is cataloging dead: advocacy for bibliographic control
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Is Cataloging Dead: Advocacy for Bibliographic Control. Randy Roeder and Rebecca Routh ILA/ACRL Spring Conference Davenport, Iowa March 3, 2008. What catalogers do …. “What catalogers are like …. “Set in their ways” “Blindly follow the rules” “Cranky, anti-social” - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Is Cataloging Dead: Advocacy for Bibliographic Control
Randy Roeder and Rebecca RouthILA/ACRL Spring Conference
Davenport, IowaMarch 3, 2008
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What catalogers do …
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“What catalogers are like …
• “Set in their ways”
• “Blindly follow the rules”
• “Cranky, anti-social”
• “Put the periods in the records.”
• “Nit-picky perfectionists”
• “Out of date when it’s out of backlog.”
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What catalogers hear from others…
• “Description is not important”
• “No one does subject searches”
• “Full text searching makes metadata obsolete”
• “Cataloging is too expensive”
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So, how did we get to this disconnect?
(made buggy whip obsolete)
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The chains of the past …
• MARC
• AACR2
• local practice
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LCSH is showing its age …
• largest controlled vocabulary in English language (good)
• designed for an alphabetical environment (bad)
• pre-coordinated (bad)
• often too general
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“Failures of catalogers …”
• assume the value of their work is self-evident
• tend to view their work as an endless stream of materials to be processed
• focus on the resource, not its use
• tend to ignore hard-to-catalog resources (the long tail)
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New Directions
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New Roles for the Library of Congress
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WoGroFuBiCo
Eliminate redundancies Re-design work flows to make data more
accessible Recycle data from other sources
Focus on the “long tail” (unique and rare collections)
Think and plan for global access
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OCLC record
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OPAC record
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All that’s needed is one good record
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The analog past
Curses!Curses!Oh dear…another goof!
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ONIX for Books
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Internet Movie Database
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WorldCat Identities
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The Long Tail
• Unique and rare items• Archival materials• Hidden collections• Digital projects
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VIAF Project
• Virtual International Authority File • Cooperation between OCLC, Library of Congress, die deutsche
Bibliothek • Links authority records from different national libraries• Name registries and subject headings
• Multilingual, multi-script, with variations in spelling and
romanization
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The next generation catalog is affecting cataloging
• results not alphabetically displayed
• not premised on the retrieval of print material
• no decisions about format or location before search
• no a trip to another ‘silo’ to retrieve digital content
• does not ignore the social side of research
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One-box metasearch (Are we there yet?)
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Easy integration of digital resources
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Recommendations & more …
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Integrated instructional content
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Faceted browse & relevance ranking
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WorldCat LocalThe shot heard ‘round the world…
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Inexpensive ‘next gen’ catalog?
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Does not display local record!
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Jane Eyre the Novel
• Author• Title• Genre• Period• Subject
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EditorsPublishersPrinters
The Book
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Book in translation
• Parallel titles• Translators
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The Film Adaptation
Writer DirectorProducerActorsCrewDistributors
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The Remakes
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The Music
ComposerLyricistLibrettistPerformersRecording studios
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The flat record model
• One record contains all entities• Navigation awkward• Relationships unclear• Redundant
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FRBR Relational Model
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“Bibliographic control is increasingly a matter of managing relationships—among works, names, concepts, and object descriptions—across communities.”
Report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, January 2008
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• Successor to Anglo-American Cataloging Rules• Based on FRBR data model• Content standards for all formats • Guidelines for best practice• Online resource• International in scope• Coming soon
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Advocating for more of this will fail…
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A better vision
• A web page for every book, film, recording
• Collaborative bibliographic data • Linked author & publisher information• Relationships -- editions, formats and languages• Linked critical works & scholarship
• “A community of experts” adding value
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Cataloging staff
• training for a new skill set
• working in a more collaborative environment
• more accountability
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Cataloging isn’t dead -- it’s changing.