Digging into metadata: context, code, and collaboration

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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)

Dublin Core (DC)

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

MARCXML

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Metadata Encoding and Transmission (METS)

MODS

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)

VRA Core

Organizations

Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information (MARBI)

Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC)

Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC)

ALA

Terminology

Cataloging Terms A-Z

Library terminology informally explained

Tools

Working with MaRC - Lists a variety of applications and modules

Cataloger's Desktop

Cataloging Calculator

Classification Web

RDA Toolkit