This thread reminded me of a blog post I found back in August. Seems we're
not the only professional playing around with metadata nomenclature. The
post is titled Metadata as important as content:
http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/metadata-important-content/2009-08-05
<http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/metadata-important-content/2009-08-05>It
refers to "Metator" (I guess meta + editor?)
"In a posting on CMSWatch, Analyst Tony Byrne muses about the people who are
tasked with choosing and applying the terms that make the whole semantic
engine work. Just as an editor checks over content for grammar, spelling,
flow, accuracy and other such issues, Byrne refers to a term coming into
popular use to describe those responsible for making sure that a site's
metadata is consistent and useful: Metator."
Chris
Christine Schwartz
Metadata Librarian
Princeton Theological Seminary Library
christine.schwartz_at_ptsem.edu
Read more:
http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/metadata-important-content/2009-08-05#ixzz0Z7VSS6Qc
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:08 AM, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Jim Weinheimer pointed out this interesting report in an earlier posting:
>
> Directors' views on the future of cataloguing in Australia/New Zealand,
> 2007: a survey / Jenny Warren.
> http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/documents/Warren2007.doc
>
> A couple of excerpts...
>
> "The word 'cataloguer' is, rightly or wrongly, associated with the past and
> with one form of metadata only: MARC records. As one director commented: 'a
> 'cataloguer' is however sadly a bygone relic.'"
>
> "It was expected that the survey would provide evidence that the term
> 'cataloguer' is on the way out, particularly for non-professional staff, but
> some sites are well ahead on that score. Also, many sites reported that
> their cataloguing staff are engaged in various other activities. This
> comment from a tertiary education library: “[We do] not have specific
> 'cataloguers' any more; those professional positions in our Collection
> Management Unit are now 'CMU Team Coordinators' and they may be asked to do
> any professional tasks in the CMU.” And this also from the tertiary sector:
> “There really is no such thing as a 'cataloguer' any more. Cataloguing is
> just one of many tasks that librarians, library assistants and others
> perform. In this day and age no one should have such a narrowly defined job
> title – it’s very 1970's. Even having a separate 'technical services'
> division is extremely outmoded.”"
>
> But I'm not so sure I like the following suggestion about replacements for
> "cataloging" and "cataloger":
>
> "If the words 'cataloguer' and 'cataloguing' are on the way out, then the
> word 'metadata' has certainly caught on, and it should be remembered that
> MARC records are themselves a form of metadata. There really is no suitable
> verb for the noun 'metadata' yet, but in a recent paper, Dick Miller from
> Stanford has used the word 'metaloging' (or 'metaloguing') which is
> appealing, and a good candidate for the next label. It would be a very
> acceptable term to represent the work of describing resources in any of a
> variety of schemas, so that a 'metaloguer' could be working in MARC, XML,
> Dublin Core and so on, or with any taxonomy."
>
> Bernie Sloan
>
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Received on Tue Dec 08 2009 - 12:47:53 EST