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On the problem of electronic publications (A. Knoll) ... p. 173-177
The article is based on a detailed study of latest publications and on the practical work of the digitization program of the National Library of the Czech Republic: it is a short introduction to the world of electronic publications. It calls attention to the newest trends and approaches in their structuring and use of metadata in compound document. It explains the principle of the object-oriented structure of the digital document and it recommends use of SGML. A practical typology of digital documents is given and questions of their preservation and long-term access to them are discussed. The author lists various types of approaches to handle digital document.
Metadata as a new means for the communication of web information resources (E. Bratková) ... p. 178-195
The problems of metadata (information about information) implementation in the overall communication of web information resources on the Internet are the current and highly discussed question of today. In the first part the author deals with their basis, functions, forms and meaning. The differences between metadata and catalogue records are specified. The character of meta- data in the future "semantic web" as machine understandable information about web resources is emphasized. The core of the article is devoted to information about the most important foreign metadata formats (e.g. TEl, EAD, CIMI, GILS, IAFA etc.). The development and current state of the Dublin Core (DC) semantics are presented in details. The last part introduces the Resource Description Framework (RDF) which is the application of new markup language XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and which should become the common syntax of many applications including Dublin Core in behalf of their interoperability.
A draft for recommendation for library legislation in Europe (V. Richter) ... p. 196-199
The published draft of Recommendations for library legislation in Europe was elaborated by the Commission for Cultural Co-operation of the Council of Europe. The Recommendations are now subjected to professional disputes and were also chosen as a theme of two international conferences (in Strasbourg in November 1998 and in München in May 1999). The international workshop of countries of the East-European Initiative which will take place in Prague on 19-20 November 1999 will also deal with this theme. It is supposed that in the following stage the Recommendations will be discussed and approved by a Council of ministers of culture of the Council of Europe.
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Conference on Historical and Scarce Collections of the 16th - 19th centuries in Museums, Libraries, and Archives of the Czech Republic (V. Bartůšek) ... p. 200
CASLIN '99 Workshop (G. Krčmařová) ... p. 201
LIBER annual conference In Prague ... p. 201
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ON ACTIVITIES OF MUSIC LIBRARIES - IAML |
On the activity of the Czech National IAML Group (J. Hůlek) ... p. 203
Monograph on J. K. Krumpholtz (J. Hůlek) ... p. 204
Course In machine readable catalogization of music iconography (E. Paulová) ... p. 205
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INFORMATION, CHRONICLE, REVIEWS |
North-Bohemian region in print on CD-ROM (A. Brožek) ... p. 206
Brief communications ... p. 207
| FOREIGN LIBRARY LITERATURE NEWS ... p. 209-215 |
