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Rez. in: IWP 60(1009) H.4, S.245-246 (C. Wolff): "Der von Andrea Back (St. Gallen), Norbert Gronau (Potsdam) und Klaus Tochtermann herausgegebene Sammelband "Web 2.0 in der Unternehmenspraxis" verbindet in schlüssiger Weise die systematische Einführung in die Themen Web 2.0 und social software mit der Darstellung von Möglichkeiten, solche neuen Informationssysteme für Veränderungen im Unternehmen zu nutzen und zeigt dies anhand einer ganzen Reihe einzelner Fallstudien auf. Auch zukünftige Anwendungen wie das social semantic web werden als Entwicklungschance erörtert. In einer knappen Einleitung werden kurz die wesentlichen Begriffe wie Web 2.0, social software oder "Enterprise 2.0" eingeführt und der Aufbau des Bandes wird erläutert. Das sehr viel umfangreichere zweite Kapitel führt in die wesentlichen Systemtypen der social software ein: Erläutert werden Wikis, Weblogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Tagging, Podcasting, Newsfeeds, Communities und soziale Netzwerke sowie die technischen Besonderheiten von social software. Die Aufteilung ist überzeugend, für jeden Systemtyp werden nicht nur wesentliche Funktionen, sondern auch typische Anwendungen und insbesondere das Potenzial zur Nutzung im Unternehmen, insbesondere mit Blick auf Fragen des Wissensmanagements erläutert. Teilweise können die Autoren auch aktuelle Nutzungsdaten der Systeme ergänzen. Auch wenn bei der hohen Entwicklungsdynamik der social software-Systeme ständig neue Formen an Bedeutung gewinnen, vermag die Einteilung der Autoren zu überzeugen.

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Enthält die Beiträge der Tagung "Social Tagging in der Wissensorganisation" am 21.-22.02.2008 am Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) in Tübingen. Volltext unter: http://www.waxmann.com/kat/inhalt/2039Volltext.pdf. Vgl. die Rez. unter: http://sehepunkte.de/2008/11/14934.html. Rez. in: IWP 60(1009) H.4, S.246-247 (C. Wolff): "Tagging-Systeme erfreuen sich in den letzten Jahren einer ungemein großen Beliebtheit, erlauben sie dem Nutzer doch die Informationserschließung "mit eigenen Worten", also ohne Rekurs auf vorgegebene Ordnungs- und Begriffsysteme und für Medien wie Bild und Video, für die herkömmliche Verfahren des Information Retrieval (noch) versagen. Die Beherrschung der Film- und Bilderfülle, wie wir sie bei Flickr oder YouTube vorfinden, ist mit anderen Mitteln als dem intellektuellen Einsatz der Nutzer nicht vorstellbar - eine professionelle Aufbereitung angesichts der Massendaten (und ihrer zu einem großen Teil auch minderen Qualität) nicht möglich und sinnvoll. Insofern hat sich Tagging als ein probates Mittel der Erschließung herausgebildet, das dort Lücken füllen kann, wo andere Verfahren (Erschließung durch information professionals, automatische Indexierung, Erschließung durch Autoren) fehlen oder nicht anwendbar sind. Unter dem Titel "Good Tags - Bad Tags. Social Tagging in der Wissensorganisation" und der Herausgeberschaft von Birgit Gaiser, Thorsten Hampel und Stefanie Panke sind in der Reihe Medien in der Wissenschaft (Bd. 47) Beiträge eines interdisziplinären Workshops der Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft zum Thema Tagging versammelt, der im Frühjahr 2008 am Institut für Wissensmedien in Tübingen stattgefunden hat. . . .

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Editor

Griesbaum, J., T. Mandl u. C. Womser-Hacker

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Harms, I. u.a.

