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Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control Second Public Hearing

Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control Second Public Hearing. Jennifer Bowen University of Rochester jbowen@library.rochester.edu Chicago, IL May 9, 2007. My perspectives. International descriptive cataloging standards development (RDA)

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Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control Second Public Hearing

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  1. Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic ControlSecond Public Hearing Jennifer Bowen University of Rochester jbowen@library.rochester.edu Chicago, IL May 9, 2007

  2. My perspectives • International descriptive cataloging standards development (RDA) • Defining/developing a next generation “catalog” • Cataloging manager at a smaller ARL institution

  3. My topics • Current structures and standards vis-à-vis RDA development • Future of controlled data • New requirements for bibliographic data • What’s needed for future standards development

  4. Current structures and standards vis-à-vis RDA

  5. RDA development structure RDA Project Manager RDA Editor JSC Secretary

  6. What can RDA accomplish? • More flexible, up-to-date standard to replace AACR2 • Create a useful tool for catalogers • Easier to train new catalogers • Facilitate cataloging digital resources in a library environment • Promote international adoption of a common standard

  7. What has hampered RDA development? • Too much hype! • Need for backwards compatibility • Tight funding and timeline • Success of standard tied to success of the commercial product • Consultation process needed improvement

  8. Consulting other communities • Which communities to consul? • What do we gain? • Ensuring successful consultations

  9. Which communities to consult? • Those with similar missions to our own • Archives, museums • Others whose metadata we want to share • Publishing, metadata communities • Communities that can assist us

  10. What do we gain? • Metadata interoperability • Envision technology trends and opportunities • Improve standards development process • Help us undertake user research

  11. Ensuring successful consultations • Must be at the appropriate level • Often will need to be on-going, not one-time events • Need organizational structures and funding to maintain relationships • Allow for serendipity (this needs funding too!)

  12. Recommendations for RDA • Move forward with first release in 2009 • Aggressively pursue development of RDA application profile, related efforts • Restructure JSC work to focus on consultation, not document editing

  13. Future of controlled data

  14. Controlled data: what’s needed • Need identifiers! • Evaluate potential based on well-designed systems • Provide better tools for catalogers • Facilitate faceted browsing

  15. New requirements for bibliographic data

  16. Creating richer interfaces • Web services to enrichment data • Metadata to support faceted browsing • FRBR-informed navigation • Relator information • Controlled access points

  17. Testing environments • Encourage experimentation and research • Opportunities to develop new system functionalities • User research and usability testing • Support open-source community • Feed “lessons learned” into standards development

  18. Sharing metadata • Between repositories, similar discovery environments • Share local augmentation, results of experimentation • Distinguish standard from local metadata, but share both • Within other discovery environments • Components to “connect” systems

  19. What’s needed for future standards development?

  20. What is our vision? • Users have a positive experience locating library resources • Users are led to library resources from wherever they happen to be online • Library “solutions” are seen as useful in the broader world

  21. A positive vision for bibliographic control Catalogers/metadata professionals… • Have effective tools, can focus on intellectual work • Participate in designing how systems use metadata • Contribute widely to improving shared metadata • Are confident that systems will use their work effectively

  22. What’s needed right now? • Positive, decisive future action • Clearly redefine roles and responsibilities • Explain, justify trade-offs • Articulate a positive vision for the future of bibliographic control

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