Organization of Information: Authority Control

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01013694
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

This course will adopt the following teaching methods:
a) lectures;
b) practical classes;
c) seminars for presentation and discussion of individual and /or group work;
d) study visits.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course students should be able to:

a) recognize the functions, objectives, process and products involved in authority control;

b) recognize the importance of authority control for efficient information retrieval;

c) recognize and apply the principles and national and international standards used in establishing the access points to a catalog;

d) evaluate the coherence and consistency of a catalog in terms of authority control;

e) have a clear perspective of the present and the future of authority control.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Authority control and the establishment of access points to a catalog
1.1 Functions, objectives and policies
1.2. Process and products
1.3. National and international standards: scope, structure and implementation.
1.4. Authority control in manual and automated environments

2. Authority control process
2.1. General principles and application
2.2. Access points selection
2.3. Access points presentation
2.4. Validation and quality control

3. Authority control: between the present and the future
3.1. Linked data and discovery tools: impacts on authority control.
3.2. FRAD and RDA: impacts on authority control.

Head Lecturer(s)

Anabela dos Anjos Fernandes Venâncio Henriques

Assessment Methods

Assessment
In-class participation: 10.0%
Report of a seminar or field trip: 10.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 10.0%
Resolution Problems: 20.0%
Mini Tests: 50.0%

Bibliography

Anglo-American cataloguing rules. (2003). Chicago: American Library Association; Ottawa: Canadian Library Association; London: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.

Frías de Montoya, J. A. (2001). El control de autoridades y el acceso a la información. In Catalogación de documentos: teoría y práctica (419-468). Madrid: Editorial Síntesis.

IFLA. Working Group on functional requirements and numbering of authority records (2011). Requisitos funcionais para dados de autoridade: um modelo conceptual. Lisboa: BNP.

Regras Portuguesas de Catalogação. (2000). Lisboa: BN.

Rodríguez-Bravo, B.; Travieso-Rodríguez, C.; Simões, M. da G.; Freitas, M. C. V. de (2014). Evaluating discovery tools in Portuguese and Spanish academic libraries. In International ISKO Conference, Cracóvia, 2, 2014 – Knowledge organization in the 21st century: Between historical patterns and future prospects (516-523). Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.