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Monday, February 11, 2008

Interoperable metadata - How do we get there?

Interoperability is a buzzword in the library community. In the past we had pretty much one system of standards with regard to metadata creation. Now we're grappling with diverse forms of metadata. Here's a document, Harmonization of Metadata Standards [pdf], that nicely lays out the issues involved.

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Future of Cataloging: Key Resources (to May 2008)

Rethinking How We Provide Bibliographic Services for the University of California: Final Report: December 2005
White Paper on the Future of Cataloging at Indiana University, January 15, 2006
Deanna B. Marcum, The Future of Cataloging, January 16, 2005
Karen Calhoun, The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools: Final Report, March 17, 2006
Library of Congress Professional Guild, Future of Cataloging (various articles including Thomas Mann's critique of the Calhoun Report)
Library of Congress, Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
RDA: Resource Description and Access website
Conference on Bibliographic Control in the New Millennium (Library of Congress), 2000
Catalogers Learning Workshop (CLW)
Standards (The Library of Congress)
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
ONIX (Online Information Exchange)
Resource Description Framework (RDF) / W3C Semantic Web Activity
Karen Calhoun, Being a Librarian: Metadata and Metadata Specialists in the Twenty-first Century, December 2004
PennTags /tag/cataloging
ALCTS and the Future of Bibliographic Control: Challenges, Actions, and Values, January 4, 2007
futurelib wiki
IFLA, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
Blogs About Catalogs and Cataloging
Minerva Shelved, Cataloger Call [blog post], April 5, 2007
Planet Cataloging
MARC Content Designation Utilization » MCDU Home
IFLA, Functional Requirements for Authority Data: A Conceptual Model (FRAD)
Karen Calhoun, "Economics and Organization of Bibliographic Data": Response to Background Paper, July 9, 2007
Diane I. Hillmann, Adding New Skills to our Skillset, July 2007
Martha M. Yee, Will The Response Of The Library Profession To The Internet Be Self-Immolation? July 2007
IFLA, Statement of International Cataloguing Principles
David Bade, Structures, standards, and the people who make them meaningful, May 9, 2007
Diane I. Hillmann, Structures and Standards for Our Bibliographic Future, May 9, 2007 [ppt]
Alan Danskin, "Tomorrow never knows": the end of cataloguing?, June 6, 2006
Metadata Services, Cornell University Library
Chris Oliver, Changing to RDA, 2007
Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Cataloging and Metadata Education: A Proposal for Preparing Cataloging Professionals of the 21st Century, April 2003
On the Record: Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, January 9, 2008
Robert Wolven, In Search of a New Model, January 15, 2008
CPSO, Library of Congress Subject Headings: Pre- vs.Post-Coordination and Related Issues, June 13, 2007
Thomas Mann, "On the Record" but Off the Track, March 14, 2008
Karen Coyle and Diane Hillmann, Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century, January 2007
Martha M. Yee's home page
ALA - ALCTS website
Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA)
DCMI/RDA Task Group Wiki
Norm Medeiros, The catalog's last stand, 2007
Richard Gartner, Metadata for digital libraries: state of the art and future directions, April 2008
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Karen Markey, The Online Library Catalog: Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained?, January 2007

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