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The chapters are generally less than 20 pages, which allows for concise presentations of each case study. Each chapter contains, more or less, a brief abstract, introduction, related works section, methodology section, conclusion, and references. The chapters are further categorized into six thematic sections. Section I focuses on the history of digital libraries in the Asia Pacific. Section II, composed of four chapters, focuses on the design architecture and systems of digital libraries. The next five chapters, in section III, examine challenges in implementing digital library systems. This section is particularly interesting because issues such as multicultural and multilingual barriers are discussed. Section IV is about the use of and impact of digital libraries in a society. All four chapters in this section emphasize improvements that need to be made to digital libraries regarding different types of users. Particularly important is chapter 14, which discusses digital libraries and their effects on youth. The conclusion of this case study revealed that digital libraries need to support peer learning, as there are many social benefits for youth from interacting with peers. Section V, which focuses on users and usability, consists of five chapters. This section relates directly to the implementation challenges that are mentioned in section III, providing specific examples of cross-cultural issues among users that need to be taken into consideration. In addition, section V discusses the differences in media types and the difficulties with transforming these resources into digital formats. For example, chapter 18, which is about designing a music digital library, demonstrates the difficulties in selecting from the numerous types of technologies that can be used to digitize library collections. Finally, the chapter in section VI discusses the future trends of digital libraries. The editors successfully present diverse perspectives about digital libraries, by including case studies performed in numerous different countries throughout the Asia Pacific region. Countries represented in the case studies include Indonesia, Taiwan, India, China, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Philippines, Japan, and Malaysia. The diversity of the users in these countries helps to illustrate the numerous differences and similarities that digital library designers need to take into consideration in the future when developing a universal digital library system. In order to create a successful digital library system that can benefit all users, there must be a sense of balance in the technology used, and the authors of the case studies in this book have definitely proved that there are distinct barriers that need to be overcome in order to achieve this harmony.

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While each single paragraph of the book is packed with valuable advice and real-life experience, I consider the last chapter to be the most intriguing and ground-breaking one. It's only here that taxonomists meet folksonomists and ontologists in a fundamental attempt to write a new page on the relative position between old and emerging classification techniques. In a well-balanced and sober analysis that foregoes excessive enthusiasm in favor of more appropriate considerations about content scale, domain maturity, precision and cost, knowledge infrastructure tools are all arrayed from inexpensive and expressive folksonomies on one side, to the smart, formal, machine-readable but expensive world of ontologies on the other. In light of so many different tools, information infrastructure clearly appears more as a complex dynamic ecosystem than a static overly designed environment. Such a variety of tasks, perspectives, work activities and paradigms calls for a resilient, adaptive and flexible knowledge environment with a minimum of standardization and uniformity. The right mix of tools and approaches can only be determined case by case, by carefully considering the particular objectives and requirements of the organization while aiming to maximize its overall performance and effectiveness. Starting from the history of taxonomy-building and ending with the emerging trends in Web technologies, artificial intelligence and social computing, Organising Knowledge is thus both a guiding tool and inspirational reading, not only about taxonomies, but also about effectiveness, collaboration and finding middle ground: exactly the right principles to make your intranet, portal or document management tool a rich, evolving and long-lasting ecosystem."

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Weitere Rez. in: New Library World 108(2007) nos.3/4, S.190-191 (K.V. Trickey): "Vanda has provided a very useful work that will enable any reader who is prepared to follow her instruction to produce a thesaurus that will be a quality language-based subject access tool that will make the task of information retrieval easier and more effective. Once again I express my gratitude to Vanda for producing another excellent book." - Electronic Library 24(2006) no.6, S.866-867 (A.G. Smith): "Essential thesaurus construction is an ideal instructional text, with clear bullet point summaries at the ends of sections, and relevant and up to date references, putting thesauri in context with the general theory of information retrieval. But it will also be a valuable reference for any information professional developing or using a controlled vocabulary." - KO 33(2006) no.4, S.215-216 (M.P. Satija)

