CC:DA Report from the 2012 ALA Annual Conference -- Anaheim, CA
This update outlines the highlights of the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) meeting at the recent 2012 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim. All CC:DA documentation, including this meeting's complete agenda and reports, is available here: http://alcts.ala.org/ccda/index.html. As always, please contact me if you have questions.
Report from the Chair
- It's been a busy winter/spring and we expect another flurry of activity in August & September.
- New liaison appointed from ACRL's Rare Books and Manuscripts Section: Frances Lapka of the Yale Center for British Art.
Report from the Library of Congress Representative, Barbara Tillett
- Detailed report here: http://www.loc.gov/ala/an-2012-update.html
- FYI, linked data/semantic web is not the only new model for a bibliographic framework they're exploring. [DPL note: she didn't say what those were, if they indeed exist!]
Report of the ALA Representative to the Joint Steering Committee, John Attig
- 4 areas of JSC activity:
- Rewording of RDA; Establishing RDA vocabularies & metadata sets/registries; Correcting text of RDA; and
- Revision proposals for the November JSC meeting, Nov. 6-9 in Chicago. Deadline for submitting proposals is August 8; a few highlights of new proposals:
- Other places associated with a person
- Number, date, and location of a conference
- Reorganization of instructions on saints
- Reorganization of instructions for recording extent
- Sources for preferred titles in different languages
Report from the TF on Machine-Actionable Data Elements in RDA Chapter 3
- This was a great paper proposing a complete reworking of Chapter 3 to conform to an "Aspect-Unit-Quantity" model for describing extent and dimensions. [DPL note: I highly recommend reading it: http://alcts.ala.org/ccda/docs/tf-MRData3.pdf]
- There was some discussion about whether a textual string would have to be entered *as well as* fielded entries for the A-U-Q model; many of us hope not, and think that linking fields could be accomplished to make displays clear.
- Passed with proposed changes -- will go to the JSC as a discussion paper.
Revision proposals from AALL and CEAL -- RDA 16.2.2.9 (Places in certain federations)
- Approved with the following changes: Historical jurisdictions -- leave in; remove Ireland from 16.2.2.10; as a short-term solution, include a generalized version of the CEAL proposal as an alternative/option -- but we need examples, contribute them to the wiki
- Work towards a proposal with a wider scope: to treat all countries the same. This will be some form of the 'generalized' CEAL proposal becoming the primary instruction instead of an alternative/option.
Report from the PCC liaison
- Fall 2012 goal for providing a SINGLE bibliographic standard record (for ALL formats and ALL communities) for community comment
- LCPS will become LC-PCC policy statements in RDA; LC-only practices will be identified in the RDA Toolkit.
Report from ALA Publishing Services
- Toolkit renewal rates lower than they'd like (60%) -- in order to break even they need 3 or 4 times as many subscribers. They've been losing money
- Rewording: goal to have updated RDA Chapters 9-11, 6, 2 and a couple more in Toolkit by December.
- April 2012 update affected 90% of the print version; new cumulation coming in December.
- Many Toolkit functionality updates.
Report from the TF on Sources of Information -- revision proposals
- Appendix A: RDA 2.2.2.1 and 2.2.4 to clarify the status of container as part of a resource, approved
- Appendix B: RDA 2.1.2.2, Resource Issued as a Single Unit and 2.2.3, More Than One Preferred Source of Information -- direction of the proposal endorsed; TF will continue work
- Appendix C: RDA 2.1.2.3, Resource Issued in More Than One Part -- more work to be done on the wiki, online
- Appendix D: RDA 2.2.2.2-2.2.2.4 -- principally for dealing with embedded metadata; waiting for more formal proposal with suggested changes
- Workflow/flowchart on how to make decisions about identifying preferred source—will be worked on for inclusion with the proposal.
CC:DA also heard reports from the following TFs and/or approved the following proposals as written or with minor changes:
- Report from the TF to Revise Building International Descriptive Cataloging Standards -- revision to an introductory document defining CC:DA
- Report from the TF on RDA Instructions for Governmental and Non-Governmental Corporate Bodies -- Revision proposals approved with some editorial changes before it goes to the JSC. A very thorough and clear 63-page report.
- Report from the TF on Relationship Designators in RDA Appendix K (Appendix K "provides general guidelines on using relationship designators to specify relationships between persons, families, and corporate bodies, and lists relationship designators used for that purpose.") -- This TF has more work to do and will aim to produce a completed proposal by the end of August.
- Report from the TF to Investigate Changes Affecting RDA in the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition -- Full report due at Midwinter; TF will continue their work, mainly editorial/cosmetic changes.
- Report from the RDA Conference Forums and Programs TF -- Will be disbanded after Annual 2013.
- Report from the RDA Planning and Training TF -- This report is a great source for all the RDA webinars produced to date -- it lists and links to all of them:
http://alcts.ala.org/ccda/docs/RDATraining1206.pdf
- Report from the MARBI Representative -- See Liz O'Keefe's report, forthcoming.
- MLA revision proposal re: librettos -- Further discussion and straw poll to be taken online -- proposal, alternative, or...?
- Revision proposal from OLAC on video encoding formats -- Approved pending editorial changes.
- Revision proposal regarding Hearings -- RDA 19.2.1.1.1, approved.
- Report of the CC:DA webmaster -- demo of a Wordpress option for the CC:DA web site; we'll discuss potential future uses of the site at Midwinter.
Submitted by Dan Lipcan (Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
dan.lipcan@metmuseum.org
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