Digging into metadata: context, code, and collaboration
Contents
Digging into metadata: context, code, and collaboration preconference discussion/handout
Preconference topics for discussion
Resources
This section provides some background information and general resources that are available. A good place to look when your cataloger starts speaking in numbers and acronyms...
Formats and Standards
Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd Edition (AACR2)
Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books (DCRM(B))
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)
Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF)
Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD)
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)
International Standard Serials Number
Library of Congress Classification (LCC)
Library of Congress Rule Interpretations (LCRI)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
MARC Standards - Includes MARC code lists
MARC 21 Documentation - Includes mappings
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Metadata Encoding and Transmission (METS)
OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards
ONline Information EXchange (ONIX):
Resource Description and Access (RDA): Library of Congress, Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC)
Sears Subject Headings
Understanding MARC:
Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)
Organizations
Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information (MARBI) Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC) Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC)
- Monographic Bibliographic Record Program of the PCC (BIBCO)
- Cooperative Online Serials (CONSER)
- Name Authority Cooperative Program of the PCC (NACO)
- Subject Authority Cooperative Program of the PCC (SACO)
Terminology
Library terminology informally explained
Tools
Working with MaRC - Lists a variety of applications and modules Cataloger's Desktop Cataloging Calculator Classification Web RDA Toolkit
