1. Cataloging the Internet
Successes and the Future

2. * "The World Wide Web (or the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents that runs over the Internet. With a Web browser, a user views Web pages that may contain text, images, and other multimedia and navigates between them using hyperlinks." (Wikipedia)

3. World Wide Web is governed by:
Three standards:
URL – Uniform Resource Locator
HTTP – HyperText Transfer Protocol
HTML – HyperText Markup Language
But, contains no Knowledge Infrastructure
No Classification System
Data is unstructured
No content information linked to data

4. Internet Retrieval Systems
Vary widely in design
Built upon different protocols
Lack controlled vocabularies
No authority control
Incompatible with other systems

5. Subject Gateways A Cataloger’s Approach
Based upon resource description
Supports systematic resource discovery through the application of traditional library tools
Taxonomies, usually subject-based
Thesauri
Controlled vocabularies
Entry vocabularies
Authority control
Metadata – “Data about data”

6. Dublin Core Used in OCLC’s CORC
Captures 13 characteristics about the data:
Title
Creator
Subject
Description
Publisher
Date
Language
May be mapped into MARC Records
The emergence of a metadata quality vocabulary could allow its use as a quality assurance of web site content.

7. Practical Issues Consistent information in MARC Records
URL maintenance – Link checking
Web page movement
Web page changes in content

8. Globalization of Information
Demand for interoperability of:
Thesauri
Authority Records
Controlled vocabularies
New platform technologies
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Unicode Standard
International standards for all library tools