The Modern Concept of Cataloging and Catalogues and the Revolution of Change

Section: Research Paper
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
337-374

Abstract

Cataloging and catalogues are considered as one of the fields that are most affected by the big revolution that occurred on the information technology that represented by internet revolution and the absolute supremacy that the net environment imposed on the resources of the informations and the procedures to process and access them. And the last ten years in particular have got a great massiveness in the path of electronic publication that is represented by the big size of the vessels of the electronic informations with the both of their material form and their visual form that is on the millions of websites on the internet. This big development in the electronic publication has been accompanied with similar development that is represented by the methods of the electronic control on informations flow and what they contain from standards, soft wares, languages and samples, etc. All these methods have appeared in new forms and patterns that mostly differ from their previous versions that are now considered traditional, for example, Anglo_ American Cataloging Rules AACR were replaced by Resource Description and Access RDA, even if it was originally a complement to Anglo_ American rules , as well the readable cataloging was came with differences and big updates in 20th century through what it depends on from new coding languages like Hyper Text Markup Languages and Extensible Markup Language and others, so it fits with the special nature of the electronic informations resources , also the sample of the functional requirement bibliographic record has appeared as a sample that describes collecting the different entities in the bibliographic medium and clears up the bibliographic relationships between them.

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AlKhero, R., رفل, Mohamed, M., & محمود. (2025). The Modern Concept of Cataloging and Catalogues and the Revolution of Change. Adab Al-Rafidayn, 50(83), 337–374. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.2020.167455