Showing papers on "Cataloging published in 2014"

The cataloging of virtual communities of educational thematic

Abstract: This article considers the current problem of investigation the specific of specialized catalog of educational virtual communities. Peculiarities of catalogs of virtual communities are formed. This study provides a method of organization of catalog of virtual communities of educational direction. This method is based on a formal model of virtual communities as an environment of information activity of the higher educational institutions. The result of the research is the method of socio-demographic characteristics identification of virtual communities' members. The formal models of internet-resources as an object of information activities mostly carried out in researches of internet-catalogs construction are formed. Thus, the primary task of this work is to develop the method of cataloging of virtual communities of educational direction and development of architecture and methods of organization of such catalog.

Graduate Education for Information Organization, Cataloging, and Metadata

Abstract: Discussions of cataloging and metadata education are popular in social media outlets, scholarly literature, conference meetings, and so on. This article, the third installment of a longitudinal study on the state of information organization (IO) education, analyzes the recent literature to identify new and continuing themes related to IO education. It provides an overview of the curricula of the 58 library and information science graduate programs in the United States and Canada accredited by the American Library Association (ALA). It examines the current conditions in 2012–2013 and compares them to data from earlier studies. It provides an overview of the types of IO courses available, program requirements, the number of schools offering IO courses, and the number of schools teaching those courses.

Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age

Abstract: Introduction 1. The Libraries of Babel 2. The Dream of the Labyrinth 3. Belle Epoque 4. The Microphotic Book 5. The Index Museum 6. Castles in the Air 7. Hope, Lost and Found 8. Mundaneum 9. The Collective Brain 10. The Radiated Library 11. The Intergalactic Network 12. Entering the Steam Conclusion

ARL Cataloger Librarian Roles and Responsibilities Now and In the Future

Abstract: This article details the results of a 2011 study of cataloger librarians’ changing roles and responsibilities at academic Association of Research Libraries. The study participants, cataloging department heads, report that cataloger librarian roles are expanding to include cataloging more electronic resources and local hidden collections in addition to print materials. They are also creating non-MARC metadata. The increased usage of vendor products and services is also affecting the roles of cataloger librarians at some institutions. The article explores what skills cataloger librarians will need in the future and how libraries are providing training for that future.

Understanding the Why: A Case Study in Managing the RDA Implementation

Abstract: This article describes in detail the management of a Resource Description and Access (RDA) implementation process by an academic library that was an early adopter of RDA. It identifies the necessary decisions to be made and discusses the rationale behind these decisions during the implementation process. This information can benefit other libraries with managing their local RDA implementations. The authors examine the business case behind implementation from various perspectives such as administrative support, training, documentation, establishment of local procedures and costs. It aims to help cataloging/technical services/metadata managers understand the scope of the process and the impact it will have on their libraries.

Transferring Cataloging Legacies into Descriptive Metadata Creation in Digital Projects: Catalogers’ Perspective

Abstract: With the emergence of digital collections in libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions, catalogers are redefining their roles by participating in digital projects that involve creating, maintaining, and developing nontraditional metadata records. This article will provide a discussion of how catalogers are ensuring that the cataloging legacies of quality control, authority control, and creative cataloging become important components in the creation of descriptive metadata for digital projects.

Rare Books and Special Collections

Abstract: 1. Some practical realities 2. Running a rare book department 3. Archives 4. The physical materials of the collection 5. Physical layout and operations 6. Fund-raising 7. Security 8. Legal issues 9. Bibliography 10. Book collecting and handling 11. Outreach 12. Preservation, conservation, restoration, and disaster planning 13. Special collections departments today 14. Other issues Afterword Appendix 1: RBMS Thesauri and Rare Book Cataloging Appendix 2: Levels of Collecting and the RLG Conspectus Appendix 3: Booksellers' Catalogs and the Business of Selling Appendix 4: Paper Sizes Appendix 5: RBMS Standards and Guidelines Appendix 6: Department Forms Appendix 7: Citing Sources and Plagiarism.

Relationships among video games: Existing standards and new definitions

Abstract: This paper identifies and defines common relationships among video games and interactive media in an attempt to improve our understanding of and support conceptual data modeling in this domain. Existing models and standards such as Dublin Core, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, Resource Description and Access, CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, and Cataloging Cultural Objects do offer a variety of relationships between resources; however, many video games are related in more complex ways that cannot be adequately represented by these models and standards, especially in ways that reflect how game players understand games and how cultural heritage institutions might curate them. After thorough review of existing standards, consultation with domain experts, and examination of sample game sets, we identified and defined 11 relationship types and 4 grouping entities prevalent in the video game domain, and offer suggestions on how these might be represented in a conceptual model.

