Information Model «Ukrainian Bibliography in Persons» as Determinant of Modern Information Society

Abstract

The purpose of the article. The study of the peculiarities of the representation and existence of bibliographic and biobibliographic data on the background of the information society. The latter corresponds to the specific functioning of the electronic library, the structural part of the information model “Ukrainian Bibliography in Persons”. The research methodology consists in using of comparative and historical-logical methods. This methodological approach allows us to disclose and analyse certain models of information about the anthropological component in the social relations provided by libraries. Scientific novelty of the work consists in the special construction of the information model “UBP”, which emphasises biographical data, consistently associated with other sources of information, in particular with biobibliographic, biographical, and thesaurus as well. Conclusions. The development of the general concept of building an open, integrated electronic bibliographic resource “UBP” provides that it is appropriate to develop on a corporate basis a series of leading libraries that need to ensure a permanent match of software and hardware with modern standards, a unified and simple user interface and remote access support. It also helps develop criteria for the selection of documents, unified description, and the cataloging of electronic documents, correlation of the description with the original; information integrity and guaranties of its permanent and continuous delivery to consumers, constant content analysis of the online reference sources, scientific libraries of Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora websites as well, identify and digitise retrospective sources of Ukrainian bibliography.

Keywords: information models, information society, bibliography, biobibliography, Ukrainian bibliography in persons.