please send catalogers : metadata staffing in the 21st century

PLEASE SEND CATALOGERS:Metadata Staffing in the 21st Century

Jennifer A. Liss @cursedstorm

CaMMS Competencies and Education for a Career in Cataloging Interest Group

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What tasks are catalogers good at? Enter text here!

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Competencies vs. Performance Indicators(or, MARC is not a cataloging competency)

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Competencies for catalogers performing metadata workReimagining performance indicators

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Selected Competencies Normalizing data Parsing resource metadata Exploring information hierarchically Recognizing relationships

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Normalizing data

Applies content standards (AACR2, RDA) for resource description and access

Expand to use of: Archives (DACS) Moving images (AMIM) Cultural objects (CCO) Data sets (?)

214 p.

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What are the biases of each

standard?

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Parsing resource metadata

Assigns descriptive metadata by parsing textual materials

Expand to: Parsing visual

materials for description and access

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Are catalogers

visually literate?

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Exploring info hierarchically

Applies taxonomies by navigating broader/narrower terms (LCSH)

Expand to applying structural metadata standards: Books (TEI) Finding aids (EAD) Music (MEI)

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Domain expertise required..

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Recognizing relationships

Provides additional access points; performs subject analysis

Expand to include: ALL OF THE THINGS

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Authority data sure is important

…

n79089084

digitized book

finding aid

digitized letter

digitized photo

n80120828

appears in

appears in

bookrecord

hasAuthor

ebookrecordhasOtherForma

t

hasAuthor

isResource

hasAuthor

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With change comes opportunity

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Human dimension of tech change

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Great Expectations Everything online Everything interlinked Everything in one search box Everything in your pocket

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What about the semantic web?(It’s already here)

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Dawn of the semantic searchSchema.org, K-Graph & Hummingbird

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Schema.org

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Search results powered by semantic markup

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Schema.org

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Gmail display powered by semantic markup

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Google Knowledge Graph

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Knowledge Graph in action

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Knowledge Graph in action

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Google Hummingbird

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Google keyword search

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golden retriever

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Google semantic search

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golden retriever

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Google semantic search

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golden retriever

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Welcome, robot overlords.

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The expectation shift

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NO, IT ISN’T.

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“It’s all about keyword

searching.”

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Semantic web: SEND CATALOGERS

Normalize data Explore information hierarchically Structure data for machine manipulation Recognize and declare relationships Disambiguate persons, corporations, places, topics,

and things

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Image creditsSlide 3 Balance, Hans Splinter

Darth Vader in a Kilt playing the Bagpipes on a Unicycle, Trevor DykstraSlide 7 James Whitcomb Riley and Lew Wallace, The Lilly Library

Slide 10 Students Using Card Catalog, Indiana UniversitySlide 11 Bernard Fry with the Hazeltine 2000, Indiana

UniversitySlide 13 Calvin & Hobbes, Bill WattersonSlide 24 Android robot toy, Lucas Zallio

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THANK YOU!Find these slides:

bit.ly/sendcatalogers

Jennifer A. LissHead, Monographic Cataloging ImageIndiana University, Bloomington Librariesjaliss@indiana.edu0000-0003-3641-4427

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Please Send Catalogers: Metadata Staffing in the 21st Century by Jennifer A. Liss is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.