ALA general notes - Annual 1998, Washington
SACO workshop (Thursday)
morning workshop on establishing headings
- ca. 10K new headings per year (2K via SACO); ca. 5-6 weeks in process (SHEd is working on four batches of headings at any time); only 5 people can revise SH records (not even Lynn) - LC maintains list of rejected or not-yet-accepted headings (not in any cumulative file; rely on memory) - headings can be found on old cards that are not in LCSH (if appropriate, will be re-established) - 1994 stopped making dup records for names used as subjects
- appropriate, sufficient, reasonable (not exhaustive) research - if 2 or 3 sources agree, ok to stop; if ambiguity or conflict, continue
- types of headings: if you ask how many, in plural; if you ask how much, in singular
- extinct cities are in SAF for administrative reasons
- subdivision records will have sh prefix (systems people vetoed sd prefix)
- use subdivision for attribute, process, or part;
invert for nationality, ethnic group, time period, fossil
- about 55% of headings can be subdivided geographically - if an older heading should be sudivided but SH doesn't indicate, good candidate for change
- inverted references not made if lead term in inversion would be BT
afternoon workshop on geographic names and events
- Taiwan will keep Wade-Giles
- GNIS and GeoNet have more references than BGN - LC hasn't come to terms with selecting when there are many references
- extinct cities: use modern name if continuously inhabited; use extinct city if coincidence of modern and ancient site
Big Heads (Friday a.m.)
- Lee Leighton is chair elect
- electronic publications: UMich extracting to registry of ERs (anything with 856) - 6% of links dead ("link rot")
- CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) - Mellon funding - working papers from 65 institutes - preprints- working on computing infrastructure - using 956 for links and would like to do them as copy statements (mulvers) - also get cataloging in OPAC and go to RLIN and OCLC
SAC Subcommittee on Metadata and Classification (Friday p.m.)
SAC Subcommittee on Form/Genre Implementation (Friday evening)
- LC will start implementing $v in the fall - prospective only, not retrospective - LC will try to do some training materials on webpage - implementation oversight by SAC subcommittee
- OCLC is working on high-level requirements for implementation - then goes to programmers - then detailed requirements - will index as subject as well as adding FG (form/genre) and SD (subdivision) searches in authority file - will try to load children's SH at same time
- Voyager 97.2 will include $v
- NLM will start using 155 and $v - authority file is reissued every year so retro not a big problem (elsewhere I heard they won't do pre-coordination anymore)
- Gary Strawn built form/genre records from H1095-H1200 lists based on LC word processing file - used as basis for diamonded headings in SCM - diamonds used if any part is form; tag will be driven by $a, e.g. --Foreign relations--Treaties - two records if subdivision can be both topical and form (Gary doesn't like multiple uses; some discussion of disambiguating) - maybe won't do records with multiple subdivisions - some children's form subdivisions vary from adult, e.g. --Guides vs. --Guidebooks
- the subcommittee plans to have a forum at Midwinter
MARBI (Saturday a.m., Sunday p.m., Monday p.m.)
- 98-7 (incorrect dates in 008 and 046) - RLG counterproposal approved in part (only corrected dates in 008, dates on piece in 046; $f and $g for incorrect dates) - not 008 x indicating incorrect dates
- 98-8 (853-855) - revision of frequency coding for regular irregularities
- 98-9 (calculated numbers in LCC)
- 98-10 ($0 for record control number in Classif and CIF) - cleanup (deleted)
- 98-11 (holdings standardZ39.71 updated) - change values in holdings and bib formats in line with Z39.71)
- 98-12 (355 security) - approved (NIMA has selected Endeavor)
- 98-13 (856 in authority format) - approved - general use of $3 will be topic of future discussion paper
- 98-14 (052 country code for NIMA) - approved with option 1
- 98-15 (obsolete bib fields) - 4XXs kept for recon purposes (will have to be added to CanMARC documentation) - X11 $q kept (e.g. Venice. Biennale ...)
