Online Catalogs in the Literature

Topics identified from literature for prior ALA meetings:

This is a random list of subjects which occur in the bibliography. Committee members and interns may have additions to this list.

June 1998:

• Cataloged Internet Resources - design and development for access to Keyword Searching in a University Online Catalog
  
• Delivering arts and humanities data in electronic environments - issues involved in creating, managing such a system
  
• Cataloging - lack of a multiple version solution
  
• Search Term Selection - models
  
• Non-standardized display formats - standardization
  
• Automated summarization techniques -application to cataloging or metadata for Internet documents and documents in other databases
  
• Relevancy ranking of search results
  
• Improving user interfaces
  
• Adding intermediary databases to assist users in selecting appropriate search terms
  
• Subject gateways - development and structuring of Toolkits for building digital libraries on the World Wide Web
  
• Annotated, subject-specific link sites
  
• SGML and the USMARXC Standard
  
• Summary holdings statements being made obsolete by ILS possibility for item details
  
• Metadata, metadata, metadata!
  
• Dublin Core
  
• Digital object identifiers (Patrick supplied a list of useful URLs for understanding digital object identifiers. Though I did not include in the bibliography, they are available for the committee's examination)
  
• Integrating metadata from Web resources into our library catalogs and provide our users with "one-stop" shopping
  
• Performance in a Hypertext Bibliographic Retrieval System
  

June 1997:

• Automated cutter assignment
  
• Automation software for developing countries
  
• Best Search Engines
  
• Best IOLS
  
• Best Meta-search tools
  
• Cross mapping subject heading systems
  
• Foreign language character sets
  
• Fourth Dublin Core Workshop
  
• Future of Z39.50
  
• "Homebrew" OPAC creation
  
• Image/video database search tools
  
• Multilinguality
  
• New opportunities for resource discovery in networked environments
  
• Importance of providing access to traditional library resources by enriching bibliographic records for older library materials
  
• P.A.C.E. (an interface simulating books on library shelves)
  
• Protecting digital library catalog information and users
  
• Relational database design
  
• Spelling errors in searches and designing software that anticipates them
  
• Sound databases which search for music when the searcher sings notes into a microform
  
• "Windows NT" operating system environment for OPACs
  

January 1997:

• Subject searching trees
  
• Personal-name access
  
• Linking Full-Text Databases to the library catalog
  
• Electronic security and property rights management
  
• Subject management solutions in a virtual library catalog
  
• Personal name management solutions in a virtual library catalog
  
• New guiding cataloging principles
  
• Bringing the “universe of bibliographical information” directly to the library end-user
  
• Providing virtual access to multimedia resources
  
• Good ol' authority control
  
• Smart interfaces to guide end-users to utilize indexes most efficiently
  
• Guidelines for the display of catalog information
  
• Metadata

July 1996:

• Embedding Metadata in HTML
  
• Approaches to organizing Internet Resources
  
• Multiple non-Roman scripts in an online catalog
  
• Digital Library Projects
  
• Student use of online catalogs
  
• Access to abstract resources
  
• Constructing and linking of images and records with hypertext markers
  
• Cataloger's role in catalog construction
  
• Effectiveness of graphical user interface in online catalogs
  
• New designs for subject access to online catalogs
  
• SGML applications for local journal article databases
  
• Exchange of bibliographical data, document ordering, and publishing on the WWW
  
• One stop shopping workstations
  
• ADA compliance and online catalogs
  
• Authority files in online catalogs
  
• Reexamination of principles, i.e., cataloging codes, main entry, etc.
  
• Z39.50 protocol

January 1996:

• Hot-linked Tables of Contents
  
• Hot-linked 856 fields
  
• Online catalog user self-sufficiency
  
• Impact of automation on the library user
  
• Impact of electronic catalogs on design and space utilization
  
• Electronic reserves
  
• Supercatalogs
  
• Copyright ownership in the online environment
  
• Incorporating full-text into the online catalog
  
• Teaching online bibliographic skills
  
• User satisfaction and the online catalog
  
• Microcomputer workstations
  
• A national infrastructure and networks
  
• Effectiveness of keyword searching
  
• Retrieval tools ("meta" tools)
  
• Inter-institutional consortia
  
• Web OPACs
  
• TULIP Project
  
• Telecommuting
  
• Expert system applications for cataloging
  
• Outsourcing Cataloging (OCLC's TechPro)
  
• Indexing the Internet
  
• Automatic classification of material

June 1995:

• URL/URI
  
• MARC 856 tag
  
• OCLC cataloging Internet resources project
  
• Cataloging resources on Web Home Pages
  
• Digitization of catalog records
  
• Expert systems and the online catalog
  
• Searching effectiveness / Strategies on the online catalog

February 1995:

• Multilingual searching capability
  
• Expert systems
  
• Internet interfaces
  
• Images / Multimedia
  
• Systems of arranging other than alphabetical (i.e., document ranking, subset ranking, adaptive filtering)
  
• Graphical user interface