04/07/2023TC Dojo Open Session 1

Concepts and Techniques of

Library Scienceor..

How library science can improve your life and the lives of your customersLiz Fraley, Single-Sourcing Solutions

04/07/2023 2

We’ve broken this presentation into three parts.

Today is Part 1: Introduction to Library

Science

A bit of warning…This presentation is typically

60-90 minutes which precedes

a 2-day workshopthat we give to companies when

preparing to help them develop their metadata strategy

Here’s the situation

• We have content.They want it.

• They have content.We want it.

• How does anyone find what they need?

All we need is…

• Metadata• Classification • Taxonomy• Categorization• Cataloguers• Curation• Faceted search• Filtering• Big Data• SubjectScheme

Right?

Isn’t there an easier way?

That is so much work…

Library Science is Information Science

• Librarians are the original information architects– Keepers of content– Curate content– Preserve content– Organize content– Make content findable– Help people find content units

• Ultimately, Librarians make sure people can find answers to to their questions Photo by: QuartierLatin1968

Library Science Teaches…

• Facilitating content discovery is all about creating and using effective access points

Picture by: pathfinderlinden

Access Points

• An access point is anything that you would want to use as way to fetch a certain piece of information

• An Access Point can be:– a search term (keyword)– search phrase– something as specific as a product number or another coded number

that identifies a smaller point (clause in a contract)– a date (everything by a person in a certain time period)– a title– an author– a company

Then Add: Scope

• Scope is a way to break up data so you can pull it out and group it in ways that are useful to the users– Children’s materials– Fiction– Non-fiction– Spanish

• You don’t necessarily care what the bucket is, you just want a bucket

Example: Organizing Principles

Photo by: stu_spivack

Photo by: magnetbox

End of Part One

Next time, we’ll get into detail about specific types of access points and how they work together.

Questions!

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In the next TC Dojo…• Title: Concepts and Techniques of Library Science Part 2!• Date: Monday 11 August 2014• Topic:

…or How library science can improve your life and the lives of your customers.

Have you ever bookmarked a site only to go back later and be unable to find that site in your bookmarks? Have you ever bookmarked a site twice only to wonder why you tagged it the way you did? Have you wondered how you will find the right content to reuse given hundreds of thousands of content library source files? In this series, you will learn how to get your arms around how this can work for you!

We’ll talk about specific types of access points in more detail.

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In the next Arbortext TC Dojo…• Title: Best Practices for Arbortext Workspaces in ACM

and Windchill• Date: Thursday 31 July 2014• Topic:

Using workspaces can be a bit confusing from time to time. How do you keep it clean? When should you create a new one? How long should you keep a workspace? How do you know which one to use (if you have several? And, hey, while we’re at it, why might you have several?) What is a workspace for anyway? In this session, we’re going to talk about workspaces in Arbortext Content Manager and Windchill, how to use them effectively and what the best practices are for managing them.

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