Browsing by Author "Caplan, Priscilla"
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Item Cataloging Internet Resources(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1993) Caplan, PriscillaLet Archie Do It? How do we accommodate networked electronic information when our cataloging rules are designed to describe physical items owned by and residing in libraries? How do we provide access to that information? Do we let Archie do it instead? Questions like these must be addressed before we can move into the future and provide our patrons with information the way they are coming to expect it. It isn't sufficient that we simply debate these issues at conferences and write about them in the literature. Action is needed, and well-established rules and practices must be changed. All of that is easy to agree with, but deciding how to change established rules and practices is another matter, not to mention actually revising them.Item "DOI or Don't We?"(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1998) Caplan, PriscillaItem To Hel(sinki) and Back for the Dublin Core(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1997) Caplan, PriscillaDescribes the fifth Dublin Core (DC Workshop) DC is a small set of simple, descriptive data elements intended to aid in the discovery of Internet resources. Covers metadata issues, "DC Lite," current international projects utilizing the Core, and issues yet to be resolved.Item A User's-eye View of the OPAC(The Public Access Computer Systems Review, 1994) Caplan, PriscillaMy academic library is in the market for a new integrated library system. As part of this process we've done all the usual things, including drawing up wish lists of desirable OPAC features and using them to evaluate numerous systems. We've also taken two far more interesting steps. First, we actually asked the faculty what they thought were important features to have in an online catalog. (This was suggested by a faculty member.) Second, on three separate occasions we set up "demonstration stations"--terminals in the library connected to two or more of the systems under consideration--for hands-on use by faculty and students. Some of the systems were graphical, some character based. In some cases, we showed two versions of the same system. We provided comment sheets for signed or anonymous remarks, and staff were available nearby to give help or take reactions. We got a lot of input. The results probably won't be turned into a major motion picture anytime soon, but they aren't without interest either. Here are several lessons I've drawn from this experience. And no, I'm not naming names; if you think you can identify a sinning or virtuous system, keep it to yourself.Item USMARC Format Integration, Part I: What, Why, and When?(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1992) Caplan, PriscillaIntroduces and briefly describes modifications to the Library of Congress cataloging rules, to be implemented January 1, 1994, which will allow catalogers to describe multiple formats in a single bibliographic record using both fixed and variable field data.Item USMARC Format Integration, Part II: Implications for Local Systems(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1993) Caplan, PriscillaWhen we last left USMARC format integration (see "USMARC Format Integration, Part I: What, Why, and When?" The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 3, no. 5 (1992): 33-36; GET CAPLAN PRV3N5 F=MAIL), it was defined, approved, and in imminent danger of being implemented. We concluded then that format integration would have to offer substantial benefits to the end users of our public catalogs to be worth the bother. Before going on to consider what some of those benefits might be, it's worth spending a little time belaboring the bother.Item Will the Real Internet Please Stand Up?(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1997) Caplan, PriscillaDiscusses problems with the current Internet and describes new Internet developments. Topics include Internet2, which is being developed for innovative high performance computing applications for member universities and corporate affiliates; the Next Generation Internet (NGI); the role of the NSF (National Science Foundation); and quality of service.Item You Call It Corn, We Call It Syntax-Independent Metadata for Document-Like Objects.(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1995) Caplan, PriscillaDiscusses the 1995 OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop that met to define a standard set of data elements for describing network-accessible information resources. These document data elements had to be simple enough for authors and publishers to use, to facilitate discovery and retrieval, and to be useful as a basis for descriptive cataloging.Item You Can't Get There From Here: E-prints and the Library(The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1994) Caplan, Priscilla