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  • Joshua
    • Jackie Shieh (Smithsonian) exhorted catalogers (yet again) not to fret over unfamiliarity with underlying coding of SPARQL and other LD technologies, assuring us that interfaces will be provided. Analogy: we all use Connexion Client and (almost) none of us know or care that ‘Desc’ is character 18 in the Leader of the fixed fields.
    • University of Wyoming demoed their process of inserting JPEGs into Sierra records to display thumbnails and full images of equipment available for checkout. (Discussion at our meeting speculated that thy are using Millenium Media Manager, a product we have available).
    • TJ Kao (George Washington U) discussed workarounds for network zone vs. institutional zone in Alma/Primo. They use MARC Format for Holdings Data to insert fields like 541, 561, 563, etc. but have to map them to local 9XX fields to prevent them from displaying in NZ.
    • At a cataloging ethics discussion, a representative from Baker & Taylor mentioned a growing awareness at the company of market pressure to inject “advertising” into vendor-created catalog data as a means of tooling catalog data for discovery tools. That is, kind of like SEO for library discovery tools.
    • That same discussion group mentioned the need for clear statements of purpose for the National Authority File – is it for bibliographical disambiguation? Or for biographically-infused identity management? The temptation is there to record much more personally identifying information than is necessary (or in some cases more than is safe).
  • Emily
    • As part of CaMMS Executive Committee, Emily heard updates on the formation of an ALCTS ethics committee that will be assessing and drafting statements on cataloging ethics issues. The committee is being chaired by Beth Shoemaker and Karen Snow. RSVPs are out now to join working groups within the committee. Their work is being kept up here: http://sites.google.com/view/cataloging-ethics
    • The ALCTS CaMMS Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) wanted to pursue the issue of aliens / illegal aliens with the Library of Congress. A meeting was held between ALCTS and LC representatives. LC feels directed to "adhere to US Code" in the use of the term "illegal." A productive meeting, though, and SAC hopes to find a way to move forward.
  • Lucas
    • OCLC Linked Data Roundtable: LC is integrating LCCN into Wikidata entries, updating every two weeks. LC Photographic Section have a way to use Wikidata data points to support contextual browsing.
    • Cataloging & Classification Interest Group: German National Library is using machine learning to do Dewey Decimal Classification as a response to being unable to keep up with influx of cataloging. Storing machine-generated data in MARC field 883.
    • Technical Services Workflow Efficiencies Interest Group: Lehigh University is uing a Google App script to search OCLC automatically. "Match-MARC" is an add-on. It searches Google Sheets columns of ISBN or LCCN against WorldCat and downloads matching data. The spreadsheet can then be passed to MarcEdit to create MARC records or used to output OCLC numbers to use Connexion Client to do a batch search.
  • Lisa
    • Reports on the LD4P project discussed developments with the BIBFRAME editor Sinopia. There was discussion of the development of an authority data normalization layer to search varying authority data sources (i.e. not just NAF) at the same time.
    • The movie Change the Subject was shown at ALA. It deals with the genesis of the aliens / illegal aliens subject change, which started among students at Dartmouth.
    • LC's BIBFRAME catalog is now available (experimentally) at id.loc.gov.

Cataloging Show-and-Tell

05-21-19 (DRAFT)

PCC OpCO meeting report

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