ALCTS CRS Holdings Information Committee at ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia
From:
Danielle Watters Westbrook <danielle.westbrook_at_ucop.edu>
** Kindly excuse cross-postings **
Please join the ALCTS CRS Holdings Information Committee at ALA
Midwinter in Philadelphia:
Saturday, January 25th from 3:00-4:00 pm in the Pennsylvania Convention
Center, Room 203 B.
_BIBFRAME and the future of holdings information_
Our first speaker, Rebecca Guenther, will discuss the BIBFRAME
initiative and the effects it will have on the communication of holdings
information. The Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) is an
effort to provide a foundation for the future exchange of bibliographic
description. It develops a model and ontology for describing
bibliographic data, addressing both future data exchange and a
transition path for existing MARC 21 bibliographic data. The Framework
is a Linked Data Model that defines information entities - relating to
bibliographic description, holdings, and authority. The intention is to
enable the rich metadata available in libraries and other cultural
heritage institutions to be part of the global web of data. BIBFRAME is
in development and at this time the holdings focus is on the "obtain"
function of bibliographic data, rather than prediction. This
presentation will summarize the BIBFRAME Data Model in general and how
holdings information fits into it by using BIBFRAME Annotations and RDF
Classes HeldMaterial and HeldItem. It will illustrate various common
scenarios and describe the properties in the BIBFRAME vocabulary
relevant to holdings.
Rebecca will be followed by Diane Hillmann, who will discuss her
research and share her thoughts on the future of holdings data. Of all
the MARC 21 formats, Holdings was the one most clearly designed for
machine manipulation. It is granular, flexible, and intended to be used
at either a detailed or summary level. It has sometimes frightened
potential users because it looks complex (even where it isn't), and in
its "native" form is not particularly human friendly. Some of the
complexity arises because there are both display and prediction aspects
in the encoding, and not all library systems have developed predictive
serial check-in systems supported by MARC Holdings. Some of the
bibliographic metadata efforts now going forward ignore the existing
MARC Holdings, sometimes in favor of simpler solutions based on the
perception of the waning need for predictive check-in for digital
subscriptions. Not much effort has been expended to bring the MARC
Holdings format forward into the discussions about changing requirements
and re-use of existing standards. As part of this presentation, Diane
will review the effort to put the MARC21 Bibliographic Format into a
very granular RDF expression, creating the possibility of lossless
mapping. In this context, what can be done to follow that model for MARC
Holdings, and what would that look like?"
Rebecca Guenther has 35 years of experience in national libraries,
primarily working on library technology standards related to digital
libraries. Most of her professional life has been at the Library of
Congress in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office developing
national and international standards related to metadata. In addition
she is an adjunct professor in NYU's Moving Image Archiving and
Preservation Program and at Rutgers School of Communication and
Information and consults on metadata issues.
Diane Hillmann is currently Director of Metadata Initiatives for the
Information Institute of Syracuse. She was formerly Research Librarian,
Cornell University Library and Director of Library Services and
Operations of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). She is active
in the library standards community, having served several terms on the
MARC Standards Advisory Committee (MARBI) as a liaison from the law
library community and as a LITA representative. She currently represents
the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative on the ALA Committee on Cataloging:
Description and Access (CC:DA) discussing the new Resource Description
and Access (RDA) standard [RDA]. In addition, she serves as the
Standards Coordinator for the Library Information Technology Association
(a division of the American Library Association) and was recently
appointed to the NISO Content and Collection Management Topic Committee.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Danielle Watters Westbrook on behalf of the ALCTS CRS Holdings
Information Committee
Danielle Watters Westbrook
Shared Print Collections Analyst
California Digital Library
danielle.westbrook_at_ucop.edu
510-987-0095
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John P. Abbott, MS MSLS
Coordinator, Collection Management
Professor, University Library
Appalachian State University
ASU Box 32026
218 College Street
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-2821 (vox)
828-262-2773 (fax)
abbottJP_at_appstate.edu
Received on Sat Jan 11 2014 - 03:02:52 EST