Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Update Forum
The Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Update Forum met on Monday, June 27. There were a variety of speakers who gave updates of interest to the continuing resources cataloging community. Summaries of the reports are below.
CONSER – Les Hawkins and Hein Nguyen provided an update from CONSER and their work related to RDA. A document of standard practices was created in an effort to aid those testing RDA by providing general guidance for resolving differences between RDA Core and CSR mandatory set. The document, RDA as modified by CSR: recommended guidelines, is available from the CONSER web page http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/CSR-RDA-Test.pdf .
At the end of the testing period the list of guidelines was refined and will be brought to the operations meeting for review. The new document, which will be available on the CONSER site, describes each issue that may conflict with RDA. Under each issue the rule according to AACR2, RDA and any LCRIs are listed. This is followed by the specific question that is to be discussed at the operations meeting. Of the 13 issues illustrated in the document the committee reached an agreement on 10. Two issues were left unresolved:
- Questions about the best way to distinguish between different works with the same title
- Questions about using the 130 to identify the original language of a work
A task force has been created to discuss these remaining issues furthur.
ISSN – Regina Reynolds discussed the potential of using the ISSN in a linked data environment as an identifier. She explained a potential new policy where an ISSN would be assigned to digitized materials. She suggested that a separate number be assigned to print and digital versions of the same title.
The U.S. ISSN Center (http://www.loc.gov/issn/ ) is working on the assignment of ISSNs to onlline versions of print materials. They are currently working an a list of approximately 1200 titles.
She described a task force that is looking at FRBR to see what doesn’t quite match up between RDA and ISBD standards. They are working to synchronize the ISBD rules to better match with RDA.
Early conversations have begun with Hathi Trust and other digital repositories about the possibility of using the ISSN as an identifier.
Regina finished by explaining what was happening with PIE-J (http://www.niso.org/workrooms/piej ) this is a NISO working group that is developing recommended practices that will provide guidance on the presentation and identification of e-journals. Their goal is to solve the problem of getting the user from the citation to the actual article. They are nearing the final draft stage of the guidelines. The document will be reviewed by NISO in the fall of 2011. Next steps are to publish it as NISO recommended practice, then to distribute and publicize the content. They are considering encourqaging pu8blishers to sign on like KBART is doing and perhaps developing a symbol to market PIE-J complience.
CC:DA – report by Naomi Young
The JSC will be meeting in November; new proposals are due by August 11th; responses to those will be due in September.
Bibliographic framework transition initiative – information is up on the Library of Congress website (http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/ ) look there to find out more about what’s after MARC
The RDA test site (http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/ ) is being reworked to provide additional information as we move from testing to implication. There are some issues surrounding the use of container as the source of title and/or the collective title. There will be more discussion on this before implementation of RDA.
There was a presentation by Troy Linker about updates to the RDA Toolkit. They are extending the double user access and the ability to get a free trial subscription. They are also offering a temporary increase in user access for training purposes if you give them advanced notice. There will be a free RDA Toolkit webinar on July 12, 2011. They are working on improvements to the documentation on how to edit work flows and are in the process of translating the toolkit into French, German and Spanish. Additionally they are planning to implement virtual user group meetings which will take place a minimum of three times per year.
She also said to expect RDA training materials from PCC by October. Check the PCC web site for updated information.
Playing in the RDA Sandbox – by Valerie Boss
Valerie gave an overview of the CRCC Informal RDA Testing Task Force. More information can be found on their web page (http://connect.ala.org/node/112885 ) The task force is looking for suggestions of ways that the test records can be used in the implementation and/or training of RDA. She also asked the audience for their suggestions about how we can best use the next 18 months to prepare for the transition to RDA.
She then gave an overview of the VTLS sandbox. She explained that originally the sandbox was going to expire with the implementation of RDA. With the delay of implementation, the sandbox will continue. She also provided the following links for more related information
Access to the Sandbox – rdasandbox.vtls.com/user
CRCC web page – connect.ala.org/node/112885
Access to the VTLS OPAC – poseidon.vtls.com:9984/
RIMMF – www.marcofquality.com
