

ISBN 0789011794 (0-7890-1179-4)
Softcover, Haworth Pr Inc

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Metadata: For Information Management and Retrieval
by David Haynes

ISBN 1856044890 (1-85604-489-0)
Hardcover, Neal Schuman Pub

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Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians
by Priscilla Caplan

ISBN 0838908470 (0-8389-0847-0)
Softcover, Amer Library Assn

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Metadata in Practice
by Elaine L. Westbrooks, Diane I. Hillmann

ISBN 0838908829 (0-8389-0882-9)
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Metadata Solutions: Using Metamodels, Repositories, Xml, and Enterprise Portals to Generate Information on Demand
by Adrienne Tannenbaum

ISBN 0201719762 (0-201-71976-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley

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Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
by Joseph Gibaldi

ISBN 0873525655 (0-87352-565-5)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer

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The new edition presents a comprehensive guide to preparing research papers and includes detailed coverage using computers for research and citing electronic publications. [via]
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MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
by Walter S. Achtert, Modern Language Association of America, Joseph Gibaldi

ISBN 0873520009 (0-87352-000-9)
Hardcover, Modern Language Association

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The Organization of Information
by Arlene G. Taylor

ISBN 1563089696 (1-56308-969-6)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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The extensively revised and completely updated second edition of this popular textbook provides LIS practitioners and students with a vital guide to the organization of information. After a broad overview of the concept and its role in human endeavors, Taylor proceeds to a detailed and insightful discussion of such basic retrieval tools as bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, finding aids, registers, databases, major bibliographic utilities, and other organizing entities. After tracing the development of the organization of recorded information in Western civilization from 2000 B.C.E. to the present, the author addresses topics that include encoding standards (MARC, SGML, and various DTDs), metadata (description, access, and access control), verbal subject analysis including controlled vocabularies and ontologies, classification theory and methodology, arrangement and display, and system design.
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Practical Rdf
by Shelley Powers

ISBN 0596002637 (0-596-00263-7)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc

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The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a structure for describing and interchanging metadata on the Web--anything from library catalogs and worldwide directories to bioinformatics, Mozilla internal data structures, and knowledge bases for artificial intelligence projects. RDF provides a consistent framework and syntax for describing and querying data, making it possible to share website descriptions more easily. RDF's capabilities, however, have long been shrouded by its reputation for complexity and a difficult family of specifications. Practical RDF breaks through this reputation with immediate and solvable problems to help you understand, master, and implement RDF solutions.
Practical RDF explains RDF from the ground up, providing real-world examples and descriptions of how the technology is being used in applications like Mozilla, FOAF, and Chandler, as well as infrastructure you can use to build your own applications. This book cuts to the heart of the W3C's often obscure specifications, giving you tools to apply RDF successfully in your own projects.
The first part of the book focuses on the RDF specifications. After an introduction to RDF, the book covers the RDF specification documents themselves, including RDF Semantics and Concepts and Abstract Model specifications, RDF constructs, and the RDF Schema. The second section focuses on programming language support, and the tools and utilities that allow developers to review, edit, parse, store, and manipulate RDF/XML. Subsequent sections focus on RDF's data roots, programming and framework support, and practical implementation and use of RDF and RDF/XML.
If you want to know how to apply RDF to information processing, Practical RDF is for you. Whether your interests lie in large-scale information aggregation and analysis or in smaller-scale projects like weblog syndication, this book will provide you with a solid foundation for working with RDF.
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Putting Xml to Work in the Library: Tools for Improving Access and Management
by Dick R. Miller, Kevin S. Clarke

ISBN 0838908632 (0-8389-0863-2)
Softcover, Amer Library Assn

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Semantics in Business Systems: The Savvy Manager's Guide
by Dave McComb

ISBN 1558609172 (1-55860-917-2)
Softcover, Morgan Kaufmann Pub

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The Social Life of Information
by Paul Duguid, John Seely Brown

ISBN 1578517087 (1-57851-708-7)
Softcover, Harvard Business School Pr

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How many times has your PC crashed today? While Gordon Moore's now famous law projecting the doubling of computer power every 18 months has more than borne itself out, it's too bad that a similar trajectory projecting the reliability and usefulness of all that power didn't come to pass, as well. Advances in information technology are most often measured in the cool numbers of megahertz, throughput, and bandwidth--but, for many us, the experience of these advances may be better measured in hours of frustration.
The gap between the hype of the Information Age and its reality is often wide and deep, and it's into this gap that John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid plunge. Not that these guys are Luddites--far from it. Brown, the chief scientist at Xerox and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and Duguid, a historian and social theorist who also works with PARC, measure how information technology interacts and meshes with the social fabric. They write, "Technology design often takes aim at the surface of life. There it undoubtedly scores lots of worthwhile hits. But such successes can make designers blind to the difficulty of more serious challenges--primarily the resourcefulness that helps embed certain ways of doing things deep in our lives."
The authors cast their gaze on the many trends and ideas proffered by infoenthusiasts over the years, such as software agents, "still a long way from the predicted insertion into the woof and warp of ordinary life"; the electronic cottage that Alvin Toffler wrote about 20 years ago and has yet to be fully realized; and the rise of knowledge management and the challenges it faces trying to manage how people actually work and learn in the workplace. Their aim is not to pass judgment but to help remedy the tunnel vision that prevents technologists from seeing larger the social context that their ideas must ultimately inhabit. The Social Life of Information is a thoughtful and challenging read that belongs on the bookshelf of anyone trying to invent or make sense of the new world of information. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star

