RDA Cataloging on Google+

There is a Google+ Community for RDA Cataloging, a place to share ideas. For example, currently there is a template for a corporate body name.

RDA Cataloging is an online community/group/forum for library and information science students, professionals and cataloging & metadata librarians. It is a place where people can get together to share ideas, trade tips and tricks, share resources, get the latest news, and learn about Resource Description and Access (RDA), a new cataloging standard to replace AACR2

SCATNews

The December issue of SCATNews (38) has been published. In this issue:

• Letter from the Chair - Hanne Hørl Hansen
• Bulgarian Cataloguing Practices - Milena Milanov
• MulDiCat - Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloguing Terms - Anders Cato
• An introduction to the ALA-LC Romanization Tables - Bruce Chr. Johnson
• Hacking the OPAC with Excel - Niklas Willén
• Linked Open Data Seminar - Gordon Dunsire
• News from the Library of Congress - Susan R. Morris
• The German Translation of RDA is Online - Susanne Oehlschläger
• Cataloguing Apparantly "A Never Ending Story". The Experience of the Vatican Library In Retrospective Conversion - Luigina Orlandi
• Norwegian National Authorities Included in VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) - Frank B. Haugen
• Open Access to Cataloguing Rules - Marian Violeta Bertolini
• Results from the SCATNews Survey - Agnese Galeffi and Unni Knutsen
• Call for papers - WLIC 2013- Audiovisual and Multimedia Section and Cataloguing Section: Macro and Micro : Ways through the Maze
• LIS´2013- Workshop on Classification and Subject Indexing in Library and Information Science, Luxemburg

MARBI Papers and Agenda Available for Review

Proposal 2013-01: Identifying Titles Related to the Entity Represented by the Authority Record in the MARC 21 Authority Format

Proposal 2013-02: New Fields to Accommodate Authority Records for Medium of Performance Vocabulary for Music in the MARC 21 Authority Format

Proposal 2013-03: Making Field 250 Repeatable in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format

Proposal 2013-04: Defining New Code for Score in Field 008/20 (Format of music) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format

Proposal 2013-05: Defining New Field 385 for Audience Characteristics in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats

Proposal 2013-06: Defining New Field 386 for Creator/Contributor Group Categorizations in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats

Proposal 2013-07: Defining Encoding Elements to Record Chronological Categories and Dates of Works and Expressions in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats

Discussion Paper 2013-DP01: Identifying Records from National Bibliographies in MARC 21 Bibliographic Format

Discussion Paper 2013-DP02: Defining Subfields for Qualifiers to Standard Identifiers in the MARC 21 Bibliographic, Authority, and Holdings formats

Discussion Paper 2013-DP03: Defining a Control Subfield $7 in the Series Added Entry Fields, for the Type and the Bibliographic Level of the Related Bibliographic Record

Discussion Paper 2013-DP04: Separating the Type of Related Entity from the RDA Relationship Designator in MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Linking Entry Fields

The MARBI ALA Midwinter Conference 2013 agenda is available at: http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/mw2013_age.html

Christmas Metadata

What is metadata? A Christmas themed exploration by Bonnie Swoger appears as a recent Scientific American weblog post. Cute.

I think we can agree that Santa would use sound data management practices, including the creation and use of proper metadata, to keep track of his gift giving and logistical data. He would want the rest of us to use good metadata so we can always locate that 30 year old picture of him, too.

Be like Santa and make sure your data is findable and re-useable: use good metadata!

Gary Price of InfoDocket brought this to my attention.

GPO to Switch to RDA in April

Another major cataloging institution, the GPO, plans to switch to the RDA standard in April.

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has created a Resource Description and Access (RDA) implementation team to ensure a smooth transition from AACR2 to RDA. GPO cataloging staff are continuing their training efforts, and are now working on sample record creation, the identification of local practices and formal PCC (Program for Cooperative Cataloging) review. Full implementation is expected in April, 2013.

I was made aware of this by Gary Price of InfoDocket.

NISO Teleconference - NCIP

The next NISO teleconference; will be on the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP).

NISO will hold its next open teleconference in our monthly series this coming Monday, December 10th at 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.

The topic for the November call will be NCIP (NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol, also known as Z39.83), which is a North American standard with implementations in the US, Canada, and many other countries around the world. NCIP services facilitate the automation of tasks, the exchange of data, the ability to provide information to library staff, and the empowerment of patrons. Each service is comprised of a request from an initiating application and a reply from a responding application. It is possible for a single software application to play both the initiation and responding roles, but typically there are at least two applications involved.

