Cataloging and metadata: A year in review

Some important topics, reports, and new services for library cataloging and metadata in 2009 were:

• OCLC record use policy
• Google Books metadata problems
• Cooperative Cataloging Rules wiki
• Linked data LCSH
• The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
• RDA publication delayed until 2010
• biblios.net 
• SkyRiver
• OCLC's Expert Community Experiment
• R2 Consulting's report for LC on the MARC marketplace
• Announcement of 2010 the year of cataloging research
• Thomas Mann's report on the distinctiveness of the Library of Congress
• Automatic metadata generation
• Second draft issued: Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) 
• Judy Luther's NISO/OCLC report on streamlining book metadata workflow