Volume 8, Issue 8 (August 2021), Pages: 58-62

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Geographic information systems representations in resources description and access (RDA)

 Author(s): Yaser Mohammad Mohammad Al Sawy ^1, *, Hisham Saad Zaghloul ²

 Affiliation(s):

 ¹General Curriculum Department, College of Education and Arts, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia
 ²Deanship of Preparatory and Supportive Studies, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3150-9497

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.08.008

 Abstract:

The study aimed at linking geographic information systems and their use in library and information science, as they represent spatial and geographical information represented in processing in machine-readable cataloging (MARC) fields, which are represented in the Resources Description and Access in the form of an internationally agreed drawing or scheme, and geographic information is of interest to a wide range of beneficiaries in various fields, and to develop work in the field of libraries and information in light of the rules for characterization and availability of resources and in view of the lack of previous studies dealing with this topic; It was necessary to think about good planning to equip libraries and information centers at a high level so that they would be able to deal with information sources and the correct representation of geographical data through geographic information systems, the study was keen to apply the standards of the analytical and applied approach where all the appropriate fields to represent data geographically are reviewed. and the application of the appropriate subfields to it, the study reached the possibility of using the field 651 specifically and activating the hyperlink feature through it to display more links that include drawings, maps, data, and vital statistics associated with it, and thus the field 651 turns into an interactive feature to display bibliography, geography and information data with linking to all Pages and links via the Internet or in full-text databases as well as abstract databases, and innovative addition to the performance of field 651 to become a descriptive field and a tool for geographical and informational representation at the same time. 

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Geographic information systems, Resources description and access, Machine-readable cataloging, Integrated library systems

 Article History: Received 18 February 2021, Received in revised form 2 May 2021, Accepted 18 May 2021

 Acknowledgment 

The authors gratefully acknowledge the approval and the support of this research study by grant no. 6952-EAR-2017-1-7-F from the Deanship of Scientific Research at Northern Border University, Arar, K.S.A.

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Al Sawy YMM and Zaghloul HS (2021). Geographic information systems representations in resources description and access (RDA). International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(8): 58-62

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