Knowledge Organisation and Retrieval Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The answer is (ii) and (iii) are correct: apostrophe and point nought.

In the Universal Decimal Classification, special auxiliaries, which apply only within particular classes, are introduced by the hyphen (-), point nought (.0) and apostrophe (').

The colon is a common auxiliary sign of relation, used anywhere in the schedules, and 'sub-grouping' (the square brackets) is a common auxiliary too, so the codes with (i) or (iv) are wrong.

Answer: C

The answer is (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct: carrier type, media type and content type.

RDA replaced AACR2's general material designations with three elements: content type (the form of the content, such as text or still image), media type (the kind of device needed to use it, such as unmediated or computer) and carrier type (the physical carrier, such as volume or online resource). These are mirrored by the MARC fields 336, 337 and 338.

'Context type' is not an RDA element, so the codes including (i) are wrong.

Answer: A

The correct matching is (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(ii).

SLIC (Selective Listing in Combination) was devised by J.R. Sharp in 1966; PRECIS was developed by Derek Austin for the British National Bibliography from 1968; NEPHIS, Nested Phrase Indexing System, was proposed by Timothy Craven in 1977; and COMPASS replaced PRECIS at the BNB in 1990.

Code (D) simply lists the dates in order, and the others misplace PRECIS or COMPASS.

Answer: D

The order is (i), (iii), (iv) and (ii).

Classification schemes are the most rigid, being enumerative and precoordinated. Subject heading lists are also largely precoordinated but allow some combination. Thesauri are built for post-coordinate searching with descriptors and relationships. Ontologies are the most flexible, expressing many kinds of relationships that machines can reason with.

The other codes put ontologies or thesauri at the less flexible end, which reverses this progression.

Answer: B

The portal was launched by Smriti Zubin Irani.

ISBNs in India are allotted by the Raja Rammohun Roy National Agency for ISBN, which then sat under the Ministry of Human Resource Development. Smriti Irani, as the Union HRD Minister, launched its online portal for ISBN registration and allotment in New Delhi in 2016, so publishers and authors could apply online.

Narendra Kohli and Amish Tripathi are novelists, not the ministers responsible for the ISBN agency, and the Prime Minister was not the one who launched this portal.

Answer: D

Preferred headings in Sears are shown in Bold alphabets.

The Sears List of Subject Headings prints the headings authorised for use in boldface type. Terms that are not to be used appear in lightface (ordinary) type with a USE reference to the bold heading that replaces them.

Capitals, underlining and italics are not the device Sears uses to mark authorised headings, so those options are wrong.

Answer: D

The element not in Dublin Core is Place.

The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set has fifteen elements: Title, Creator, Subject, Description, Publisher, Contributor, Date, Type, Format, Identifier, Source, Language, Relation, Coverage and Rights.

Description, Rights and Identifier are all in that list. Place is not an element; the place a resource is about is recorded under Coverage, which covers the spatial and temporal topic of the resource.

Answer: C

The answer is (i) and (ii) are correct: find and identify.

The FRBR study group defined four user tasks: find, identify, select and obtain. The FRANAR working group, in its Functional Requirements for Authority Data, defined four for authority data: find, identify, contextualize and justify.

Only find and identify appear in both lists. Select belongs to FRBR alone and contextualize to FRAD alone, so options with (iii) or (iv) are wrong.

Answer: A

The correct match is a-i, b-iii, c-iv, d-ii.

Dublin Core is maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, DCMI (a-i). e-GMS, the e-Government Metadata Standard, was issued by the Government of the UK (b-iii). METS, the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard, began as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation (c-iv). MODS, the Metadata Object Description Schema, was developed by the Library of Congress (d-ii).

A trap: the Library of Congress also maintains METS today, but METS originated with the DLF, and MODS is the Library of Congress's own schema. Only option A fits.

Answer: D

The order is (i) (ii) (iii) (iv).

In Colon Classification the book number that follows the class number is built in a fixed sequence: first the language number of the book, then the form number showing its form of exposition, then the year number of publication, and then a serial (accession part) number that separates different books of the same year in the same class.

The other options move the year ahead of the form, put the form first, or start with the serial number, none of which follows Ranganathan's rule.