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Organization of Knowledge Final Exam
Organization of Knowledge Final Exam
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Library Information Skills
Graduate
05/06/2011

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_____ refers to title, dates and bibliographical or administrative history.
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Accession log
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The description, choice of name and title access points, and authority control for names and titles are accomplished in most libraries in the United States and in many other countries through reference to a set of rules called:
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AACR
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Internet search engines display results by relevance, which may calculated by all of the following methods except:
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Assigning weight according to reputation of the author
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Periodical indexes generally do not offer name authority control, but do offer subject authority control.
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True
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_____ have been used, beginning in the late 1800s, as the base upon which to create call numbers to be used for the physical arrangement of books.
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Classification systems
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The Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, second edition:
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Incorporated ISDB
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Museums have recently developed standard means for creating surrogate records called ____.
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Cataloging Cultural Objects
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Indexing can be carried out by people or by machines or by a combination of both. Indexing for article databases is mostly completed by machines.
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False
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In 1876 Melvil Dewey anonymously presented his classification scheme with ______ total categories into which books could be classified.
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1000
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According to the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), the following generic user tasks that the bibliographic record is intended to support are all of the following except:
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To understand the acquisition of the entity
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Information is the communication or reception of knowledge.
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True
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Cutter’s Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue did not address which of the following?
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Place of publication should be an access point
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Charles Cutter said that a library’s catalog should show what the library has according to all of the following except:
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A given publisher
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A bibliographic record primary contains metadata about an author.
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False
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Greek civilization seems to have provided the basis for our Western idea that “main entry” ought to be “author.”
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True
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_____ is something that exists in the mind of the individual who has studied and understands it.
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Knowledge
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If a user knows the title or author of an item they wish to find, they can effectively search the online catalog; this situation is called:
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Known item searching
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Which of the following is not one of Ronald Hagler’s six functions of bibliographic control?
Definition
Providing the means of borrowing each info resource or a copy of it
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Search engines use sophisticated methods for calculating relevance. Google is known for its algorithm that includes the uncommon factor of ____.
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Page rank or website popularity OR Number if search terms found in the abstract ??
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One of the oldest lists of books we know about appears on a tablet that was found in _____ from about 2000 BCE.
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Nippur
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A colophon is a found at the end of a document and gives varying kinds of bibliographic data.
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True
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A fictional mechanical device which stores books, records, and communications and provides flexible and speedy retrieval is called a(n) _____.
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Memex
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The following are forms of catalogs except:
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Bibliography
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Which of the following might be found in a Source Database?
Definition
A JPEG file ??
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Quick retrieval from an information system is achieved through
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The indexing process
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The National Information Standards Organization developed Z39-50, a protocol that establishes how one computer can query another computer and transfer search results.
Definition
True
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Authority control
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Ensures collocation of related bibliographic records
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The Library of Congress is the largest and most comprehensive bibliographic network, which operates as an international, nonprofit membership organizations.
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False
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Databases are organized collections of data that provide the structure that underlies many information systems.
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True
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Descriptive metadata includes which kinds of information?
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Intellectual access information
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The Schema for Rights Declaration is an example of a standard for which type of metadata?
Definition
Administrative
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RDF-structured metadata enables the exchange and reuse of metadata in ways that are semantically unambiguous.
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True
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Metadata can be found in the following places except:
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A namespace
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Metadata is structured information that describes the attributes of information resources for the purposes of identification, discovery, selection, use, access, and management.
Definition
True
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The four entities in the first group of the FRBR model are arranged hierarchically from most general to most specific as:
Definition
Work, expression, manifestation, item
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Application profiles do not
Definition
Create or introduce new metadata elements
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The following are examples of FRBR relationships except:
Definition
Expression-to-manifestation relationship
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The MARC format is the encoding standard used to create bibliographic records stored in library catalogs.
Definition
True
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All of the following are limitations of MARC except:
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It is a mature standard
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Which of the following is not an example of a DTD?
Definition
MARC 21
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Encoding of records allows
Definition
All of these: For the setting apart of individual parts of a record; May languages and scripts to be searched and displayed; Indexing of fields by computers.
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Resource Description and Access (RDA)
Definition
Builds on the conceptual models of FRBR
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A goal of authority control is
Definition
To collocate regardless of terminology used ??
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Authority files are
Definition
Separate from the bibliographic files
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Access points need to be expressed consistently from record to record when several different records use the same word or name as an access point.
Definition
True
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Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD)
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Is a conceptual model like FRBR
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A surrogate record
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Stands in place of an information resource
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Content standards do not
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Provide rules for the transmission of metadata
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The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCEMS) consists of 15 elements that can be divided into three groups: elements related to the transmission of the resource, elements related to the content of the resource, and elements related to the intellectual property aspects of the resource
Definition
False
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Reasons given for choosing a primary access point do not include
Definition
To aid in the weeding of the collection
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The second level of the Group 1 FRBR entities, expression, is the realization of a work in alphanumeric, musical, or choreographic notation; sound; image; object; movement; among others; or a combination of such forms.
Definition
True
Term
A hybrid metadata schema, developed by the Library of Congress’s Network Development and MARC Standards Office that incorporates both encoding rules and a set of named elements is
Definition
Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
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The International Standards for Bibliographic Description (ISBD) contains eight areas of description which does not include:
Definition
Terms of payment
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______ is the part of the metadata creation process that identifies and articulates the subject matter of the information resource being described.
Definition
Subject analysis
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_______ is the measurement of how many of the relevant documents in a system are actually retrieved.
Definition
Recall
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Authorized subject headings could not be found in:
Definition
Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)
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When thinking about exhaustivity, __________ identifies only a dominant overall subject of the item.
Definition
Summarization
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Content characteristics which should be considered include all of the following except:
Definition
Number of pages
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______ is the measurement of how many of the documents retrieved are relevant.
Definition
Precision
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Challenges in subject analysis include all of the following except:
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Timeliness
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Cat, in relation to Siamese cat, is an example of a:
Definition
Broader term
Term
A(n) _______ is an attempt to define the essence of a situation, domain, or conceptual framework.
Definition
Ontology
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A benefit of Natural Language Processing (NLP) is not to:
Definition
Confuse users with predetermined categories
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______ is the aggregation of tags created by a large number of individual users.
Definition
Folksonomy
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Fowl and foul are an example of:
Definition
Homophones
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A _______ is a list or database of subject terms in which all terms or phrases representing a concept are brought together.
Definition
Controlled vocabulary
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Choose the term that is not a category of controlled vocabularies.
Definition
Encyclopedia
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When tagging, tags assigned to a resource could be based on subject, form, purpose, time, tasks or status, and affective or critical reactions.
Definition
True
Term
The ______ requires that terms have explicit meaning so that machines can automatically process information found on the Web.
Definition
Semantic Web
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In the example Adultery (Yanzi law), (Yanzi law) is a:
Definition
Narrower term
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