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  1. Marcella, R.; Baxter, G.: ¬The citizenship information needs of the UK public : the quest for representativeness in methodological approach (1999) 0.00 
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    22. 3.2002 8:53:04
  2. Lomax, E.C.; Lowe, H.J.; Logan, T.F.; Detlefsen, E.G.: ¬An investigation of the information seeking behavior of medical oncologists in Metropolitan Pittsburgh using a multi-method approach (1999) 0.00 
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  3. Olsson, M.: Discourse : a new theoretical framework for examining information behaviour in its social context (1999) 0.00 
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    22. 3.2002 9:52:19
  4. Internet in Öffentlichen Bibliotheken -up (to) date! (1999) 0.00 
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    Footnote
    Referate und Materialien der Veranstaltungen: 'Internet in Öffentlichen Bibliotheken II, 25.-27.6.1998, Germershausen bei Göttingen' und 'Neue Informationstechnologien in der Fachstellenarbeit, 22.-24.6.1998, Nürnberg'
  5. Engers, T.M. van; Steenhuis, M.: Knowledge management in the Dutch tax and customs administration : quantifying knowledge in an operational context (1996) 0.00 
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    Source
    Knowledge management: organization competence and methodolgy. Proceedings of the Fourth International ISMICK Symposium, 21-22 October 1996, Netherlands. Ed.: J.F. Schreinemakers
  6. Wijnhoven. F.; Wognum, P.M.; Weg, R.L.W. van de: Knowledge ontology development (1996) 0.00 
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    Knowledge management: organization competence and methodolgy. Proceedings of the Fourth International ISMICK Symposium, 21-22 October 1996, Netherlands. Ed.: J.F. Schreinemakers
  7. Weggeman, M.: Knowledge management : the modus operandi for a learning organization (1996) 0.00 
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    Knowledge management: organization competence and methodolgy. Proceedings of the Fourth International ISMICK Symposium, 21-22 October 1996, Netherlands. Ed.: J.F. Schreinemakers
  8. Molholt, P.: Qualities of classification schemes for the Information Superhighway (1995) 0.00 
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    Source
    Cataloging and classification quarterly. 21(1995) no.2, S.19-22
  9. Electronic resources : selection and bibliograhic control (1996) 0.00 
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    Series
    Cataloging and classification quarterly; vol.22, nos.3/4
  10. Leazer, G.H.; Smiraglia, R.P.: Bibliographic families in the library catalog : a qualitative analysis and grounded theory (1999) 0.00 
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    Date
    10. 9.2000 17:38:22
  11. Semantik, Lexikographie und Computeranwendungen : Workshop ... (Bonn) : 1995.01.27-28 (1996) 0.00 
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    Date
    14. 4.2007 10:04:22
  12. Rubner, J.: Vom Wissen und Fühlen : Einführung in die Erforschung des Gehirns (1999) 0.00 
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    Date
    17. 7.1996 9:33:22
  13. Bibliotheken '93 : Strukturen - Aufgaben - Positionen (1994) 0.00 
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    Content
    Enthält u.a.: Abschnitt 5.2 (S.13-14) 'Leistungsmerkmale von Bibliotheken der Stufe 1' mit: "einen aktuelle Informations- und Auskunftsdienst mit Broschüren, verbraucherinformationen u.ä., Informationsmöglichkeiten über die Angebote der Kommune und in der Kommune; den Zugriff auf Datenbanken und Speichermedien"; Abschnitt 7.1 (S.22-23): 'Auskunftsdienst'; Anlage 3 (S.114-120): 'Bau und Einrichtung Öffentlicher Bibliotheken: Raumbedarf' mit Abschnitt 1.2: 'Das Raumprogramm öffentlicher Bibliotheken'
  14. Bleuel, J.: Online Publizieren im Internet : elektronische Zeitschriften und Bücher (1995) 0.00 
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    Date
    22. 3.2008 16:15:37
  15. Müller-Dreier, A.: Einheitsklassifikation : die Geschichte einer fortwirkenden Idee (1994) 0.00 
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    Footnote
    Rez. in: Mitteilungsblatt VdB NW N.F. 45(1995) H.3, S.332-333 (H. Lohse) [Auch wenn H. Lohse meint, das Buch bzw. die zugrundeliegende Assessorarbeit hätte nicht geschrieben werden müssen, so liefert doch gerade seine Rezension den Beweis, wie notwendig diese Arbeit war]; BuB 47(1995) H.10, S.955-959 (I. Nöther) ["Diese von einem Berufsanfänger vorgelegte Arbeit ist eine Spitzenleistung, ein Meisterwerk, auf das der Autor, seine Ausbildungsstätte sowie der Verlag und der Herausgeber der Reihe sotz sein können. Für jeden, der sich heute und in Zukunft mit Fragen der Klassifikation befaßt, ist die Lektüre dieses Buches Pflicht"]; Bibliothek: Forschung und Praxis 20(1996) H.1, S.134-135 (W. Gödert); Knowledge organization 22(1995) no.3/4, S.178 (B. Lorenz); Journal of documentation 51(1995) no.4, S.434-437 (J.S. Andrews)
  16. Kuhlen, R.: ¬Die Konsequenzen von Informationsassistenten : was bedeutet informationelle Autonomie oder wie kann Vertrauen in elektronische Dienste in offenen Informationsmärkten gesichert werden? (1999) 0.00 
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    Date
    28. 8.2019 19:21:22
  17. Donald, M: Origins of the modern mind : three stages in the evolution of culture and cognition (1991) 0.00 
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    1. 2.2020 16:21:22
  18. Geißelmann, F. (Hrsg.): Sacherschließung in Online-Katalogen (1994) 0.00 
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    Date
    15. 7.2018 16:22:16
    Footnote
    Rez. in: Mitteilungen VÖB 48(1995) H.1, S.66-68 (K. Niedermair) - Vgl. auch Lepsky, K. in: Bibliotheksdienst 29(1995) H.3, S.500-519; Bibliothek: Forschung u. Praxis 19(1995) H.2, S.251-254 (G. Hartwieg; auch in: LDV-Forum Bd. 12, Nr. 2, Jg. 1995, S.22-29 [unter: http://www.jlcl.org/1995_Heft2/Rezensionen_19-27.pdf]) .
