> > Unless something has changed recently, it seems to be the trend in
> several of the more recent projects. For example, VuFind, Koha,
> Evergreen, at least by default or in their demo configurations, use
the
> 1xx heading rather than 245$c statement of responsibility, like
> Worldcat.org as desc
Bryan:
You bring up some good points here, but my amazement wasn't prompted by
the dumbing-down part, but the subsequent re-creation of statements of
responsibility by algorithmic means. This suggests to me less a
direction than a deep ambivalence about the functionality desired for
WorldCat.
D
Mary Mastraccio wrote:
The subfield $0 only addresses this in a small way. It allows linking bib
headings to authority records and allows linking thesauri and could be used
to link name and title authority records, but it does not address other
features of the linking of name and title authority
On Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:13 PM, Diane I. Hillmann wrote:
>This seems so counterintuitive--libraries have been complaining for years that
>their vendors have made so little use of the richness of MARC records, and
>here's OCLC building systems that use even less.
Unless something has ch
Diane:
I actually think that OCLC has done a very good job integrating and making copy-specific information accessible on the Web. We were worried about making the transition from RLIN, with its individual records for each institution's copy of an item, to WorldCat, with its master record s
> > OS:As an example, I cannot see how MARC could support a linked data
> > approach to information stored in fixed fields - one of the places
> where
> > it would benefit from it.
>
> MM: Systems already use MARC fixed fields information to display icons
> related to format and to refine searches
> Mary Mastraccio wrote:
> >
> > It might be determined that the "Works" field in the parent
> record
> > should only have the control number of the child name record... I
strongly suspect that
> the
> > various language translations of a title could/should really be in the
> one
> > NameTitle/Chil
Owen Stephen:
> I think that in this case I am talking about a weakness in MARC21 rather
> than AACR2. Possibly it is the implementation - but isn't MARC21 an
> implementation of MARC?
MM: At one level MARC21 is an implementation of MARC but what I am thinking
of is the library systems implementat
> > A weakness of MARC21 is that it doesn't make use of the reference to
> > the Authority record into the metadata record - we rely on
'literals' too
> > much - making it more difficult to ensure consistency, make changes,
> > or draw into our indexing information not held directly in the MARC
> >
Mary Mastraccio wrote:
I think the child/title authority record is needed rather than just using
the "works" information to allow for name/title headings in bib record
displays. It might be determined that the "Works" field in the parent record
should only have the control number of the child na
Mary Mastraccio wrote:
>
> > ..[modifications in] the construction of authority data
> > for automated management are long overdue. Too much of the data and
> rules > > are designed for human intervention. ... A name authority record
should have as much data as > possible
> > on a person. Ideally,
AZ
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Owen Steph
Owen Stephens wrote:
> The question of 'feasibility' takes us beyond a question of whether it
> is 'worth it' to whether it can be done. What the report says is that
> the authors do not believe it is possible to achieve consistency with
> metadata of judgement except within "a tightly controlled
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>
> The question Karen uses for an e
Jim wrote:
They use different terminology ("consistency of judgemental metadata")
but I still read it as:
"Given the expense and nature of this type of content, we believe it is
not feasible to expect consistency with regard to metadata of judgement,
except perhaps where it occurs in a tightly cont
> Three years or so ago I thought, "finally the significance of what
> authority data can do for improving data management is understood" but
more
> recently it seems to have been lost in the dust. I would add to
Bernhard and
> Jim's comments that the rules governing the construction of authority
d
Adam:
Thanks for pointing this out--I've had little experience using WorldCat,
and wasn't really aware of these particular problems. This seems so
counterintuitive--libraries have been complaining for years that their
vendors have made so little use of the richness of MARC records, and
here's OC
J. McRee Elrod wrote:
Karen said:
As for managing multiple vocabularies, there shouldn't be a big
difference between managing one or two or a dozen vocabularies ...
By "vocabularies" do you mean "thesauri"? If so, why not use that
more precise term? If there is a difference, what is that
>In displays such as above, the designers of WorldCat decided (god
>knows why!) to remove any and all additions to names such as fuller
>well-known author Henry Miller is the same as the medical writer or
>composer of The saucy little widow are left to figure that out some
>other way. Those stat
Adam L. Schiff wrote:
Yet still, if you insist to be interested in none else than "Miller,
Henry - 1891-1980", then as of yet there are only library catalogs or
WorldCat to turn to. This ought to change, no?