The Standard itself consists of two parts; Part 1: Protocol defines a protocol that is limited to the exchange of messages between and among computer-based applications to enable them to perform the functions necessary to lend and borrow items, to provide controlled access to electronic resources, and to facilitate co-operative management of these functions. Part 2: Implementation Profile defines a practical implementation structure for NCIP. Version 2.02 of these documents was published in 2012 and is available via http://www.niso.org/workrooms/ncip. The Standing Committee maintains further informational pages at http://www.ncip.info/

Mike Dicus, Product Manager at Ex Libris and chair of the NCIP Standing Committee, will participate on the teleconference to discuss the group's work and answer any questions.

The call is free and anyone is welcome to participate. To join, simply dial 877-375-2160 and enter the code: 17800743#. All calls are held from 3-4 p.m. Eastern time.

searchRetrieve Version 1.0

There was Z39.50, then SRU/SRW, then A9. now comes searchRetrieve V1.0.

searchRetrieve Version 1.0 is a multi-part specification that defines a generic protocol for the interaction required between a client and server for performing searches.

Part 1, the Abstract Protocol Definition (APD) defines a model and a generic protocol for the interaction between a client and server for performing searches. It facilitates interoperability between different search protocols by providing a common framework and terminology for describing these search protocols. The intention is that all search protocols can be regarded as concrete implementations of this definition.

The 60-day public review has started and ends 14 January 2013.

OLAC 2014

OLAC is looking for a host for the 2014 conference.

The Board of OLAC is now accepting proposals to host the 2014 OLAC Conference. If you are interested, please read the summary of guidelines below and at: http://www.olacinc.org/drupal/?q=node/58#committeeformation.

According to our practice of varying the geographical region of the host city, the 2014 conference should be held somewhere in the Midwest.

Hosting an OLAC conference is:

• Detail-oriented: perfect for catalogers
  
• A great way to meet very interesting people
  
• If you’re going to organize a conference, this is a great one to organize, because OLAC is relatively small and very friendly
  
• The OLAC board offers LOTS of support (some call it hand-holding)
  
• You get to spend money that isn’t yours—but you do have to spend it on the conference
  
• You get to tour hotels and make menu choices
  
• If you are shy, you get to adopt the more comfortable role of host
  
• You will be popular—people will gravitate towards you to ask questions—but you do have to solve problems, too
  
• You will make new friends and meet possible collaborators
  
• It looks great on your resume!

We look forward to hearing from interested parties, and to receiving proposals no later than January 18, 2013.

Japanese Romanization Table Revision Approved

News ffrom LC.

The ALA-LC Romanization tables are developed jointly by the Library of Congress (LC) and the American Library Association (ALA). Romanization schemes enable the cataloging of foreign language materials. Romanized cataloging in turn supports circulation, acquisitions, serials check-in, shelflisting, shelving, and reference, particularly in library catalogs that are unable to display non-roman alphabet information.

The ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Materials (CC:AAM) recently received and reviewed a proposal to revise the Japanese romanization table. The table has subsequently been approved. The revised Japanese romanization table is now available for downloading from the ALA-LC Romanization Tables webpage http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html.

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

Interesting take on libraries, "the books, and the dust and the sadness."

PCC Relationship Designator Guidelines Task Group Report

The PCC Relationship Designator Guidelines Task Group Report was recently published.

It has always been one of the main functions of the library catalogue to relate resources to other entities. Main and added entries express relationships between persons or organizations and the resources for which they are responsible, and other devices such as analytical added entries, uniform titles, linking entries, and series headings are all ways of expressing defined sets of relationships among resources themselves.

The relationship designators in RDA should be seen as an evolution of these devices. But where MARC captures a relatively limited set of relationships, largely those applicable to traditional library collections, the RDA relationship designators establish a framework to express a potentially much richer set of relationships. In addition, the linked data environment in which RDA relationship designators are intended to be implemented may eventually offer more powerful ways of handling relationships.

Off Topic - Allegiance Construction Group

I'm going off topic to warn everyone of Allegiance Construction Group of Houston Texas. This is a new name for them. They used to be AF Construction. Under that name they received a F rating from the Better Business Bureau. Under that name they were also dropped by Service Magic. They changed names and placed ownership of the new company in the name of the wife of the former owner of AF Construction. They very well may have used other names before AF Construction. Reynaldo Hernandez (Ray Hernandez) has a office on 10030 Blackhawk Blvd Houston, TX 77089. If you find any of this matches someone you are considering hiring find someone else.

Malay Romanization Tables

LC is looking for comments on the new Malay Romanization tables.

The Policy and Standards Division of the Library of Congress has received a revision proposal for the Malay (in Jawi-Arabic script) ALA-LC romanization table from LC's Jakarta Office. Based on feedback from current users, a couple of additional changes to the table have been made, and the table has been renamed "Jawi / Pegon romanization table". The table's name change acknowledges that it covers more than simply the Malay language.

The revision proposal http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman_malay_proposal.pdf (PDF, 129 KB) highlights all additions and changes. A separate document
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman_malay_explanation.doc (DOC, 48 KB) enumerates changes in the revision proposal.