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Rez. in: KO 32(2005) no.1, S.47-49 (M. Hudon): "Vanda Broughton's Essential Classification is the most recent addition to a very small set of classification textbooks published over the past few years. The book's 21 chapters are based very closely an the cataloguing and classification module at the School of Library, Archive, and Information studies at University College, London. The author's main objective is clear: this is "first and foremost a book about how to classify. The emphasis throughout is an the activity of classification rather than the theory, the practical problems of the organization of collections, and the needs of the users" (p. 1). This is not a theoretical work, but a basic course in classification and classification scheme application. For this reviewer, who also teaches "Classification 101," this is also a fascinating peek into how a colleague organizes content and structures her course. "Classification is everywhere" (p. 1): the first sentence of this book is also one of the first statements in my own course, and Professor Broughton's metaphors - the supermarket, canned peas, flowers, etc. - are those that are used by our colleagues around the world. The combination of tone, writing style and content display are reader-friendly; they are in fact what make this book remarkable and what distinguishes it from more "formal" textbooks, such as The Organization of Information, the superb text written and recently updated (2004) by Professor Arlene Taylor (2nd ed. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2004). Reading Essential Classification, at times, feels like being in a classroom, facing a teacher who assures you that "you don't need to worry about this at this stage" (p. 104), and reassures you that, although you now speed a long time looking for things, "you will soon speed up when you get to know the scheme better" (p. 137). This teacher uses redundancy in a productive fashion, and she is not afraid to express her own opinions ("I think that if these concepts are helpful they may be used" (p. 245); "It's annoying that LCC doesn't provide clearer instructions, but if you keep your head and take them one step at a time [i.e. the tables] they're fairly straightforward" (p. 174)). Chapters 1 to 7 present the essential theoretical concepts relating to knowledge organization and to bibliographic classification. The author is adept at making and explaining distinctions: known-item retrieval versus subject retrieval, personal versus public/shared/official classification systems, scientific versus folk classification systems, object versus aspect classification systems, semantic versus syntactic relationships, and so on. Chapters 8 and 9 discuss the practice of classification, through content analysis and subject description. A short discussion of difficult subjects, namely the treatment of unique concepts (persons, places, etc.) as subjects seems a little advanced for a beginners' class.

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Date

23. 3.2008 19:10:22

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Global player Lohnend auch ein Blick auf andere Gruppen von Gratulanten. Die Forschung ist, wie es den Schwerpunkten des Verlagsprogramms entspricht, vor allem durch Zeithistoriker vertreten. Peter Steinbach stellt in einem eindrucksvollen Beitrag die in historischer Erfahrung gründende bewusste politische Verantwortung des Verlegers der flüchtigen Betroffenheitsrhetorik öffentlicher Feierstunden gegenüber. Besonders zahlreich äußern sich Publizistik-Wissenschaftler. Die Bedeutung Klaus G. Saurs und seines Verlages für das publizistikwissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungswesen dürfte der für das bibliothekarische zumindest nahe kommen. Ab und zu scheint auch mit etwas Lokalpatriotismus die Münchener Buchszene auf, in der wohl immer noch ein Nachglanz der (vorigen) Jahrhundertwende lebt, und zurückhaltend und am Rande auch die Lokalpolitik (Kronawitter, Vogel). Den weltweiten Aktivitäten und Geschäftsbeziehungen des Verlegers - seine Ernennung zum »Global player«, aber auch »Global gentleman« (Geh S.75 u.77) bleibt nicht aus - entspricht, dass ein Fünftel der Beiträge aus dem Ausland kommt. Direkte »Hymnen, Loblieder, Elegien oder Projektbeschreibungen für Zuschussanträge« wurden von den Herausgebern zwar von vornherein ausgeschlossen,aber auf dem solchermaßen eingeschränkten Terrain entfaltet sich noch eine eindrucksvolleVielfalt. Wie es dem Anlass gebührt, wird manche private Erinnerung und manch tagesfrisches Blümlein in den Kranz gebunden, einige Male in kompliziert gereimter (Ruppelt, Beckurts, C. Fabian und Backes) oder sogar ausgedehnt versepischer Form (Haller 5.133-145!). Zur Sprache kommt neben dem »berühmten, berüchtigten und beinahe unfehlbaren« (S.51) Gedächtnis, neben den ebenso berühmten Empfängen, »die in der staubigen WeIt der Bibliothekare völlig neue Maßstäbe setzten« (Pfäfflin S.41), immer wieder die überschäumende Kontaktfreude des Verlegers, der sich nicht nur als »Verkäufer und Vertriebsgenie« (Leskien S.127), als »schnurrender Zwölfzylinder des Verlagswesens« (Heker S.295) bewies, sondern mit Bibliothekaren in einer Intensität kooperierte, die schließlich in eine Art »Symbiose« (Hildebrandt 5.74 u.a.) mündete. »Denn er ist unser«, jubelt Michael Knoche (S.186) und Antonius Jammers stellt fest: »Kein Verleger ... hat so konsequent und systematisch seit Jahrzehnten den Kontakt zu den wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken gesucht und mit ihnen zusammengearbeitet.« (S.180) Diese Kooperation war noch über die Partnerschaft hinaus Ermutigung und Geburtshilfe: der Verleger bewährte sich als »jemand, der Dinge anzupacken bereit war, für die den Bibliothekaren das Geld und der Mut fehlten« (Mittler S.81).