Actually, you need to strike mention of WorldCat above, as it makes no use
of authori
J. McRee (Mac) Elrod wrote:
> MARC handles multiple subject thesauri for our multiple clients quite
> handily, with 2nd indicators and $2, allowing us to provide LCSH, RVM,
> MeSH, etc. as wished. The same applies to 050 LCC, 055 FCPS or Moys,
> 060 NLMC, 080 UDC, and 082 DDC.
While I basically
Yet still, if you insist to be interested in none else than "Miller,
Henry - 1891-1980", then as of yet there are only library catalogs or
WorldCat to turn to. This ought to change, no?
B.Eversberg
Actually, you need to strike mention of WorldCat above, as it makes no use
of authorized forms o
Mike Tribby wrote:
that search would find not only every book by the author of Tropic of
Cancer, but every book by every author named Henry Miller...
Well, even today, if you enter Henry Miller into Google Scholar, you
get 655.000 hits including all documents by not just any Henry Miller
but
Karen said:
>As for managing multiple vocabularies, there shouldn't be a big
>difference between managing one or two or a dozen vocabularies ...
By "vocabularies" do you mean "thesauri"? If so, why not use that
more precise term? If there is a difference, what is that difference?
I'm still spe
D. Brooking wrote:
OCLC does not yet have a way to make institutional bib records (i.e.,
the locally customized versions of master records) available for
search and discovery. Though they are pursuing ways of making some
kinds of local data available in local holdings records, this solution
will
I was struck by one point Diane made about the future:
"But consistency in terms of what terms we choose to assign is not likely
to be as important in future as it has been in our current sharing
environment (which assumes that there is a "master record" that all will
use in the same way in a
I think the report and this discussion about consistency is really
important for us all to think about. One of the ideas we'll need to
get used to as we contemplate changes to come is that data will come
from a variety of sources, and not all of those sources will be have the
same view of what's
Mike, I don't understand why you think this bypasses authority control.
You can have authority control outside of WorldCat. As a matter of fact,
if your headings are authority-controlled today, they are authority
controlled no matter where your record is (and many library records are
not in WorldC
The question Karen uses for an example ("how many books did Henry Miller write
while he lived in France?") is an interesting choice. Assuming that linking
"from the mention of an author anywhere on the web to books held by libraries.
Directly. Not going through WorldCat" would bypass authority
Karen,
Thank you for the references. I do not expect or particularly want a
one-to-one replacement for AACR2 and MARC. What I think we must have is
something that incorporates or "rolls over" the data we have that use
those standards without losing what they have contributed to
bibliographic con
Karen Coyle schrieb:
I'm absolutely with you where you say "We have to quit thinking that
catalog = library", of course. But it is the catalog that this forum
is about.
No, this forum is about Resource Description and Access.
> ...
Which in turn is widely held to be the new code to replace AA
Thanks, Bernhard.
Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
Which in turn is widely held to be the new code to replace AACR2.
Yes, but I do think they changed it from AACR3 to RDA to show that it's
not JUST a new version of the previous rules.
Another thing we need to clarify, however, is how the rules on ho
Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
> Just one more thing: To achieve what you envision, it will I think have
> to be a top priority that authority data (names and subject headings)
> become openly and freely available for easy inclusion and swift use in
> metadata.
Jim Weinheimer wrote:
>"I think another c
Karen Coyle wrote:
> I interpret this statement differently than you do. Nowhere does the
> report say that consistency is not "worthwhile" -- this is a study of
> consistency, not the value of subject headings. Their conclusion, as you
> quote above, is that consistency is unlikely across a broad
Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
I'm absolutely with you where you say "We have to quit thinking that
catalog = library", of course. But it is the catalog that this forum
is about.
No, this forum is about Resource Description and Access. And my argument
is that we should see resource description and a
Weinheimer Jim wrote:
This report concludes that consistency is not worthwhile, and I think
this paragraph (p. 17) sums it up quite well.
"At the other end of the spectrum is metadata of judgement. In
traditional cataloguing practice this is often called analytic
cataloguing; it involves the desc
Karen Coyle wrote:
We might first have to say why library catalogs are still a better
solution to many problems of searching, before we begin advocating their
improvement via RDA and FRBR.
Bernard, I feel like you're advocating an answer to a question that
hasn't been clarified.
In the second
First, many thanks to Karen for pointing out this highly important document. It
seems as if everything libraries do is under attack now. Consistency has always
been at the very heart of the library catalog, and even it is being questioned.