From Record-Bound to Boundless: FRBR, Linked Data, and New Possibilities for Serials Cataloging

Abstract: As resources have become ever more complicated in a digital world, it is evident that cataloging practices and the metadata standards we use to guide these practices are becoming more constraining. Recent developments within the library community can have a significant impact on serials cataloging and may help improve information retrieval for the end user. While the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) holds some promise for improving the representation of serials, linked data principles may further transform the way in which resources and the relationships between them are captured and presented to our users. By taking description out of the current record constraints, serials librarians will better be able to express the relationships between multiple versions of the same publication, and how a particular journal has changed over time. The linked data model also opens up many opportunities for the provision of value-added content to bibliographic descriptions.

Standard cataloging for school and public libraries

Abstract: CONTENTS * Acknowledgments * Chapter 1: Introduction To Library Cataloging Chapter 2: The Cataloging Environment Chapter 3: Preparing Bibliographic Descriptions Chapter 4: Name and Title Access Points Chapter 5: Subject Analysis Chapter 6: Subject Heading Authorities Chapter 7: Library of Congress Subject Headings Chapter 8: Sears List of Subject Headings Chapter 9: Classification and Call Numbers Chapter 10: Dewey Decimal Classification Chapter 11: Library of Congress Classification Chapter 12: Computer Encoding Chapter 13: Managing the Catalog Department * Glossary Answers to Chapter Questions Appendix: Additional Exercises Answers to Additional Exercises Index

RDA: Training and Continuing Education Needs in Academic Libraries.

Abstract: IntroductionRDA: Resource Description & Access is a new cataloging code that has been developed as a replacement to Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition (AACR2). The development of RDA marks the first major catalog code revision in more than 30 years in the English-speaking library community. While RDA is backward-compatible with most AACR2 instructions, its instructions have been reworked to align more directly with the new conceptual model for bibliographic control as developed in Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). As a practical application of the FRBR model, RDA is intended to provide a flexible and extensible framework that is easily adaptable to accommodate all types of content and media within rapidly evolving technology environments, while also producing well-formed data that can be shared easily with other metadata communities in an emerging linked data environment (IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, 1998).Many RDA-related questions have arisen in the cataloging community over recent years. Questions include key areas of difference between RDA and AACR2, comparison between RDA and other metadata standards, impact on encoding standards such as Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC), end-user considerations, and practitioners' views on the new cataloging code (Tosaka & Park, 2013). At this point, however, the most critical question in the field may be how catalogers and paraprofessionals can prepare themselves for RDA implementation. A successful transition from AACR2 depends first and foremost upon how easily and smoothly practicing catalogers and metadata creators can learn and apply the new cataloging code effectively. This transition may be even more challenging in the changing cataloging department environment today. Comparing transitions to AACR2 and RDA, Inter (2011) wondered, for example, how the cataloging community could best train the army of paraprofessional copy catalogers that handles the bulk of daily cataloging production in most technical services departments, and whether RDA implementation might be hindered by this ongoing process of deskilling in the cataloging profession.A number of studies were initially conducted-mostly by national library organizations-to survey practitioners' views on RDA training when the new cataloging code was published for official release in June 2010 (Tosaka & Park, 2013). The primary goal of this study was to replicate these earlier studies and evaluate practitioners' preparation and expectations about professional training on the eve of RDA implementation. Using nationwide online survey data, mostly drawn from cataloging and metadata librarians in U.S. academic libraries, we sought to investigate prevailing levels of preparation among cataloging and metadata practitioners, perceived readiness to implement the new cataloging code, and perceived areas of training topics and types of continuing education resources needed to support the successful transition from AACR2.Overview of Past RDA SurveysThe implementation of AACR2 in the early 1980s sparked controversies in the U.S. library community that were once described as the "war of AACR2" (Martell, 1981). By contrast, the reception of RDA arguably has not reached the same level of criticism and acrimony. The official release of RDA was followed by several surveys designed to gather information about catalogers' views on the technical, operational, and financial implications of its implementation. These results threw much needed light on how practitioners in the field felt about RDA costs and benefits and how those issues could be better addressed in preparing a smooth transition to the new cataloging code (Tosaka & Park, 2013).U.S. National Libraries RDA TestIn early 2009, the three U.S. national libraries announced a joint plan to test RDA and conduct a systematic review of its operational, technical, and economic implications. …

Implementing RDA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Abstract: In this article the authors present a case study implemented at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library that trained catalogers in Resource Description and Access (RDA), a new cataloging code. The authors provide detailed descriptions of the library's in-house training sessions and the strategies behind these sessions. They also discusses the creation of digital tools used to facilitate the creation of quality RDA bibliographic records. The authors close by contextualizing RDA training within the library linked data initiative.

