From Cataloguing to Metadata Creation

Prefaces (Barbara B. Tillett and Peter Lor)

Acknowledgments

List of Acronyms

1. Cataloguing and metadata. The centrality of a cultural and technical activity

2. Panta rei

2.1 Metanoia

2.2 New concepts and new terminology

2.3 Metadata: a polysemantic term

2.4 Libraries, Semantic Web and linked data: the data librarian

2.5 Metadata and bibliographic control

2.6 The importance of the catalogue

2.7 Two pitfalls for cataloguing and the catalogue?

2.8 How catalogues have to change to be of the Web and not just on the Web?

2.9 New discovery tools: data.bnf.fr

3. Principles and bibliographic models

3.1 Bibliographic models

3.2 Paris Principles

3.3 ICP

3.4 FRBR

3.5 FRAD

3.6 FRSAD

3.7 FRBRoo

3.8 IFLA LRM

3.9 Family of works

4. Description of resources

4.1 Description: a cultural and technical process

4.2 A new way to describe

4.3 Object of the description

4.4 Resource analysis: the bibliographic analysis

4.5 Sources of information

4.6 Main sources of information to describe a book

4.7 Types of description

4.8 Levels of description

5. Access to resources

5.1 Access: authority data

5.2 Relationships

5.3 Author and title

5.4 Authority control: authorised access point

5.5 Entity Identifiers

5.6 VIAF

5.7 ISNI

6. Exchange formats and description standards: MARC and ISBD

6.1 MARC, UNIMARC, MARC21

6.2 BIBFRAME

6.3 ISBD

6.4 ISBD: Consolidated Edition

6.5 ISBD: purposes

7. RDA: some basics

7.1 RDA

8. Subject Cataloguing (or subject indexing): some basics

8.1 A separate path

Concluding afterword (Giovanni Bergamin)

Notes

References

Index