This report concludes that consistency is not worthwhile
J. McRee Elrod wrote:
Karen quoted:
"This study has been briefed to investigate ...
A difficulty I have in reading the new writing on metadata is
formulations like the above, which makes it difficult to focus on the
substance of what is being said.
I think that's more of an issue of Britis
Karen quoted:
>"This study has been briefed to investigate ...
A difficulty I have in reading the new writing on metadata is
formulations like the above, which makes it difficult to focus on the
substance of what is being said. I assume what is meant is that:
"Those conducting this study have be
Diane I. Hillmann wrote:
It's not a miracle, it's hard work, but
this view does not assume that humans are the only (and not even always
the best) metadata creators. I think the report that Karen distributed
as part of a different thread is relevant here:
http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/256/. Gra
Laurence Creider wrote:
I have read the FA (and some of the report referred to) and could not
find
evidence of what you say. Could you please be more specific about what
you mean?
It isn't what *I* mean, it's what the article means. First, I think it
is a great idea to study the effect of consi
Laurence S. Creider wrote:
First, there is the question of specifics. I hear words like "imagine" or
references to current experiments. Those of us who have lived with
computers for a while know how big the gap between vision and reality can
be. The devil is indeed in the details. So, I would
Laurence:
A small point, but the "Get off Autocat" was from a presentation I did
recently, and the context was discussion about how to learn and
participate in discussions about the future. The complaint I often hear
is that there's already too much coming into their inbox, and my point
was that
As I have followed the posts on this thread over the last few days and,
indeed, as I have read posts over the past several months, I find there is
a relatively small group of individuals who have moved the discussion away
from RDA to the future of libraries and cataloging. Some of this is
thought-
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Shawne:
You're right, when I hear "cataloging" I think "traditional
cataloging"--one reason why I always use the later term when I mean
traditional cataloging, and something else, say, "metadata creation
John Myers has done an excellent job of summarizing why we need to pay
attention to developments beyond MARC and XML and why we need to worry
about getting our records out for others to use. In the long run, this is
a matter of survival. Karen Coyle refreshingly admits how far there is to
go befo
On 11/11/08 4:04 AM, "Weinheimer Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(snip)
> For example, the fact that Google stopped development of OAI-PMH (using only
> DC!) in favor of XML Topic Maps is a huge development. Imagine that you are a
> publisher, or any other producer of non-MARC records (i.e. anybo
John, you've absolutely gotten it, and I like your metaphors, too.
:-)
Diane
Myers, John F. wrote:
The issue is that we hide our catalog records in our catalogs. While the public face of
those catalogs is a WebOPAC, this is only an html based interface to the catalog data, an
interface that
Shawne:
You're right, when I hear "cataloging" I think "traditional
cataloging"--one reason why I always use the later term when I mean
traditional cataloging, and something else, say, "metadata creation"
when I mean something else. I'm glad you're not just teaching
traditional cataloging, but m
Stephen Hearn wrote:
I just did a Google Books search on "Gone with the wind." I clicked on
the first hit, and was given a brief bibliographic display and a link at
the right to "Find this book in a library." I clicked that and was taken
to WorldCat, which provided a list of copies in libraries c
I have read the FA (and some of the report referred to) and could not find
evidence of what you say. Could you please be more specific about what
you mean?
Laurence S. Creider
Special Collections Librarian
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
Work: 575-646-7227
Fax: 575-646-7477
[EM
Robin Mize wrote:
I agree that we need to provide a seamless interface for the user,
because the user doesn't want a lot of roadblocks on their path to
information.
Myers, John F. wrote:
The issue is that we hide our catalog records in our catalogs. While
the public face of those catalogs is a
Stephen Hearn wrote:
To me the hard part is ensuring consistency, first of terminology, but
more fundamentally of granularity and categorization. The great virtue
of MARC/AACR/LSCH cataloging is that it is as consistent as it is across
many catalogs and institutions and disciplines.
There is act
Stephen Hearn wrote:
As for catalogs--when I use my libraries' catalogs (and I do--the Twin
Cities library systems all recognize me as a user), it's not mainly
bibliographic information that I'm looking for. I want to know what each
collection includes, and whether a copy is available, and how l
Shawne Miksa wrote:
> You write: "Bibliographic data available freely on the web can be combined
> and presented in different ways, available to those who might want to try new
> aggregations and methods of discovery and presentation."
>
> In your view, where does that bibliographic data originate?
