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08-06-19 (DRAFT)

Announcements

  • Community Catalog Project to be postponed to October. Stay tuned.
  • 8/20 meeting: ETD ice cream party and guest: Leslie McRoberts

Authorities Processing Refresher: Lisa Robinson

  • Metadata Management Unit
    • Comprised of Lisa Robinson, Lark Braten, Mark Andrews
  • Quick Facts
    • We have 9.5+ million bib records, 3.3+ million authority records in the catalog
    • Backstage Library Works is our authorities processing vendor for last three years
    • Last year, we sent out 250k bib records for processing, excluding Serials Solutions records because of their frequent changes and overlays. But we do include stable records from vendors in authorities processing.
    • Average of 21k bib records sent per month
    • Average of 13k authority records per month changed or updated, not including average of 950 local manual changes made
    • Locally using 982 "No Backstage" to exclude specific records from being sent for processing
    • BSL bases authority file changes sent to us on comparison against a copy of our authority file
  • What BSL does:
    • MetMan gathers each months bib records, sends to BSL
    • BSL changes headings in bibs based on authority record cross references; has some trouble with typos and incomplete string matches
    • Dumb machine stuff, for example: the keyword "gender" incorrectly added as a 6XX triggered the inclusion of 6 irrelevant corporate name headings based on cross-reference matches
    • BSL corrects skip indicators, various codes like language and country
    • Performs RDA enrichment, inserts reading level codes, URI enrichment
    • Doesn't add TOC or summaries
  • What MetMan does:
    • Responds to BSL reports on prospective headings and codes to change
    • Responds to / uses Sierra tools, e.g. daily headings report
      • Headings report helps evaluate new headings in catalog - not as useful now given BSL
      • Headings report usable as a way of finding retrospective cataloging that lacks BSL treatment
    • Local authority records
      • Minted for disambiguation (e.g. Rovi band names)
      • Aliens & Illegal aliens local changes
    • Looks for broken URLs for non-licensed resources
  • Info for original catalogers:
    • You can bring in NARs yourself for new cataloging, if you want - BSL will just overlay the record you bring in (presumably unchanged) at the end of the month
    • You should bring in NARs for any new authority work done for retrospective cataloging - BSL processes may not catch these otherwise

07-16-19 (DRAFT)

Cataloging Show-and-Tell

  • Kate
    • Executioner's log, 1600-1821 : manuscript. Cataloging still in progress. Manuscript volume kept by executioners in the Franconia region.

ALA reports (Part 2)

  • Tim
    • CC:DA
      • Tim is a member; ALA entailed many hours of meetings, updates and discussion regarding the 3R project
      • Announcements will now be made whenever BETA Toolkit is updated
      • Development of BETA Toolkit "Visual Browser" is suspended
      • BETA Toolkit becomes official Toolkit first half of 2020 at earliest (though we speculate it will be longer)
      • Policy Statements:
        • RDA worked with stakeholders to create templates
        • Reformatting existing PS's will be difficult; not sure if it will be possible
        • British Library furthest ahead; currently 200+; their PS's tend to be less detailed than LC. Mapping to BETA proving difficult with many one-to-many mappings.
        • New RDA data and MARC: discussion papers to come at Midwinter, running through Jan. 2021.
      • RDA revision procedures: Kathy Glennan advocating for quarterly updates. RDA is now atomized, so new proposals will have cascading effects.
      • Non-human personages (Kate James):
        • Fictitious characters, spirits, living animals, etc: new RDA doesn't count these as agents, but subjects aren't in scope for RDA, so these can still be treated as subjects. Only ruled out as RDA contributors and creators.
        • Could be accommodated as a generic "related entity" but still not defined as an RDA entity.
        • LC proposes to keep putting these in NAF but not to code them as RDA.
        • Guidelines would have to be a new manual outside RDA and outside PS's.
  • Nicole
    • LD4P: Sinopia BF editor is WYSIWYG - don't need to know coding to use.
    • Wikidata buzz: LC/OCLC are populating IDs for linkages
    • MarcEdit: to include an XML editor and lightweight OpenRefine
    • Janis Young: LCDGT development on hold due to issues implementing certain hierarchies
    • New ClassWeb on the way

07-02-19

ALA reports (Part 1)

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