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...
See also
Formats and Standards
Metadata Resources by Stephen J. Miller is excellent. It breaks down metadata data standards into their types (structure,content, value,data format, data presentation). It includes a very useful simple diagram of the library metadata universe and a bibliography for the intrepid explorer who wishes to know more.
Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd Edition (AACR2)
Book Industry Standards and Communications System of Classification (BISAC) Subject Headings
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)
Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST)
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)
- ALA ALCTS American Library Association - Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (pronounced ah-lecks). See especially
- Cataloging Committee on Description and Access (CC:DA) 'the ALA committee which deals with editorial content of RDA, technically housed within ALCTS but has representation from other ALA divisions. If you want to submit a proposal for a rule change, this is the clearinghouse for people in the United States. The committee documents are useful for following potential rule-changes but dive into this at your own risk...this is hard core cataloger territory
Terminology
Library terminology informally explained
Tools
Working with MaRC - Lists a variety of applications and modules