Cataloging for a billion word library of Greek and Latin

Abstract: This paper reports work on a catalog that includes not only standard metadata but also a complete reference transcription for each work so that users can explicitly cite not only every version but also every word in every version of a work. The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records conceptual model (FRBR) allows us to move beyond printed books and to track the logical units within (and often across) printed books: works (e.g., the Iliad) and expressions (e.g., versions such as the 10th century Venetus A manuscript or Butler's English translation). The Canonical Text Services (CTS) Data Model builds upon FRBR, allowing us to cite each word in any version of a text and to do so by building upon established citation schemes inherited from print (e.g., the chapter/verse citation scheme in the Bible). This paper describes a concrete implementation of such a catalogue of 3,679 Greek and Latin works that includes FRBR inspired metadata and TEI XML transcriptions that were revised to facilitate implementing a CTS API. It also describes how all the different versions of a work can be serialized as variations on the reference version. The FRBR+CTS catalog provides data by which text re-use and alignment services can automatically detect different versions of and quotations from the reference text, aligning all discovered instances according to a canonical citation scheme.

An Ethos of Access: How a Small Academic Library Transformed Its Collection-Building Processes

Abstract: This article details the way that a small academic library transformed its collection-building processes and took a fresh look at the objectives of cataloging along the way. The St. Edward's University Library accomplished this by embracing a convergence of new technologies and tools: demand-driven acquisitions, a powerful discovery layer, the robust e-book marketplace for academic libraries, and Amazon's vast stock and two-day shipping.

China's Road to RDA

Abstract: With its brand-new structure and stated advantages, Resource Description and Access (RDA) is intended to be the new international standard of cataloging in the digital world. The Chinese library community has been devoted to analyzing RDA and discussing its implementation. This article introduces the current status of RDA studies in China including achievements of RDA research in recent years and China's attitudes toward RDA's implementation. This article also analyzes challenges for RDA's launch in China and provides suggestions for its localization in China.

Using Authorities to Improve Subject Searches

Abstract: Authority files have played an important role in improving the quality of indexing and subject cataloging. Although authorities can significantly improve searching by increasing the number of access points, they are rarely an integral part of the information retrieval process, particularly end-users’ searches. A retrieval prototype, searchFAST, was developed to test the feasibility of using an authority file as an index to bibliographic records. searchFAST uses Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) as an index to OCLC's WorldCat.org bibliographic database. The searchFAST prototype complements, rather than replaces, existing WorldCat.org access. The bibliographic file is searched indirectly; first the authority file is searched to identify appropriate subject headings, then the headings are used to retrieve the matching bibliographic records. The prototype demonstrates the effectiveness and practicality of using an authority file as an index. Searching the authority file leverages authority con...

In the Company of My Peers: Implementation of RDA in Canada

Abstract: This article describes the progress made toward implementing Resource Description and Access (RDA) in libraries across Canada, as of Fall 2013. Differences in the training experiences in the English-speaking cataloging communities and French-speaking cataloging communities are discussed. Preliminary results of a survey of implementation in English-Canadian libraries are included as well as a summary of the support provided for French-Canadian libraries. Data analysis includes an examination of the rate of adoption in Canada by region and by sector. Challenges in RDA training delivery in a Canadian context are identified, as well as opportunities for improvement and expansion of RDA training in the future.

Power and Change in the US Cataloging Community

Abstract: The US cataloging community is an interorganizational network with the Library of Congress (LC) as the lead organization, which reserves to itself the power to shape cataloging rules. Peripheral members of the network who are interested in modifying changes to the rules or to the network can use various strategies for organizational change that incorporate building ties to the decision-makers located at the hub of the network. The story of William E. Studwell’s campaign for a subject heading code illustrates how some traditional scholarly methods of urging change—papers and presentations—are insufficient to achieve reform in an interorganizational network, absent strategies to build alliances with the decision makers.

Evaluating Library Discovery Tools through a Music Lens

Abstract: This paper outlines how to use specialized cataloging to evaluate discovery tools for library collections. An awareness of the capability offered by bibliographic records and data for specialized materials enables libraries to conduct their own evaluation of a discovery tool’s functionality for complex materials. Bibliographic records for materials such as music are excellent for putting a discovery tool through rigorous testing. This paper may be used to facilitate evaluation of discovery tools by those without music cataloging expertise, and it provides a ready supply of examples to quickly identify complex search strategies.

