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Film, Video Expanding the Power of the Library's Family of Vocabularies: Genre/Form Headings

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Title

  • Expanding the Power of the Library's Family of Vocabularies: Genre/Form Headings

Summary

  • In 2007, the Library of Congress embarked upon a project to create a system of genre/form headings, which describe what a work is rather than what it is about, as subject headings do. This presentation will explain the motivations for undertaking the project, including the need to anticipate the linked data requirements of the new generation of search engines and user interfaces, and also enumerate the authority record distribution channels, which furnish data for both human use and for data mining and computer manipulation. In addition, the presentation will address the practical impacts of this project on LC staff and users alike.

Names

  • Library of Congress

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2009-07-02.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Education
  • -  Science, Technology
  • -  genre, form, headings, subject cataloging, authority records
  • -  Technology, Industry

Notes

  • -  Classification: Bibliography, Library Science, Information Resources (General).
  • -  Janis Young.
  • -  Recorded on 2009-07-02.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688275

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress. Expanding the Power of the Library's Family of Vocabularies: Genre/Form Headings. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-02, 2009. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688275/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress. (2009) Expanding the Power of the Library's Family of Vocabularies: Genre/Form Headings. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-02. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688275/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress. Expanding the Power of the Library's Family of Vocabularies: Genre/Form Headings. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-02, 2009. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688275/>.