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Reading alphabet soup: RDA , the JSC, the PCC, and the future of cataloging

Reading alphabet soup: RDA , the JSC, the PCC, and the future of cataloging. Matthew Beacom PCC Participants Meeting ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois June 26, 2005. Current roles of AACR and PCC. AACR

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Reading alphabet soup: RDA , the JSC, the PCC, and the future of cataloging

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  1. Reading alphabet soup:RDA, the JSC, the PCC, and the future of cataloging Matthew Beacom PCC Participants Meeting ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois June 26, 2005

  2. Current roles of AACR and PCC • AACR • The content standard for describing library materials and making access points for them • Vital part of library cataloging work • Purpose: describe and organize library resources to support their discovery and use • PCC • An organization promoting shared work in library cataloging • Looks at whole of library cataloging work • Purpose: cooperatively increase quality and quantity library cataloging, or, more, better, faster, cheaper

  3. A bit about RDA and PCC • How will RDA differ from AACR2? • Display separated from recording data • Deeply FRBRized • Designed for digital environment • How does PCC influence work on RDA? • Through its liaison on CC:DA • Use of back channels to AACR constituencies, other rule makers, libraries, etc. • How else might PCC influence RDA?

  4. The future of cataloging: 4 texts • Opacs and Our Changing Environment: Observations, Hopes, and Fears / Dale Flecker. Jan. 2005 • www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/archive/opacfuture-flecker.pp • To integrate, disintegrate / Lorcan Dempsey. June 20, 2005 Weblog • http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000701.html • The Future of Cataloging / Deanna Marcum. Jan. 16 2005 • http://www.loc.gov/library/reports/CatalogingSpeech.pdf • Metadata's Bitter Harvest / Roy Tennant. • Library Journal. July 2004. Vol. 129, No. 12.

  5. Multiple information universes • Once, the bibliographic universe • AACR, MARC, OPAC • Now, an information multiverse • HTML, XML, MPEG21, Google, etc. • Future, what role for libraries and catalogs in the information multiverse? • Services to users built upon collections and metadata

  6. Future roles for RDA and PCC • RDA • A content standard for describing information resources, and for relating them to one another (and other relevant entities); it is designed for a digital, networked environment that integrates with analog resources • Vital part of information services work • Purpose: describe and organize information resources to support their discovery and use

  7. Future roles for RDA and PCC • PCC • An organization promoting shared work in providinginformation services based on good quality metadata • Looks at whole of information services work • Purpose: cooperatively increase quality of information services by increasing production of good quality metadata

  8. Opportunities for PCC • Change the name • From Cataloging to Metadata • Restructure the organization • Unify: no BIBCO, no CONSER, etc. • Expand membership • Publishers, vendors, users • Expand domain • From bibliographic control to metatdata support for information services • Change the culture • No more us/them thinking

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