Ethics and cataloguing
The paper offers an overview of ethical issues about cataloguing. After a general introduction about the topic in library science, the paper analyses two principal issues: access to information, in particular about semantic access, and data. Ethical issues are a part of the cataloguing process and a...
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Firenze University Press
2019-09-01
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| author | Lucia Sardo |
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| description | The paper offers an overview of ethical issues about cataloguing. After a general introduction about the topic in library science, the paper analyses two principal issues: access to information, in particular about semantic access, and data. Ethical issues are a part of the cataloguing process and affect the way cataloguers create metadata for the users. The last part of the paper presents an analysis of the proposal for a specific code of ethics for cataloguers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b5df257cb0d74b15b14d3053a94951782024-01-24T17:48:05ZengFirenze University PressJLIS.it2038-10262019-09-01103Ethics and cataloguingLucia SardoThe paper offers an overview of ethical issues about cataloguing. After a general introduction about the topic in library science, the paper analyses two principal issues: access to information, in particular about semantic access, and data. Ethical issues are a part of the cataloguing process and affect the way cataloguers create metadata for the users. The last part of the paper presents an analysis of the proposal for a specific code of ethics for cataloguers.http://jlis.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/63EthicsCataloguingAccess to informationCode of ethics |
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| title | Ethics and cataloguing |
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| title_short | Ethics and cataloguing |
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| topic | Ethics Cataloguing Access to information Code of ethics |
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