The creation, management and dissemination of bibliographic information is a common task for almost all people working in a research environment, and it also is a (often weak) way of knowledge management. Current tools and methods are either centered on the process of document preparation using bibliographic references, or on the aspect of creating annotations and/or relationships describing bi...

This study examines bibliographic relationships between Canadian publications published in 2009 available in AMICUS (Canadian National Catalogue). It consisted of categorizing bibliographic relationships in the taxonomy of work-to-work relationships available in the FRBR Final Report. The study indicates frequencies of occurrences of bibliographic relationships based on manifestations found in ...

This paper describes the history and role of the UNIMARC bibliographic data formats, as background to a discussion of preliminary outcomes of a project to represent the formats in Resource Description Framework (RDF) and map them to related standards, including the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD). These include the testing of the strategy for namespace and URI design and...

Research Paper Purpose: To make CDS/ISIS databases OAI-Compliant Design/Methodology/Approach: One of the biggest obstacles for information dissemination to a user community is that many digital libraries or bibliographic databases use heterogeneous technologies that inhibit interoperability. The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) addresses interoperability by using a framework to facilitate the dis...