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Abstract

The library is first divided into nine special libraries which are called Classes. These Classes are Philosophy, Theology, &c., and are numbered with the nine digits. Thus Class 9 is the Library of History; Class 7, the Library of Fine Art; Class 2, the Library of Theology. These special libraries or Classes are then considered independently, and each one is separated again into nine special Divisions of the main subject. These Divisions are numbered from 1 to 9 as were the Classes. Thus 59 is the 9th Division (Zoology) of the 5th Class (Natural Science). A final division is then made by separating each of these Divisions into nine Sections which are numbered in the same way, with the nine digits. Thus 513 is the 3d Section (Geometry) of the 1st Division (Mathematics) of the 5th Class (Natural Science). This number, giving Class, Division, and Section, is called the Classification or Class Number, and is applied to every book or pamphlet belonging to the library. All the Geometries are thus numbered 513, all the Mineralogies 549, and so throughout the library, all the books on any given subject bear the number of that subject in the scheme. Where a 0 occurs in a class number, it has its normal zero power. Thus, a book numbered 510, is Class 5, Division 1, but _no_ Section. This signifies that the book treats of the Division 51 (Mathematics) in general, and is not limited to any one Section, as is the Geometry, marked 513. If marked 500, it would indicate a treatise on Science in general, limited to _no_ Division. A zero occurring in the first place would in the same way show that the book is limited to _no_ Class. The classification is mainly made by subjects or content regardless of _form_; but it is found practically useful to make an additional distinction in these general treatises, according to the form of treatment adopted. Thus, in Science we have a large number of books treating of Science in general, and so having a 0 for the Division number. These books are then divided into Sections, as are those of the other Classes according to the form they have taken on. We have the Philosophy and History of Science, Scientific Compends, Dictionaries, Essays, Periodicals, Societies, Education, and Travels,--all having the common subject, =NATURAL SCIENCE=, but treating it in these varied forms. These form distinctions are introduced here because the number of general works is large, and the numerals allow of this division, without extra labor for the numbers from 501 to 509 would otherwise be unused. They apply _only_ to the general treatises, which, without them, would have a class number ending with two zeros. A Dictionary of Mathematics is 510, not 503, for every book is assigned to the _most specific head that will contain it_, so that 503 is limited to Dictionaries or Cyclopedias of Science _in general_. In the same way a General Cyclopedia or Periodical treats of no one class, and so is assigned to the Class 0. These books treating of no special class, but general in their character, are divided into Cyclopedias, Periodicals, etc. No difficulty is found in following the arithmetical law and omitting the initial zero, so these numbers are printed 31, 32, etc., instead of 031, 032, etc.