New platform for cataloging hundreds of proteins gets test drive.

Abstract: 1082 VOLUME 20 | NUMBER 10 | OCTOBER 2014 NATURE MEDICINE BOULDER, COLORADO — Amy Wagers, a stem cell scientist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, needed help finding a needle in a haystack. Through clever experiments, in which an old mouse and a young mouse share a circulatory system, she and her colleagues showed that something in young blood reversed age-related thickening of heart muscle in the old mice. But figuring out exactly what that ‘something’ proved tricky: metabolite, lipid, microarray and proteomic analyses failed to identify the responsible factors. Wagers explains that surveying blood for candidates is particularly tough. “There are highly abundant components in blood, and sometimes the actors can be in very low abundance and have a very short halflife,” she says. The solution, ultimately, was a platform called SOMAscan, which takes an unconventional approach to finding and cataloging proteins in blood, and helped Wagers and her collaborators pinpoint the protein GDF11 as important player in the aging process1. The story highlights how the developers of newer proteomics platforms are seeking to make it easier to spot a wider range of biomarkers and perhaps even commercialize related tests in the not-toodistant future. The SOMAscan, which in late August the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston said it would begin to use on site, is based on a type of technology known as aptamers. These short, single-stranded nucleic acids fold back in on themselves, taking on a three-dimensional shape that binds specific proteins similarly to antibodies. A 2010 discovery found that adding nucleic acid side-chain modifications made aptamers stick better to proteins2, and the SOMAscan, from the company SomaLogic, based here, was born. MGH is the second large medical research center that’s investing to bring the aptamerbased SOMAscan system in house; the University of Pennsylvania did so over the summer. SomaLogic is striving to build an aptamer for every protein in the human body while holding tight reins on the technology’s intellectual property.

RDA and the Description of Zines: Metadata Needs for Alternative Publications

Abstract: Comparison of zine user needs, known problems in zine description, and established best practices to Resource Description and Access (RDA) reveals RDA's applicability for describing alternative publications in library and nonlibrary contexts. Findings are that RDA is appropriate for describing alternative publications, though expansion and improvement is warranted in documenting makers, addressing intellectual property, approaching privacy concerns, facilitating subject and genre analysis, undertaking object cataloging, applying companion standards and external vocabularies, and using RDA where boundaries between work, expression, and manifestation are blurred. Experiments in the MARC and ZineCore formats suggest that a Linked Data model would aid RDA implementation.

Find, identify, select…socialize?: Alternative objectives of library catalogs

Abstract: Throughout history, library catalogs have served various purposes, yet most formal statements of catalog objectives focus on inventory and holdings. As contemporary libraries face questions about the continued relevance of the library catalog, these purposes inspire reexamination. This poster presents a historical review of library catalogs with emphasis on purposes, as well as a review of proposals for alternatives to these extant objectives in order to inform future catalog design and library advocacy.

RDA Training and Implementation at Duke University Libraries: Minimizing the Distraction

Abstract: This report is a case study of training in and implementation of Resource Description and Access (RDA) at Duke University Libraries. The first part of the report summarizes national debate about the cost effectiveness of the new rules and gives the reasons for Duke's decision to conduct training for both bibliographic and authority records in early 2013. This is followed by a description of the training, which introduced the new rules with minimal effect on cataloging productivity. Finally, the author gives recommendations for RDA training and implementation. These recommendations focus on meeting current needs rather than on trying to anticipate the replacement of MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC) format.

TIB's Portal for Audiovisual Media: Combining Manual and Automatic Indexing

Abstract: The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) developed a Web-based platform for audiovisual media. The audiovisual portal optimizes access to scientific videos such as computer animations and lecture and conference recordings. TIB's AV-Portal combines traditional cataloging and automatic indexing of audiovisual media. The article describes metadata standards for audiovisual media and introduces the TIB's metadata schema in comparison to other metadata standards for non-textual materials. Additionally, we give an overview of multimedia retrieval technologies used for the Portal and present the AV-Portal in detail as well as the additional value for libraries and their users.

