Short description:

This guide aims to improve the principles of the third generation of cataloguing and, more widely, to contribute to the shift of paradigm related to the emerging bibliographic ecosystem. Readers will learn the importance of adopting new methods to remain relevant in modern and international settings, which will empower them to approach and apply entity modelling with greater confidence.

Long description:

Combining theory and practical knowledge, this guide aims to improve the principles of the third generation of cataloguing and, more widely, to contribute to the shift of paradigm related to the emerging bibliographic ecosystem. The concepts, practices and benefits discussed are transversal and international, offering readers the opportunity to create a new level of international cooperation which will enable them to share responsibility for the quality and maintenance of knowledge and information. Readers will learn the importance of adopting new methods to remain relevant in modern and international settings, which will empower them to approach and apply entity modelling with greater confidence.

Aimed at library and information professionals, who are interested in broadening their knowledge of cataloguing.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Philip E. Schreur

Preface by Maurizio Vivarelli

Preface by Carlo Bianchini

Introduction by Mauro Guerrini

The Context

I. I Contain Multitudes

1. Introduction
2. Questions to resolve
3. Entity and Identity
4. Diachronic and synchronic identities in the bibliographic universe
5. Conclusions on the concepts of entity and identity

II. The World is My Representation

1. Introduction
2. On the record: the declaration of a new course to adapt to the language of the web
3. What is a real world object?
4. Entity resolution and entity modelling
5. Conclusions on the transition from record to entity modeling

III. PANTA REI, OR ABOUT THE FLUIDITY OF THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE

1. Introduction
2. The entity as a prism
3. Grasping things in their changing
4. Examples of emerging entities in the field of cataloguing
5. Transience of intrinsic properties, persistence of relational properties
6. Conclusions

IV. O ROMEO, ROMEO, WHEREFORE ART THOU ROMEO?

1. Introduction
2. The Agent in the cataloguing tradition
3. The treatment of popes in the cataloguing tradition
4. Conclusions on entity modeling and the significance of changing collective mindsets

Final Reflections