INFORMATION REPRESENTATION FOR THE WEB

A STUDY ON THE USE OF THE RESOURCE DESCRIPTION FRAMEWORK (RDF) IN LIBRARIANSHIP

Abstract

Organizational processes, at the beginning of their development, were carried out by entirely manual techniques and resources, but with the emergence of new technologies, the Information Organization and Representation processes were being modernized and gained new resources, which enabled the construction of new information representation structures, as is the case with the Resource Description Framework, a standard model for exchanging data in the web environment as described by W3C. The present work has as main objective to approach on the use of the Resource Description Framework in the area of ​​Librarianship, applying in a practical way its use in the creation of the representation of the elements of the monographic database of the Librarianship Course of the Federal University of Cariri. Aiming to fulfill the proposed objectives, we first approach the origins of information organization, whose product is the representations, and which enable the retrieval of the information considered most relevant. For this purpose, a bibliographic research is carried out to build the theoretical and experimental basis for creating the new structure in Resource Description Framework, derived from the previously built database. The final representation/mapping of the main table of the monographic database is presented, concluding that the Resource Description Framework can be used not only in the web environment but also for the representation of physical resources and that it is feasible to be used by the area of ​​Librarianship, specifically for information representation, even with local and specific databases, including one of the technologies listed to be adopted as a new bibliographic standard.