An Inside Approach to Networked Document Cataloging

Abstract

Abstract Information professions identified the need for a set of standard metadata almost as soon as the World Wide Web became a reality. Several initiatives have already identified the types of bibliographic information that would be necessary to describe and locate an electronic publication. The descriptors identified in the OCLC/NCSA Dublin Core are combined with those assembled by the Coalition of Networked Information and the Internet Engineering Task Force to produce a list of electronic citation elements. This article advocates embedding these citation elements within electronic documents through the use of HTML tags and other markup techniques. There is also a call to cataloging librarians to contribute their expertise in information resources management to documents being prepared for the World Wide Web in order to influence the quality of electronic publication from the inside.