Organization of Information: Authority Control
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2018-2019
01013694
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
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)
NoSyllabus
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)
Maria da Graça Melo Simões
Assessment Methods
Assessment
In-class participation: 10.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 10.0%
Report of a seminar or field trip: 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.