working group on the future of bibliographic control second public hearing
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Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control Second Public Hearing. Jennifer Bowen University of Rochester [email protected] Chicago, IL May 9, 2007. My perspectives. International descriptive cataloging standards development (RDA) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Jennifer BowenUniversity of Rochester
[email protected], IL May 9, 2007
Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
Second Public Hearing
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My perspectives
International descriptive cataloging standards development (RDA)
Defining/developing a next generation “catalog”
Cataloging manager at a smaller ARL institution
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My topics Current structures and standards
vis-à-vis RDA development Future of controlled data New requirements for bibliographic
data What’s needed for future standards
development
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Current structures and standards vis-à-vis RDA
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RDA development structure
Committee of
Principals
AACR FundTrustees/Publishers
Joint SteeringCommittee
ALACC:DA
ACOC BL CCC CILIP LC
RDA Project Manager
RDA Editor
JSC Secretary
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What can RDA accomplish? More flexible, up-to-date standard to
replace AACR2 Create a useful tool for catalogers Easier to train new catalogers Facilitate cataloging digital
resources in a library environment Promote international adoption of a
common standard
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What has hampered RDA development?
Too much hype! Need for backwards compatibility Tight funding and timeline Success of standard tied to success
of the commercial product Consultation process needed
improvement
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Consulting other communities
Which communities to consul? What do we gain? Ensuring successful
consultations
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Which communities to consult?
Those with similar missions to our own Archives, museums
Others whose metadata we want to share Publishing, metadata communities
Communities that can assist us
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What do we gain?
Metadata interoperability Envision technology trends and
opportunities Improve standards development
process Help us undertake user research
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Ensuring successful consultations
Must be at the appropriate level Often will need to be on-going, not
one-time events Need organizational structures and
funding to maintain relationships Allow for serendipity (this needs
funding too!)
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Recommendations for RDA
Move forward with first release in 2009
Aggressively pursue development of RDA application profile, related efforts
Restructure JSC work to focus on consultation, not document editing
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Future of controlled data
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Controlled data: what’s needed
Need identifiers! Evaluate potential based on well-
designed systems Provide better tools for catalogers Facilitate faceted browsing
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New requirements for bibliographic data
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Creating richer interfaces
Web services to enrichment data Metadata to support faceted
browsing FRBR-informed navigation
Relator information Controlled access points
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Testing environments Encourage experimentation and
research Opportunities to develop new
system functionalities User research and usability testing Support open-source community Feed “lessons learned” into
standards development
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Sharing metadata Between repositories, similar
discovery environments Share local augmentation, results of
experimentation Distinguish standard from local
metadata, but share both Within other discovery environments
Components to “connect” systems
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What’s needed for future standards development?
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What is our vision? Users have a positive experience
locating library resources Users are led to library resources
from wherever they happen to be online
Library “solutions” are seen as useful in the broader world
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A positive vision for bibliographic control
Catalogers/metadata professionals… Have effective tools, can focus on
intellectual work Participate in designing how systems
use metadata Contribute widely to improving shared
metadata Are confident that systems will use
their work effectively
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What’s needed right now?
Positive, decisive future action Clearly redefine roles and
responsibilities Explain, justify trade-offs Articulate a positive vision for the
future of bibliographic control