Three-Dimensional Serials; or, How I Learned to Love Content Management on the Web

• Published in: The Serials librarian Vol. 42; no. 1-2; pp. 101 - 114
• Main Author: Seys, Debora
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Taylor & Francis Group 25.06.2002; Haworth Press; Taylor & Francis LLC
• Subjects: Bibliographic data bases; Bibliographic description. Cataloging. Referencing; Content management; Electronic periodicals; Electronic publishing; Exact sciences and technology; Information and communication sciences; Information and document structure and analysis; Information management; Information processing and retrieval; Information publishing, dissemination and reproduction; Information science. Documentation; Publishing. Electronic publishing. Bibliological aspects; Sciences and techniques of general use; Electronic publishing; Serial; Content management; Electronic periodical; World wide web; Bibliographic control; Internet resource
• ISSN: 0361-526X; 1541-1095
• DOI: 10.1300/J123v42n01_11

Seys updates her vision of the similarities between the interesting bibliographic problems presented by serials and how these concepts can help us to understand and solve some of the questions that arise as a result of the revolutionary nature of publishing on the Web. Building on concepts introduced in last year's talk, Seys will extend the discussion to include an examination of the new world of Web "Content Management" and what changes this type of publishing will bring to our ability to provide bibliographic control and access for these new forms of text on the Web. In this new world, writers create "chunks" of content, software distributes it in various forms to multiple interfaces, and each user can see a unique text. This creates what Seys is calling a three-dimensional text. As this type of publishing becomes the norm, users will need less help in navigating to an individual bibliographic entity and more help in navigating the relationships between the content "chunks" and the ideas and meaning they embody.