It seems to me that there's another elephant in the room where we're
talking about making catalog records available to the public, and that's
the fact that most libraries depend on services from which they buy
their metadata, most notably at this point one such as OCLC although
there are a lot of
Myers, John F. wrote:
(With apologies if I've wandered somewhat from the initial premise or if I've
misrepresented Diane.)
From my point of view, you are "spot on" as the Brits say.
I think a lot of what flusters people is that there isn't a way today to
lay out a perfectly formed plan with
The issue is that we hide our catalog records in our catalogs. While the
public face of those catalogs is a WebOPAC, this is only an html based
interface to the catalog data, an interface that is inherently self contained.
The actual records are not searchable via a search originating on the o
Stephen Hearn said:
>To me the hard part is ensuring consistency ...
>The natural tendency of thinking communities is to divide
>and redivide and to use language, categories ...
Amen. I've just taken over as Archivist for an institution in which
this happened. The institutiona's administrative
To me the hard part is ensuring consistency, first of terminology, but
more fundamentally of granularity and categorization. The great virtue
of MARC/AACR/LSCH cataloging is that it is as consistent as it is across
many catalogs and institutions and disciplines. That's not a natural
development. T
I like fussing.
This idea of "hoarding" and "hiding" is difficult to understand as it makes it
sound as if librarians, and especially those who catalog, are cave dwellers who
can't speak. I would also ask you to not generalize all cataloging courses as
traditional. We've been incorporating "non
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Thank you, Karen, for expressing this so succinctly (which I obviously
haven't been able to do). And let me just point out that we have to be
able to get that data out on the web without an intermediary that wants
to control all our interactions with the outside world (if you don't
know who I'm t
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Miksa, Shawne wrote:
Karen wrote: "We have to quit thinking that catalog = library, and start looking at
a wider range of services that we can (and do) provide."
Whoa! Stop!
This would imply that 'we' have all been thinking this--as if we all have tunnel vision.
I don't think that is true at
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> -Original Message-
> From: Resource Descripti
Karen Coyle wrote:
> I think we have made a mistake in focusing on the catalog as the main
> user tool. Our model for user service should instead be the reference
> service. The catalog is inherently about the library's holdings, already
> a narrow scope. In reference service, the user comes in wi
> -Original Message-
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> Weinheimer Jim
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D
Karen wrote: "We have to quit thinking that catalog = library, and start
looking at a wider range of services that we can (and do) provide."
Whoa! Stop!
This would imply that 'we' have all been thinking this--as if we all have
tunnel vision. I don't think that is true at all. Obviously the libr
I have been finding your comments on this topic fascinating. Wearing my
library educator's hat... I have been compiling your comments on "Libraries,
society and RDA" into a Word document. I'll be teaching a course on cataloging
in the spring in Dominican University's GSLIS program. I plan to
Weinheimer Jim wrote:
> Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
> >
> > We might first have to say why library catalogs are still a better
> > solution to many problems of searching, before we begin advocating
their
> > improvement via RDA and FRBR.
Another consideration that we should not overlook is that ca
> Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
> >
> > We might first have to say why library catalogs are still a better
> > solution to many problems of searching, before we begin advocating their
> > improvement via RDA and FRBR.
Another consideration that we should not overlook is that catalogs serve not
only t
Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
We might first have to say why library catalogs are still a better
solution to many problems of searching, before we begin advocating their
improvement via RDA and FRBR.
Bernard, I feel like you're advocating an answer to a question that
hasn't been clarified. In your
That everyone talks as if the only group of users are young people or young
students really angers me. I would agree they are the most predominant,
evaluated group of users, but why do we constantly talk as if they are the only
group? Last year I attended a two-day visioning task force concerni
When we did some user interviews lately, we found that not all young
users act like the stereotype "young users" act, and some older users,
even faculty researchers, DO act like the stereotype of "young users".
I think the goals people are claiming under the mantle of "young users"
really are app
Mike Tribby wrote:
> "a report from Educause that says that students think they already
> know how to search",
... _we_ felt like that, too, when there were far fewer information resources
to search. This may just indicate a truism of youth,
Yes, but then there's also the more general observa
, November 07, 2008 7:40 AM
To: RDA-L@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA
Subject: Re: [RDA-L] libraries, society and RDA
Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
> We might first have to say why library catalogs are still a better
> solution to many problems of searching, before we begin advocating their
> improvement
Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
> We might first have to say why library catalogs are still a better
> solution to many problems of searching, before we begin advocating their
> improvement via RDA and FRBR.
