Synopses & Reviews
Search engines, subject gateways, descriptive metadata, Web cataloging--everyone is looking for ways to support information discovery and retrieval on the Internet. To become full partners in new digital access ventures, library and information professionals need to be familar with effective tools and stategies, and need to make decisions about what is appropriate for different resources, settings and communities. This book takes a look at what has been done in providing subject access to networked resources, and what is around the corner.
Accompanies by ample illustrations and complementary online material, topics include: Metadata, as a potentiator of subject description; classification schemes and directories; alphabetical subject engines in all their variety; and trends in subject decription and access. A book directed to information professional, educators, and students involved in Web design, cataloging, indexing, reference, and information retrieval.
Review
Sorting Out the Web makes a significant contribution to the literature too because of the emphasis on subject approaches in the context of the Web and the discussion and foresight provided about the integration of automatic methods. In my opinion this is a very successful and much needed text. In short,it is a must have for librarians, students, webmasters, and other persons or communities wanting to facilitate networked resource discovery.The Journal of Academic Librarianship
Review
...the author has covered pretty much everything that could help librarians and those in information science fields, such as Web design, understand where it all began and where catalog librarians are headed....This title would also be ideal for students in information science.Technical Services Quarterly
Synopsis
Investigates what has been done in providing subject access to networked resources, and what is around the corner.
Synopsis
Search engines, subject gateways, descriptive metadata, Web cataloging--everyone is looking for ways to support information discovery and retrieval on the Internet. To become full partners in new digital access ventures, library and information professionals need to be familar with effective tools and stategies, and need to make decisions about what is appropriate for different resources, settings and communities. This book takes a look at what has been done in providing subject access to networked resources, and what is around the corner.
Synopsis
Search engines, subject gateways, descriptive metadata, Web cataloging--everyone is looking for ways to support information discovery and retrieval on the Internet. To become full partners in new digital access ventures, library and information professionals need to be familar with effective tools and stategies, and need to make decisions about what is appropriate for different resources, settings and communities. This book takes a look at what has been done in providing subject access to networked resources, and what is around the corner. Accompanies by ample illustrations and complementary online material, topics include: Metadata, as a potentiator of subject description; classification schemes and directories; alphabetical subject engines in all their variety; and trends in subject decription and access. A book directed to information professional, educators, and students involved in Web design, cataloging, indexing, reference, and information retrieval.
About the Author
CANDY SCHWARTZ is Professor of Library and Information Science at Simmons College.
Table of Contents
Figures
Preface
Introduction
Metadata
Classification
Controlled Vocabularies
Search Engines
Around the Corner
Index