  19. Clavel, G.; Dale, P.; Heiner-Freiling, M.; Kunz, M.; Landry, P.; MacEwan, A.; Naudi, M.; Oddy, P.; Saget, A.: CoBRA+ working group on multilingual subject access : final report (1999) 0.00 
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    Content
    Backgrund to the study: The question of multilingual access to bibliographic databases affects not only searchers in countries in which several languages are spoken such as Switzerland, but also all those who search material in databases containing material in more than one language, which is the case in the majority of scientific or research databases. he growth of networks means that we can easily access catalogues outside our own immediate circle - in another town, another country, another continent. In doing so we encounter problems concerning not only search interfaces, but also concerning subject access or even author access in another language. In France for example, each document, independently of the language in which it has been written, is indexed using a French-language subject heading language. Thus, in order to search by subject headings for documents written in English or German, held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the researcher from abroad has to master the French language. In theory, the indexer should be able to analyse a document and assign headings in his/her native language, while the user should be able to search in his/her native language. The language of the document itself should have no influence on the language of the subject heading language used for indexing nor on the language used for searching. (Practically speaking of course, there are restrictions, since there is a limit to the number of languages in which subject headings languages could be maintained and thus in which the user may search.) In the example below, we are concerned with three languages: German, French and English. If we can imagine a system in which there are equivalents among subject headings in these three languages, the following scenario may be envisaged: a German-speaking indexer will use German-language subject headings to index all the documents received, regardless of the language in which they are written. The user may search for these documents by entering subject headings in German, but also in French or in English, thanks to the equivalents that have been established, in French or in English without the necessity to know the other languages or the structure of the other SHLs. Ideally, this approach should not be confined to one database, but would allow the different databases to be brought together in virtual system: an English-speaking user in London should be able to search the database of the Deutsche Bibliothek in Frankfurt using English-language headings, and retrieving documents which have been indexed using the German subject headings' list.
  20. Borgman, C.L.: Multi-media, multi-cultural, and multi-lingual digital libraries : or how do we exchange data In 400 languages? (1997) 0.00 
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    Abstract
    The Internet would not be very useful if communication were limited to textual exchanges between speakers of English located in the United States. Rather, its value lies in its ability to enable people from multiple nations, speaking multiple languages, to employ multiple media in interacting with each other. While computer networks broke through national boundaries long ago, they remain much more effective for textual communication than for exchanges of sound, images, or mixed media -- and more effective for communication in English than for exchanges in most other languages, much less interactions involving multiple languages. Supporting searching and display in multiple languages is an increasingly important issue for all digital libraries accessible on the Internet. Even if a digital library contains materials in only one language, the content needs to be searchable and displayable on computers in countries speaking other languages. We need to exchange data between digital libraries, whether in a single language or in multiple languages. Data exchanges may be large batch updates or interactive hyperlinks. In any of these cases, character sets must be represented in a consistent manner if exchanges are to succeed. Issues of interoperability, portability, and data exchange related to multi-lingual character sets have received surprisingly little attention in the digital library community or in discussions of standards for information infrastructure, except in Europe. The landmark collection of papers on Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure, for example, contains no discussion of multi-lingual issues except for a passing reference to the Unicode standard. The goal of this short essay is to draw attention to the multi-lingual issues involved in designing digital libraries accessible on the Internet. Many of the multi-lingual design issues parallel those of multi-media digital libraries, a topic more familiar to most readers of D-Lib Magazine. This essay draws examples from multi-media DLs to illustrate some of the urgent design challenges in creating a globally distributed network serving people who speak many languages other than English. First we introduce some general issues of medium, culture, and language, then discuss the design challenges in the transition from local to global systems, lastly addressing technical matters. The technical issues involve the choice of character sets to represent languages, similar to the choices made in representing images or sound. However, the scale of the language problem is far greater. Standards for multi-media representation are being adopted fairly rapidly, in parallel with the availability of multi-media content in electronic form. By contrast, we have hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of years worth of textual materials in hundreds of languages, created long before data encoding standards existed. Textual content from past and present is being encoded in language and application-specific representations that are difficult to exchange without losing data -- if they exchange at all. We illustrate the multi-language DL challenge with examples drawn from the research library community, which typically handles collections of materials in 400 or so languages. These are problems faced not only by developers of digital libraries, but by those who develop and manage any communication technology that crosses national or linguistic boundaries.

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