QR Code Books

Just curious has anyone cataloged any of these books converted to QR Codes?

Metadata Object Description Schema Conversions Tools

News from the Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress.

A new set of MODS 3.4 XSLT 2.0 stylesheets has been added to our MODS Conversions page http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods-conversions.html for community testing and review. These new XSLT 2.0 stylesheets are based on the mappings made available by the Library of Congress on the same page.

The conversions include:

• DC to MODS 3.4
  
• MARCXML to MODS 3.4
  
• MODS 3.4 to DC
  
• MODS 3.4 to HTML
  
• MODS 3.4 to MARCXML

Bibliographic Framework

LC has released Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data: Linked Data Model and Supporting Services.

The Library of Congress officially launched its Bibliographic Framework Initiative in May 2011. The Initiative aims to re-envision and, in the long run, implement a new bibliographic environment for libraries that makes "the network" central and makes interconnectedness commonplace. Prompted in no small part by the desire to embrace new cataloging norms, it is essential that the library community redevelop its bibliographic data models as part of this Initiative. Toward that objective, this document presents a high-level model for the library community for evaluation and discussion, but it is also important to consider this document within a much broader context, and one that looks well beyond the library community....

The new, proposed model is simply called BIBFRAME, short for Bibliographic Framework.
The new model is more than a mere replacement for the library community's current model/format, MARC. It is the foundation for the future of bibliographic description that happens on, in, and as part of the web and the networked world we live in. It is designed to integrate with and engage in the wider information community while also serving the very specific needs of its maintenance community - libraries and similar memory organizations.

Semantic Web in Libraries Livestream

Towards an international LOD library ecosystem, this year's Semantic Web in Libraries conference will be live streamed.

For this years SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference in Cologne, we strive to provide a video livestream:

At 27./28. November, from 8 to 16.30 (GMT) on the conference homepage,

http://swib.org/swib12/

There you also find information about the schedule and the conference in general (which is organized by hbz and ZBW again). The conference language is English. #swib12 on Twitter.

Digital Public Library of America

Digital Public Library of America meeting and hackfest in Northern Virginia.

On December 6, 2012, the Digital Public Library of America will have two concurrent and interwoven events at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. The Audience and Participation workstream will be holding a meeting that will be livestreamed, and next door those interested in fleshing out what might be done with the DPLA will hold a hackfest, which follows on a similar, successful event last month in Chattanooga, TN. (Here are some of the apps that were built.)

Anyone who is interested in experimenting with the DPLA—from creating apps that use the library’s metadata to thinking about novel designs to bringing the collection into classrooms—is welcome to attend or participate from afar. The hackfest is not limited to those with programming skills, and we welcome all those with ideas, notions, or the energy to collaborate in envisioning novel uses for the DPLA.

The Center for History and New Media will provide spaces for a group as large as 30 in the main hacking space, with couches, tables, whiteboards, and unlimited coffee. There will also be breakout areas for smaller groups of designers and developers to brainstorm and work. We ask that anyone who would like to attend the hackfest please register in advance via this registration form.

COinS at Wikipedia

Wikipedia has recently stopped using COinS.

There have been many complaints (e.g. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19262) that articles take too long to render. For articles with many citations, the obvious low-hanging fruit is COINS metadata. For example, Muammar Gaddafi takes 28.3 seconds to parse, but with COINS removed, it takes 22.2 seconds.
Nobody ever held a straw poll asking the community "can we please make article parsing 27% slower in order to support a rarely-used metadata feature?" I'm sure that data can be provided in some other way. So I would like to remove it. -- Tim Starling (talk) 06:10, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Users of Zotero and LibX have raised objections. COinS may be brought back when Wikipedia does some system improvements. If you have any feelings on the matter (COinS are necessary, should be replaced by a better schema, etc.) join the discussion.

NISO's ResourceSync Initiative Teleconference

NISO teleconference.

NISO will hold its next open teleconference in our monthly series this coming Monday, November 19th at 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.

The topic for the November call will be the ResourceSync initiative, which is a joint NISO and Open Archives Initiative (OAI) project to research, develop, prototype, test, and deploy mechanisms for the large-scale synchronization of web resources. More information on this Working Group can be found at http://www.niso.org/workrooms/resourcesync/.

ResourceSync builds on the OAI-PMH strategies for synchronizing metadata; this project will enhance that specification using modern web technologies, and will allow for the synchronization of the objects themselves, not just their metadata. The Web is highly dynamic, with resources continuously being created, updated, deleted, and moved. Web applications that leverage third party resources face the challenge of keeping in step with this rate of change. Many such applications are not concerned with accurate coverage of a server's resources or consider delays in reflecting changes acceptable. In these cases, alignment with the dynamics of a remote server is commonly achieved by optimizing web crawling and resource discovery mechanisms, for example through scheduling crawls based on change frequency prediction. However, there are significant use cases that require more real-time and accurate synchronization.