Abstract The goal of this work is to further increase the use, by all stakeholders, well-established and official cataloguing methods for preservation, valorisation study naturalistic heritage. describes standards Central Institute Cataloguing Documentation (ICCD) Italian mineralogical, petrological planetological heritage community scientists, curators museum practitioners. This then provides ...

The information profession has changed drastically in the last few years. The core requirements for information workers have also changed because the workplace needs specific qualities and skills. The necessity of continuing to teach cataloguing and classification is questioned, and many library schools have discontinued teaching these subjects. Many experts, however, believe that cataloguing a...

Museums and archives collect and store documentation of processes of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), such as craftsmanship skills, acts, and events recorded in videos, audio tapes, manuscripts, photos, and transcriptions. Such recordings are typically catalogued in an object-centric way as documents, using schemas such as Dublin Core. Also in event-centric models the focus has been on tangi...

Students have provided cheap successful labour for routine retrospective cataloguing projects. The current article examines a library project which went further, using university students with minimum training to catalogue its undergraduate stock from the book in hand to AACR2, level 2, allegedly to professional standard. The article discusses the faults made in MARC coding, descriptive catalog...

This paper describes the Cataloguing Tool of the Mkbeem multilingual eCommerce mediation system. The Cataloguing Tool is used by product suppliers to provide necessary product information in a form required by the mediation system. The relevant information includes product articles that are maintained in a pivot language and automatically translated to other supported languages. From the suppli...

Videos contain rich information. Until recently, information within a video had been largely left under-utilized, with fast forward/rewind as the most popular method of accessing video content. This is no longer sufficient however, as more and more users demanded the flexibility and ability to access video content selectively. Unlike textual information however, video bits do not convey same le...