summary of trends in cataloging

Cataloging & Cataloging & Metadata: Metadata:

Trends in Technical Trends in Technical Service Service William Fair Worford

Survey of the Room Survey of the Room • How many catalogers are in the room? • How many of you use metadata schema such

as…..e.g Dublin Core, EAD, MODS, ?

Fulfillment of Service Fulfillment of Service • What comes across our desk

o Ex. Books, CDs, How to Guides, etc…

• More formally: o A technical services librarian (is) primarily responsible for

preparing bibliographic records or metadata to represent the resources in the collections of an information agency, including description, subject analysis, access to information, authority control, metadata application, quality control, and metadata-related decision making.

Cataloger / Metadata Cataloger / Metadata • Additional responsibilities include {data sharing,

consortia collaboration, project management, standard}, policy, and workflow development. Also refers to the librarian responsible for supervising a cataloging or metadata department..

The Great Exodus to The Great Exodus to The New World The New World

• Patrons aren’t using the library as their first research source

• They have made the internet their source for “all” of their information.

TecTechnical Service hnical Service Trends Trends

Vendor processed resourcesWill vendors control the distribution of cataloging metadata for non-unique materials?As budgets decrease demand for various resources and information increases at a cost.

The Systems Upgrade The Systems Upgrade

In and Out = Change?In and Out = Change?

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Description (FRBR)

Resource Description and Access (RDA)

Library Linked Data

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic RecordsFunctional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

ValueValue

CreatorCreatorTitleTitle

A Christmas CarolA Christmas Carol Charles DickensCharles Dickens

ValueValue

AttributesAttributes

Entity = WorkEntity = WorkUser Tasks•Find•Identify•Select•Obtain

Entity-Relationship Model

The Rules: AACR2 Vs. RDAThe Rules: AACR2 Vs. RDASchools of Thought:

Adopted RDA maintain AACR2. Those despite formal RDA training, still fighting the

“good fight.” RDA as a set of rules will be the “final nail in the

coffin” of MARC.

BUT!!! WE Need to Googleize our OPACS

The Rules: AACR2 Vs. RDAThe Rules: AACR2 Vs. RDA MARC was originally developed to print cards, not

for computerized searching or to supply machine readable data. The library of Congress never anticipated the imminent flexibility computers could confer on bibliographic description to anticipate many of the random or chaotic ways human search catalogues. RDA is kind of like a politically more control in the client in gathering subsets of formats

- FRBR VTLS Users Group, access December 2013

The Rules: AACR2 Vs. RDAThe Rules: AACR2 Vs. RDA The Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition

(AACR2) is a content standard published by the American Library Association (ALA), Canadian Library Association (CLA), and Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).

The Rules: AACR2 Vs. RDAThe Rules: AACR2 Vs. RDA RDA is organized by FRBR entities and

relationships Not by ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description) areas (AACR2)

RDA is focused on online resourceNot on print resource (AACR2)

The Rules: AACR2 Vs. The Rules: AACR2 Vs. RDARDA

RDA is a Content Standard Not a display (presentation) standard like

AACR2 (largely a content and display standard) Not an encoding schema (use whatever

schema is appropriate to record data elements: Dublin Core, MODS, MARC, etc.)

MARC with AACR2 MARC with AACR2

Issues with RDAIssues with RDA Shared Cataloged implementation Training catalogers and their staff Devotion to AACR2 RDA still is not quite the answer or semantic

web or web friendly data

Tomorrow’s Technical Tomorrow’s Technical ServicesServices

The New Bibliographic Entrepreneurship The New Bibliographic Entrepreneurship

Linked Data: Is It Any Linked Data: Is It Any Good?Good?

• Not-library specifico Detailed library data becomes part of the webo Libraries can benefit from wider software, community, and expertise; less tied to specific

vendorso Non-librarians can use data

• Not catalogue-specific: e.g. if archives, repositories, and catalogues, and others can publish

linked data and share Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) then it can be mixed and re-used in

interesting ways

• Can be linked with other schemes. E.g. authorities such as VIAF with Wikipedia, ORCID, and ISNI

• Backbone of other big initiatives:o Schema.org used by major search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo)o UK government open data: data.gov.uko Dbpediao BBC websites, e.g. wildlife finder (takes data from Wikipedia) and World Cup sites.

• Based on very basic and flexible Entity Relationship Model (ERM), the same structure as e.g. FRBR• No standard way of presenting bibliographic information as linked data

- Thomas Meehan

- Thomas Meehan

Search Results for RooseveltSearch Results for Roosevelt

Google’s Knowledge Graph

BibFrameBibFrame

BibFrameBibFrame

- Clark Art Institute RDA record displayed as Bibframe

Looking Back…..Looking Back…..RE-Cap We are living in a time where libraries are competing against the World Wide Web as the source for information.

Despite trying to reach a solution for users by attempting to bring the web into the library, no uniform answers have been found that satisfies everyone.

As new schemas, semantic web friendly metadata, as well discovery systems are created, shared/co-op catalogs will be harder to maintain or (in some cases) create.

ReferencesReferences• Batoma, Atoma T. “Some General Features of RDA”. RDA Presentation Materials - 05/16/2012 & 05/23/2012.

University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign, Accessed December 24, 2013. http://www.library.illinois.edu/cms/cam/training/RDAatoma.pptx

• “Cataloging or Metadata Librarianship.” Accessed December 22, 2013. https://www.kent.edu/slis/programs/mlis/cataloging-or-metadata.cfm.

• “Catalog_Desiree5.png Photo by LibraGoddess04 | Photobucket.” Accessed December 27, 2013. http://smg.photobucket.com/user/LibraGoddess04/media/Catalog_Desiree5.png.html.

• “FRBR_VTLS Users Group.pdf.” Accessed December 28, 2013.

http://vug.vtls.com/presentations/2012/FRBR_VTLS%20Users%20Group.pdf.

• “Never Mind E-Books: Why Print Books Are Here to Stay - WSJ.com.” Accessed December 24, 2013. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323874204578219563353697002.

• Thomas Meehan. “Beyond MARC: MARC, Linked Data, and Bibframe.” Education, 17:11:35 UTC. http://www.slideshare.net/orangeaurochs/marcld2013.

• “Transitioning from Cataloging to Creating Metadata | Association for Library Collections & Technical

Services (ALCTS).” Accessed December 26, 2013. http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/022713.

• “Twitter / Sophiewackles: #alamw13 #bibframe Hubba Hubba ...” Accessed January 2, 2014. https://twitter.com/sophiewackles/status/296296921759350784.