{"id":2172,"date":"2007-10-30T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T17:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=425"},"modified":"2007-10-30T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T17:01:09","slug":"bibliographic-entity-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/bibliographic-entity-relationships.html","title":{"rendered":"Bibliographic Entity-Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/02519757456533839003\">Karen Coyle<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/kcoyle.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/bibliographic-er.html\">written a post on Coyle&#8217;s InFormation<\/a> that I feel greatly helps to explain why it can be so complex to structure bibliographic information.<\/p>\n<p>I first encountered <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Entity-relationship_model\">Entity-Relationships<\/a> (note:\u00a0 right now this link is not a great introduction to the concept, but provides some good examples) when learning to create queries and reports from a Voyager database.\u00a0 It was intimidating, to say the least, but was one of several steps that proved to be extremely helpful.<\/p>\n<p>The diagrams, for whatever they represent, usually mirror the complexity of the system they represent.\u00a0 They oftentimes are the most effective way to show this.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding this complexity in bibliographic structure is important, I feel, because it allows us library types to better evaluate the tools that we use and select.\u00a0 An OPAC search screen, or an ILS module, or any program we use is more useful when its structure better fits the entity-relationship that already exists for our materials.\u00a0 A spreadsheet is great for certain types of information and presentation; a word processor for others.\u00a0 A program that doesn&#8217;t fit the structure so well tends to be &#8220;clunky&#8221; to use in that context.<\/p>\n<p>Read her post.\u00a0 Repeat as necessary.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t feel that you need to memorize the detail, or be able to re-create her diagrams.\u00a0 Simply get the gist of what she has put into words and pictures, and know that it will help you in your daily work, and in your understanding of how things work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Coyle has written a post on Coyle&#8217;s InFormation that I feel greatly helps to explain why it can be so complex to structure bibliographic information. I first encountered Entity-Relationships (note:\u00a0 right now this link is not a great introduction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/bibliographic-entity-relationships.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2921,2927,2943,2971],"tags":[3337,3639,3640,4679],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-definitions","category-libraries","category-training","tag-karen-coyle","tag-search-screen","tag-word-processor","tag-word-processor-for-others"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-z2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}