>
> Here's an attempt:
>
> http://www.allegro-c.de/formate/wlc.htm
>
> trying to say things in
Jim Weinheimer wrote:
Why can't we say what RDA and FRBR are a solution to, and how their
introduction will make this huge difference to our users?
We might first have to say why library catalogs are still a better
solution to many problems of searching, before we begin advocating their
improv
Karen Coyle wrote:
> Quality does matter. So does efficiency and a consciousness that we
> can't possibly afford to give full attention to every item. Some choices
> have to be made, and, as the LC Future of Bib Control report pointed
> out, we have no measurements of usefulness or success that wo
Jim Weinheimer wrote:
> "In defense of the Chicken Littles of the World"
I really enjoyed reading this post. A few comments...
> I guess I'm worried about something similar happening today. If we
> focus primarily on speed, throughput and bean counting at the expense
> of "quality," I think we
On 4 November 2008, Miksa, Shawne wrote:
Have library, have catalog. Have Web, catalog part of it--a doorway or
alcove or hallway to another room. Libraries still have
'collections'--this has not changed. Call it a digital
library--whatever---that is a guide to it what it contains,
records/repr
Karen said:
>the "half" that we are missing in libraries is often the most unique
>elements of our collection...
Both digitalization of unique resources and AARC2/MARC21 records
describing them are giving increased access to such materials in
library collections. What new impetus will new rules
ht economic climate. In
> the
> > absence of a current RDA draft, this seemed a useful and prudent
> > activity.
> >
> > Ed
> >
> > -Original Message-----
> > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and
Access
> > [mailto:[EMAI
Weinheimer Jim wrote:
This has happened before in every library, I am sure. I remember that
in one library where I worked, I ran across an old cataloging
procedure (for the card catalog) where non-Roman catalogers were
directed for a period of about 10 years (I believe) to not add any
subject c
ty.
> >
> > Ed
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access
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> > To: RDA-L@INFOSE
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Shawne:
Thanks for your note. I'm not sure I was aiming for eloquence, just
hoping to shift the conversation a bit, away fr
ber 02, 2008 9:21 PM
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Shawne:
It wasn't too long ago that I was told that I couldn't catalog web
resources because we didn't "own" them. I have to say that redefining
the catalog yet again isn
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Shawne:
Thanks for your note. I'm not sure I was aiming for eloquence, just
hopin
Casey Mullin wrote:
I am encouraged at where this thread has turned this evening...
Shawne's comments about continuing to create catalogs are apt. What I've
come to realize in the past few years is that it's not the fundamental
intellectual activity of catalogers which is in danger of obsolescenc
J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>What remains constant is that the materials be selected, described and
>given subject descriptors which facilitate their retrieval.
>The tasks of selecting and organizing materials which match the
>mission of the institution have not changed.
Abso
Shawne said:
>One of the questions I often get in class from my cataloging students
>is "What are the parameters of a library catalog?" ...
The catalogues for which we provide records have morphed, since 1979,
from giving patron access to information and recreational resources
within the institut
se of progress.
So that's my sleepy Sunday night rant. Thanks for reading.
Casey Alan MullinMLS CandidateSchool of Library and Information ScienceMetadata
Assistant - Variations3 Digital Music LibraryIndiana University > Date: Sun, 2
Nov 2008 19:27:09 -0600> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Shawne:
It wasn't too long ago that I was told that I couldn't catalog web
resources because we didn't "own" them. I have to say that redefining
the catalog yet again isn't something I'm all that interested in
doing--particularly since that definition isn't likely to ever be as
close to consensu
One of the questions I often get in class from my cataloging students is "What
are the parameters of a library catalog?" in this day and age when we are
expected to provide access not only to a library's particular collection but,
seemingly, everything else "out there." Are we still creating ca
Shawne:
Thanks for your note. I'm not sure I was aiming for eloquence, just
hoping to shift the conversation a bit, away from the tendency to a
Chicken Little-style response ...
Your last question worries me--are we still creating catalogs, or are we
trying (finally) to participate, as the expe
Diane, thank you for such an eloquent posting. I haven't read the whole thread
but I'm glad to see talk of serving users' needs. If would seem premature to
postpone RDA when we don't yet have all the "data" in on what it will look like
and how it may or may not allow us to provide a better servi
Ed Jones wrote:
[snip]
My main concern at present is that in the current economic environment
there will be increasing pressure at all levels to abandon RDA—or at
best to postpone its implementation—if it entails any substantial
investment by those who would otherwise implement it. With state an
Diego)
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