Please excuse multiple postings.
The LITA/ALCTS MARC Formats Interest Group will hold its Midwinter
meeting at the Dallas Convention Center, Room C149, on Saturday,
January 21, 2012, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
The discussion topic will be "What Lies Beyond MARC?" The Library of
Congress has announced its Bibliographic Framework Initiative, which
includes plans to find a successor to the MARC format. Three speakers
will share their thoughts on this topic.
One of our previously announced speakers, Mark Ehlert, is
unfortunately unable to travel and has had to withdraw from this
session. However, he has generously offered to share some material
covering his planned topic of the relationship between RDA and MARC. A
handout will be available at the session and will also be posted
online.
We are very grateful to Diane Hillmann for agreeing to step in as a
late replacement, joining our other speakers Kelly McGrath and
Jennifer Bowen.
Kelley McGrath is Metadata Management Librarian at the University of
Oregon. Kelley has chaired OLAC's Cataloging Policy Committee,
coordinated the OLAC/MLA RDA test group and is currently serving as
OLAC's liaison to CC:DA. She will discuss some functionality that she
would like to see in a post-MARC format and some challenges for the
transition.
Jennifer Bowen is Assistant Dean for Information Management Services
at the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries. She is
currently Chair of the eXtensible Catalog Organization and has served
as the ALA representative to the Joint Steering Committee for
AACR2/RDA. She will speak about how eXtensible Catalog (XC) can
facilitate the transition between a MARC environment and a non-MARC
environment for libraries, how XC can inform the development of the
new bibliographic framework, lessons learned from manipulation of XML
records that represent FRBR Group 1 entities, and XC's potential for
producing Linked Data.
Diane Hillmann is one of the managers of the Open Metadata Registry.
She will talk about a new and interesting resource that appeared this
summer on the Open Metadata Registry: the complete set of MARC
Bibliographic properties with URIs, definitions and RDFS
(http://marc21rdf.info/). What can be done with that, if anything?
Diane will talk about the next steps in 'building up' from the basics.
A short business meeting will follow at the conclusion of the
presentations. Expressions of interest are sought for the role of
co-chair for this Interest Group.
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Chew Chiat Naun
University of Minnesota Libraries
160 Wilson Library
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612) 625-5615
Received on Thu Jan 12 2012 - 15:25:17 EST