Opening Artists’ Books to the User: An Example with Potential Approaches

Abstract: Artists’ books are an increasingly popular collecting area both for art libraries and for special collections. Their experimentation with the book form and emphasis on hand techniques for production dovetail nicely with early printed book collections, highlighting modern approaches to bookmaking techniques that have been used for hundreds of years. The 2010 OCLC Research Survey Taking Our Pulse identified artists’ books as “the specific area most frequently named” for new collecting in special collections. 2 In this paper we will discuss a specimen artist’s book and various issues and approaches to cataloging it. Artists’ books pose particular challenges to special collections . . .

Resource description and access: cataloging standards affect reference service

Abstract: Purpose – The aim of this paper is to highlight the relationship between cataloging data and reference service and the importance of including reference librarians, in general resource description and access (RDA) training. Design/methodology/approach – A literature review and the author’s experiences related to implementing RDA are presented with minimal cataloging jargon to help librarians better understand the effects of cataloging standards on reference service. Findings – There is a noticeable lack of research and training related to RDA for audiences beyond technical services. More research is needed to determine how users are interacting with the catalog, how bibliographic data is supporting their discovery and access, what, if any, obstacles reference librarians encounter as a result of RDA and how future iterations of RDA may open bibliographic data to communities beyond the library. Originality/value – This paper is one the few that discuss how RDA may affect reference service. It will be useful for providing librarians with a general understanding of the relationship between cataloging and reference and may serve as a starting point for further research.

Who's Ready to Surf the Next Wave? A Study of Perceived Challenges to Implementing New and Revised Standards for Archival Description

Abstract: Archivists in the United States must grapple with many changes to archival descriptive standards in the next few years, including major revisions to Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) and Encoded Archival Description (EAD), widespread adoption of the Encoded Archival Context for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) standard, and harmonization of those standards with Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Resource Description and Access (RDA). This study aims to measure the degree to which archivists are prepared to cope with this evolution in descriptive practices. Archivists were asked to complete a survey aimed at identifying and analyzing their familiarity with these standards and assessing perceptions of their readiness to adapt workflows and systems to changes in those standards. In particular, the survey targeted perceptions of possible technical challenges and pressures on current resources that may impede adoption of new and revised descriptive standa...

Publishing student scholarship: exploring the ETD initiative at a medium-sized institution

Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the Electronic Theses and Dissertations program implemented and managed by the Indiana State University since 2009. The paper illustrates issues relating to the background, policies, platform, workflow and cataloging, as well as the publication and preservation of graduate scholarship. Design/methodology/approach – The authors examined many aspects of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations program and addressed issues dealt before, during and after the publication of the electronic theses and dissertations collection. The approaches the authors utilized are literature review and personal management experience from working on the program. Findings – Implementing an Electronic Theses and Dissertations program involves providing a series of management services. These services include developing relevant policies, implementing an archiving and publication platform and creating submission and publishing workflows, as well as cataloging, disseminating and pres...

The FRBR Family of Conceptual Models: Toward a Linked Bibliographic Future

Abstract: Foreword 1. Introduction: Be Careful What You Wish For: FRBR, Some Lacunae, A Review 2. The VTLS Implementation of FRBR 3. FRBR: The MAB2 Perspective 4. Implementing FRBR to Improve Retrieval of In-House Information in a Medium-Sized International Institute 5. A Strange Model Named FRBRoo 6. Item, document, carrier: An Object Oriented Approach 7. Modeling Aggregates in FRBR 8. Arrangement of FRBR Entities in Colon Classification Call Numbers 9. FRSAD and the ontology of subjects of works 10. FRBR Entities: Identity and Identification 11. FRBR/FRAD and Eva Verona's Cataloging Code: Toward the Future Development of the Croatian Cataloging Code 12. Evaluation of RDA as an implementation of FRBR and FRAD 13. Conceptualizations of the cataloging object: A critique on current perceptions on FRBR Group 1 entities 14. From the FRBR Model to the Italian Cataloging Code (and Vice Versa?) 15. The Contribution of FRBR to the Identification of Bibliographical Relationships: The New RDA-based Ways of Representing the Relationships in Catalogs 16. Analysis of Work-to-Work bibliographic relationships through FRBR: A Canadian Perspective 17. Composing in Real Time: Jazz Performances as "Works" in the FRBR Model 18. Identifying Works for Japanese Classics for Construction of FRBRized OPACs 19. FRBRizing Bibliographic Records Focusing on Identifiers and Role Indicators in the Korean Cataloging Environment 20. What do Users Tell us About FRBR-Based Catalogs? 21. Representing the FR Family in the Semantic Web 22. YouTube: Applying FRBR and Exploring the Multiple Description Coding Compression Model 23. FRBR and Linked Data: Connecting FRBR and Linked Data