- 98-16 (nonfiling characters) - support for general technique turning on and off - maybe need something to indicate a normally normalized-out character could be made filing (e.g. sharps and flats, section symbol)
- 98-17 (reading program) - accepted with "Study Program ..." as name - $5 should be used for local programs and not for commercial programs - display constant (1 = "Reading program")
- 98-18 (Unicode) - accepted with option 1 (Ldr/09)
- DP 108 (language of heading in authority record) - kluge record not so interesting - overall approach is hopeful: multiple headings vs. linked records, extensibility to authorities, etc., exchange, add languages later without redoing catalog, default language
- DP 109 (transliteration schemes)
- DP 110 (CF 007 for digital preservation info) - further discussion on listserve
- DP 111 (alternate graphic scheme) - single field holding all scripts is ideal model (880 process in roman-centric)
- business meeting: print concise coming out now; new GAC list; combined (US and Can) format for both bib and auth hopefully this year; holdings update this year; new editions next year of holdings, classification, CIF; name of combined edition not yet determined; "pre" coding problem in web documentation (shorter lines will be used); everything being moved from gopher server to web, and page will be reorganized; list archive can be searched
- EAC subcommittee: EAC to Unicode; 400 difficulties and proposal next time
- issues to come: 007 for ongoing entities; MARC implications from REUSE project (German cataloging rules and AACR2)
Cataloging Management Discussion Group (Sat. p.m.)
- Karen Calhoun (Cornell) on "user-centered quality"
- John Schalow (UMd) on "quality cataloging": mostly speed (OCLC bib notification)
- Heidi Hanson (UMd) on TSD help desk: started out as part of one person's job; being made a fulltime position
- Diane Boehr (Costabile Assoc.) on RFPs for contract cataloging
Q&A: Cornell uses call numbers and doesn't worry about series decisions (cleans 'em up if they hiccough); 33% of PromptCat titles have series (CUL?)
CC:DA TF on Metadata (Sunday a.m.)
- Michael Fox on EAD
- Stu Weibel on DC
- Bill Moen on CIMI - working on system independence and interoperability - Z39.50
- Willy Cromwell-Kessler on integration of various resources and varying metadata
- Cilla Caplan on metadata from publishers - talk about high authority control but without librarian or A&I community input
- chief source - browser may change display of information
current taskforce has been dismissed with final editing of report; new joint taskforce and specific CC:DA taskforce to look at other metadata schemes, starting with VRA
- desire to build one rich record from which various products can be obtained (e.g. OPAC record, bibliographies, finding aids, ER metadata)
- minutes by Judith Hopkins, University at Buffalo
PCC (Sunday evening)
- Sally Sinn (NAL) is new chair of PCC
- Joan Schuitema is now on CC:DA as rep from PCC
- NUC code for PCC to be used in 64X treatment fields of SARs
- serials cataloging training program: input from PCC, NASIG, ALCTS, etc.; modular training materials; train the trainers
- CONSER perspectives: 825K records; standards and cooperation; master record approach; legal and rare modules being developed; full, associate, affiliate, OCLC Enhance memberships
- talked to Ann Caldwell (OLAC coordinator): she is looking for more participants more as a mission than lack of input though small number of significant participating institutions
CC:DA/MARBI joint meeting (Monday a.m.)
- VRA core as content in addition to data structure - TF
- 0.24 and John's questions - where do we say "general material designation"? (GMD, 007, 006, 008, 655, $v) - which are controlled by rules? - GMD as early warning but not always reliable - currently apples and oranges, chairs and tables, etc. in GMD - can we/should we say a primary format? - compound GMD discussed by cartographic materials catalogers
- seriality vs. ongoing entities - analysis by AV catalogers is more than normal serial analysis
- natural history conference successful
summary report by Sherman Clarke
sherman.clarke@gmail.com
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