MODS and MADS: Current implementations and future directions ALA Annual Conference 2010 Sunday, June 28, 2010 10:30 to noon Intro, Jenn Riley: Metadata Librarian, Indiana U. Digital Library Program MODS 3.4 schema released June 2010. MODS/MADS editorial committee considering overall direction for MODS 4.0. mods 3.4 has support for RDA descriptions better handling of subject vocabularies (specify vocabulary at relevant subject subelements, specify vocabularies and terms by URI. Better support for multilingual cataloging expanded the use of the usage attribute expanded use of the displayLabel attribute. Ability to bind a specific name to a title to create a Uniform title. The ability to mark selected elements as containing cataloger-supplied data (rather than brackets, etc.). Various changes to make the schema itself for consistent, easier to manage and of greater utility to other applications importing elements from the MODS namespace. For mods 4.0 thinking of a more formal data model, maybe…
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Electronic Resources Management Interest Group: Friday, June 27th, 6:30-8:00pm
SUSHI– Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) update: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi Adam Chandler presented an overview of what was happening with SUSHI – it’s available at http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/info/SUSHI_ALA_Annual_2008-nisoupdate.ppt. First he gave some background on SUSHI itself. SUSHI uses the COUNTER schema – it’s a protocol for moving statistics between two systems. Just the exchange – COUNTER actually codifies what’s in the reports. He presented conceptual diagrams of how the information is exchanged. Then he talked about a survey of content providers and consolidators done in May 2008. Most consolidators plan to have support for SUSHI 1.5 by late 2008 or one in early 2009. Content providers were mostly going to implement in 2009, although some would be early, and some are still deciding. Adam also called for volunteers for the NISO steering group, especially those with access to data such as those who work for a consortium. He also called for “Sushi Shokunin 
You Know FRBR, But Have You Ever Met FRAD
Time and Location: Sunday, 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm, Anaheim Convention Center, 210 A-C One would expect for something that old (in Google time) such as Ferber (FRBR), which has been around since 1998, to have spawned some kin. Meet Fred, er, FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data). And they didn’t tell you that in this program, you also will meet Farsar (FRSAR – Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records). Actually, the first hour and a half of this program dealt with updates on activities at the Library of Congress (by Dave Reser) and at OCLC (by Robert Bremer). The next hour and a half was devoted to the main program topic and the last hour was for a meeting of the LITA/ALCTS Authority Control Interest Group. The cataloging and metadata crowd must have been conferenced out by this time because attendance was low compared to the sessions Getting Ready…
ISO Guidelines for the Creation of a Metadata Crosswalk
Folks, this is the first of a rash of announcements about NISO votes and the solicitation of comments prior to those votes. Some of them have very short deadlines, unfortunately. I hope that the expressions of interest received on some of the earlier calls for comments continue! Although the following standard is particularly targeted at records management, it surely could have some relevance to any of us concerned with metadata crosswalks. These have as usual been forwarded from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO. This one is concerning an ISO Committee Draft of an International Standard issued for ballot: ISO NWI, Document management — Guidelines for the creation of a metadata crosswalk. Comments and vote recommendations from NISO members are due to NISO by Feb. 15, 2008, but as Cindy has three NISO voting deadlines on the 15th, she needs any responses for this standard by Feb. 11. Information provided…
Real-World Metadata Management
Speaker: Mark Phillips, University of North Texas Mark discussed the experienced he has had as manager of the Digital Projects Unit at the University of North Texas Libraries. Their projects include the Portal to Texas History, a multi-institutional repository of approximately 20,000 items relating to Texas History; the CyberCemetery, a collection of websites from defunct government agencies; Congressional Research Service reports; and other digital collections from the UNT libraries. All together, he said that they manage approximately 70,000 items, with a total of around 500,000 pages, and they expect to double that number within the next year. Mark described their technical environment. They use an open-source asset management system, Keystone from Index Data, which they have heavily customized. They use the same modified Dublin Core metadata in all their collections, which has allowed them to maintain consistency of cataloging, but he admitted that many of their controlled vocabulary and…