metadata

LC Introduces New Cataloging in Publication (CIP) Data Block

October 28, 2015 by Chloe Mae Lerit Leave a Comment

The Library of Congress is pleased to announce that a new version of the CIP Data Block, the cataloging information printed by publishers at the front of the book, will be implemented by the Cataloging in Publication Program starting October 1, 2015.

Over the last year and a half, the Library of Congress with the assistance of experts from the school, public and academic library communities has been investigating revisions to the CIP Data Block. The new CIP Data Block is the result of an analysis of survey results done in 2014 that asked institutions what should be kept, added, or removed from the CIP Data Block to meet the needs of the twenty-first century bibliographic environment. There are numerous changes to the data block layout, including the use of labels to clearly identify the different components within the block, addition of Resource Description and Access (RDA) and electronic resource data elements, and a URL that links directly to the LC catalog for easy retrieval of bibliographic records. The proposed version of the CIP Data Block was shared at the 2015 Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association. After incorporating recommendations received at the conference, the Library of Congress made some revisions and requested further input through June 1, 2015. Additional changes were made based on this input.

A summary of the proposed changes, examples of the new CIP Data Block, and a list of MARC fields that will be included or excluded can be found at:

Cataloging in Publication Data Block
(Word, 25 KB)

The revisions to the CIP data block, as it will appear in books, will not impact MARC records created by the Library of Congress, and the Library’s MARC record distribution process will remain unchanged.

Please find more information here :

Cataloging and Metadata: Library of Congress Introduces New Cataloging in Publication Data Block

Results from International Linked Data Survey for Implementers

October 14, 2014 by Shu Liu Leave a Comment

I recently participated in the survey hosted by OCLC Research. The results are quite fascinating and useful:

There are lots of practical info and wisdom if you have the time and interest digging in!

The topic of Linked Data is a ginormous monster; however, we can conquer it if we poke its brain one cell at a time (sounds brutal but very strategic :o)

Related, here is access to the article I recently published with Sara Seltzer (who has left UCI, sigh) and Alex Bisio, “Deconstructing the Critical Theory Archive at UCI: An Experiment with EAC-CPF and Linked Open Data”

Enjoy!

Cataloging that works: How to make e-books findable

July 10, 2014 by Chloe Mae Lerit Leave a Comment

This presentation is from the ALA 2014 Annual Meeting at Las Vegas

Catherine Sassen, Principal Catalog Librarian, University of North Texas Libraries, presented “Cataloging that works: How to make e-books findable”.This presentation focused on results of a study conducted to determine if the inclusion of summary notes and/or table of contents notes in catalog records is associated with higher usage of e-books in a large university library. The presenter shared such findings, as titles with recent publication dates were used more; having both TOCs and summary notes in records increased ebook usage; and oldest and newest ebook titles with catalog enhancements were used more frequently. – See more at:

http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306050/m1/1/

Roy Tennant on OCLC’s Linked Data Future

June 19, 2014 by Chloe Mae Lerit Leave a Comment

Prezi slideshow version of Roy Tennant’s presentation, “It’s Not the Record, It’s the Linkage”, given at the OCLC Member Forum / SCTPG Linked Data program, held on June 17th, 2014 at Cal State Northridge.

Prior to his talk, Tennant admitted he would be delving into “behind the firewall type stuff” — so slide contents may change depending on how OCLC feels about the breach. This talk fits well with Michael Colby’s UC Davis Bibflow presentation, as mentioned in prior posts.

http://prezi.com/gzfogctcyrdn/its-not-the-record-its-the-linkage/

Registering Researchers in Authority Files

March 31, 2014 by Chloe Mae Lerit 2 Comments

OCLC news at ALA Midwinter sessions:

http://oclc.org/research/activities/registering-researchers.html

The Registering Researchers Task Group aims to create a concise report that summarizes the benefits and trade-offs of emerging approaches to the problem of incomplete national authority files.

Background

National name authority files are incomplete. Many researchers—tenured and non-tenured faculty and graduate students—are only partially represented in national name authority files. National name authority files cover poorly authors of journal articles and exclude researchers who do not publish but who create or contribute to data sets and other research activities. Uniquely identifying the academic authors of all publications, including journal articles, and researchers who do not publish, facilitates compiling individuals’ scholarly output, especially as their affiliations change over time. The scholarly output is a factor in the reputation and ranking of the scholar’s affiliated institution.

Impact

Our goal is to identify:

the benefits, needs, and challenges for integrated author identification;
approaches to effectively integrate multiple author identifier systems, and to reconcile information from multiple sources; and
models, channels and workflows for registering and maintaining integrated author and researcher information.

The broader impact of this work will be to make it easier for researchers and institutions to more accurately measure their scholarly output.

Details

ORCID. Open Researcher & Contributor ID is an international, interdisciplinary not-for-profit organization seeking to solve name ambiguity in scholarly communications. ORCID aims to solve the name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a registry of persistent unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID, other ID schemes, and research objects such as publications, grants, and patents. Participating in the ORCID Launch Partners Program are research institutions, publishers, research funders, data repositories, and third party providers, including The American Physical Society, Aries Systems, Avedas, Boston University, the California Institute of Technology, CrossRef, Elsevier, Faculty of 1000, figshare, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, KNODE, Nature Publishing Group, SafetyLit, Symplectic, Thomson Reuters, Total-Impact, and the Wellcome Trust.

ISNI. The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is an ISO standard (ISO 27729) that identifies public identities of parties—the identities used publicly by individuals or organizations involved in creating, producing, managing and distributing content. The ISNI system uniquely and authoritatively identifies public identities across multiple fields of creative activity.

VIAF is an international authority database. National libraries plus selected regional and trans-national library agencies contribute their authority files to the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), which links together the authority data provided for a given entity.

BIBFRAME in practice : BIBFLOW – An IMLS Project of the UC Davis University Library

February 13, 2014 by Chloe Mae Lerit Leave a Comment

BIBFLOW is a two-year project of the UC Davis University Library, funded by Institute of Museum and Library Services. Its official title is “Reinventing Cataloging: Models for the Future of Library Operations”. It will investigate the future of library technical services, i.e., cataloging and related workflows, in light of modern technology infrastructure such as the Web and new data models and formats such as Resource Description and Access (RDA) and BIBFRAME, the new encoding and exchange format in development by the Library of Congress.

This is from the online roundup of ALA Midwinter 2014 top picks

“Our hypothesis is that, while these new standards and technologies are sorely needed to help the library community leverage the benefits and efficiencies that the Web has afforded other industries, we cannot adopt them in an environment constrained by complex workflows and interdependencies on a large ecosystem of data, software and service providers that are change resistant and motivated to continue with the current library standards (e.g. Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (or AACR) and MARC. Research is required on how research libraries should adapt our practices, workflows, software systems and partnerships to support our evolution to new standards and technologies.As part of this research, we will be collaborating and communicating with partners across the library data ecosystem – key organizations like the Library of Congress and OCLC, library vendors, standards organizations like NISO, software tool vendors and commercial data providers, and other libraries that are trying to plan for change, such as the BIBFRAME “early experimenters”. Through this combination of research, collaboration, and outreach, our project will create a roadmap for the community, and particularly academic research libraries, and is designed in such a way that, as the new data models, standards, workflows and practices emerge and evolve the roadmap can be continuously updated with new roads and milestones.”

Congratulations to our colleagues. For more information please find the link below:

http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/bibflow/

….and the link to the available grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services

http://www.imls.gov/applicants/available_grants.aspx