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.
62 pages
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179 leaves; text block: 26.6 x 19.1 cm (10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches); text area: 17 x 13 cm (6 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches); oak covers: 27.3 x 19.8 cm (10 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches)
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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 [email protected]
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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.