ISBN 0262522950 (0-262-52295-0)
Softcover, Mit Pr

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Is this book sociology, anthropology, or taxonomy? Sorting Things Out, by communications theorists Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, covers a lot of conceptual ground in its effort to sort out exactly how and why we classify and categorize the things and concepts we encounter day to day. But the analysis doesn't stop there; the authors go on to explore what happens to our thinking as a result of our classifications. With great insight and precise academic language, they pick apart our information systems and language structures that lie deeper than the everyday categories we use. The authors focus first on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a widely used scheme used by health professionals worldwide, but also look at other health information systems, racial classifications used by South Africa during apartheid, and more.
Though it comes off as a bit too academic at times (by the end of the 20th century, most writers should be able to get the spelling of McDonald's restaurant right), the book has a clever charm that thoughtful readers will surely appreciate. A sly sense of humor sneaks into the writing, giving rise to the chapter title "The Kindness of Strangers," for example. After arguing that categorization is both strongly influenced by and a powerful reinforcer of ideology, it follows that revolutions (political or scientific) must change the way things are sorted in order to throw over the old system. Who knew that such simple, basic elements of thought could have such far-reaching consequences? Whether you ultimately place it with social science, linguistics, or (as the authors fear) fantasy, make sure you put Sorting Things Out in your reading pile. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
by Georges Perec, John Sturrock

ISBN 0140189866 (0-14-018986-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Unix for Dummies
by John R. Levine

ISBN 1568849052 (1-56884-905-2)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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The title of this book invites comment. "Some things weren't meant for dummies and Unix is one of them," you might say. Wrong! Levine and Young take advantage of the Dummies format's strength with command-line operating systems. They flatten the learning curve and have even the greenest beginner doing useful work with Unix in mere hours.
Once you get past a couple of pointless chapters about offering pizza to Unix experts in exchange for help, you'll find conceptual explanations of files, directories, permissions, and redirection. Command explanations take a hybrid form; they mix "type this verbatim" statements with tables showing switches and parameters.
Much of Unix for Dummies is task-oriented. You'll find a whole chapter on printing, for example, that covers the commands you'll need to know to format and print a document on the right printer. Other chapters cover file searches, software installation, and X Windows navigation. The book also provides cursory coverage of four text editors--ED, vi, Emacs, and pico--but you learn little more than how to enter and save text in each.
Levine and Young include an eminently useful "DOS-to-Unix Rosetta Stone" that immediately tells you, for example, that the approximate Unix equivalent of DOS's copy is cp. DOS experts who are new transplants to a Unix environment will appreciate this translation guide. The authors wrap up with a wealth of basic troubleshooting information and a command reference.
This book, along with its companion, More Unix for Dummies, is the perfect choice for those who have no knowledge of Unix and need to learn it quickly. [via]
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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind
by George Lakoff

ISBN 0226468046 (0-226-46804-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. . . . Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offering both general theory and minute details, Lakoff shows that categories reveal a great deal."David E. Leary, American Scientist
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Wynar's Introduction to Cataloging and Classification
by David P. Miller, Arlene G. Taylor

ISBN 159158230X (1-59158-230-X)
Hardcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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This revised edition offers practitioners and students of library and information science a practical guide to the world of cataloguing and classification as it stands at the beginning of the 21st century. It emphasizes online catalogues and cataloguing, with all the attendant terminology. The author addresses such vital issues as Internet cataloguing, international access control, metadata, and ontologies. A new chapter, "Encoding", has been added to introduce users to the area of mark-up language that allows data to be read by computer and displayed online. Emphasis in this chapter is on "MARC 21". The chapter on "Description" reflects the major conceptual shift in description of resources with a new organization based on the eight areas of the "International Standard Bibliographic Description" (ISBD) rather than according to the type of material being catalogued. Other changes covered by the work encompass the 1998 revision of the "Anglio-American Cataloguing Rules", second edition (AACR2), the 21st edition of "Dewey Decimal Classification", current schedules of the LC Classifications, the latest "Library of Congress Subject Headings", and the 17th edition of "Sears List of Subject Headings". In addition, the section on adminstrative issues has been completely rewritten, and suggested readings have been updated in all chapters. [via]
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XML: A Guide for Librarians
by Ron Gilmore

ISBN 0838982557 (0-8389-8255-7)
Softcover, Amer Library Assn

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Introduccion a Los Metadatos: Vias a LA Informacion Digital
by Murtha Baca, Marisolne Jacas-Santell

ISBN 0892365358 (0-89236-535-8)
Softcover, Getty Trust Pubn

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Tiedon Partaalla: Kuinka Hallita Informaatiotulvaa
by Kimmo Tuominen

ISBN 9516926169 (951-692-616-9)
Hardcover, BTJ Kirjastopalvelu

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