Please join us at the ALCTS CaMMS Copy Cataloging Interest Group meeting at ALA in Orlando!
When: Saturday, June 25th 8:30a-10a Where: Orange County Convention Center, Room W206C Vocabulary Development for Local Use Diane Hillmann, Metadata Management Associates LLC and blogger at "Metadata Matters" Vocabulary management has become a hot topic, with lots of potential to meet local needs. As libraries and other cultural institutions examine how to move beyond the strictures of traditional data sharing, local vocabularies start looking like a sensible investment. Development, publishing and maintenance of standards-compliant vocabularies can be a daunting prospect for working librarians without a background in that area, but there are tools available to help. The presenter will address the decisions, tools, and strategies behind local vocabulary development, publishing and distribution. Linked Data for Production: A New Production Workflow for Vendor Supplied Copy-Cataloging Philip E. Schreur, Stanford University Linked Data for Production (LD4P) is a collaboration between six institutions (Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Library of Congress, Princeton, and Stanford) to begin the transition of technical services production workflows to ones based in Linked Open Data (LOD). As part of its institutional projects, Stanford will be looking at four key production workflows and redefining them as tracer bullets. According to the Agile Dictionary, a tracer bullet is a set of work where interfaces are developed from beginning to end of a process. These interfaces may be very simplified or may just pass through. The purpose of the tracer bullet is to examine how an end-to-end process will work and examine feasibility. Over 80% of Stanford's monographs come in with some sort of copy and the first production workflow we will redefine will originate with vendor-supplied copy. The entire production chain will be converted, from acquisitions to discovery, with potential benefits to our patrons noted as part of our discovery layer. Here Lies: Issues in the Copy Cataloging of Holocaust Denial Literature Catherine Oliver, Northern Michigan University Northern Michigan University’s Lydia M. Olson Library is well-known for its Holocaust Collection, which comprises books, films, sound recordings, and electronic resources that focus on Holocaust and genocide studies. Recently, the library decided to begin collecting Holocaust denial literature, an endeavor that has posed some copy-cataloging challenges. In this presentation, the speaker will discuss some of the issues faced while processing these materials, among them a dearth of good-quality records and confusion on appropriate classification numbers and subject headings. The latter is an especially difficult topic, as the Library of Congress Subject Headings ‘Holocaust denial literature’ and ‘Holocaust denial’ are frequently confused and there are ambiguities as to their application. -- Leanne Finnigan Database Management Librarian Cataloging & Metadata Services Temple University Libraries 215-204-3274 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
