The Music Library Association’s Cataloging and Metadata Committee will hold its annual in-person meetings Thursday, February 1 and Friday, February 2, 2018. For times and locations, see the MLA 2018 program. For a preview of discussion topics, see the CMC 2018 business meeting agenda, with links to several related reports embedded. All are welcome to join us for the open portion of the meetings. Tracey Snyder CMC Chair
The final report summarizing the work of a joint MLA/OLAC task group which worked to address issues connected to 23 additions to the Genre/Form Code and Term Source Codes list (https://tinyurl.com/y7tzhr32), which are utilized in the 33X and 34X fields has been issued. The Joint MLA/OLAC 33X/34X Task Group, as it came to be known, conducted their work over the summer, with some revisions to that work completed later in the fall. The group’s full recommendations can be accessed here: https://tinyurl.com/y866dcbf. The group was assembled by OLAC Cataloging Policy Committee Chair Bruce Evans and MLA CMC Content Standards Subcommittee Chair Mary Huismann, who also served as chair of the task group. Membership of the task group included: From MLA: Kristi Bergland, Patty Falk, Monica Figueroa, Karen Peters, Jim Soe Nyun, Michelle Urberg From OLAC: Melissa Burel, Scott Dutkiewicz, Bruce J. Evans, Greta de Groat, Rosemary Groenwald, Teressa Keenan, Yoko Kudo, Kelley
The MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee invites all interested persons to apply to be part of its subcommittees. There are open positions on all CMC subcommittees: Content Standards, Encoding Standards, and Vocabularies. If you are interested in being a part of CMC, please send a brief application addressed to the CMC chair or any of the current subcommittee chairs. Applications must be in writing and should state: 1) your specific interest with regards to the subcommittee(s) to which you would like to apply; 2) your cataloging/metadata background; and 3) your abilities to meet CMC service expectations. Applications must be received via email or posted to the bulletin board at the MLA conference by end of day on the Thursday (not the usual Friday this year) of MLA. (Email is preferable, and early submission is very helpful.) CMC Chair: Tracey Snyder (tls224@cornell.edu) Content Standards Subcommittee: Mary Huismann (huisma1@stolaf.edu) Encoding
I have compiled a list of MLA 2018 meetings and sessions that may be of interest to those who work in cataloging and/or metadata. I included all CMC business meetings and all sessions sponsored or co-sponsored by CMC, as well as a few other relevant meetings and sessions. See the MLA 2018 schedule online for full listings, locations, etc. (but please note that this is a draft schedule and subject to change): http://conferences.wp.musiclibraryassoc.org/program/ THURSDAY 9 AM-10:25 AM Cataloging and Metadata Town Hall (sponsored by CMC) 11 AM-12:25 PM Cataloging and Metadata Committee #1 1:30 PM-2:25 PM Encoding Standards Subcommittee 3:30 PM-4:25 PM What to Expect When You’re Analyzing, Transforming, and Inputting: A Linked Data Guide (sponsored by CMC) 4:30 PM-5:25 PM Content Standards Subcommittee 6-6:55 PM system-specific interest groups FRIDAY 9 AM-9:55 AM Vocabularies Subcommittee 9:30 AM-10:25 AM Technical Services Interest Group 11 AM-11:55 PM NACO/SACO/BIBCO
A status report of the RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign (3R) Project is available on the RDA Toolkit blog: http://www.rdatoolkit.org/3Rproject/SR3 The new target date for the initial rollout of the restructured and redesigned Toolkit is June 13, 2018. See the blog for screenshots and further details.
The following announcement about the IFLA Library Reference Model was posted today on the RSC website: IFLA Library Reference Model The RDA Steering Committee (RSC) welcomes the publication of the IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM) as an IFLA standard. The LRM was endorsed by the IFLA Professional Committee in August 2017; the final version is available at: https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11412. There are no significant changes to the LRM from the draft version used for the RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign (3R) Project by the RSC and its working groups. The project includes development of RDA as an implementation of the new model, which consolidates the separate IFLA Functional Requirements models on which RDA is based. The RSC recommends RDA Toolkit users to familiarize themselves with the LRM in preparation for the release of the new Toolkit in 2018. Posted 19 September 2017
The IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM)–formerly known as FRBR-LRM–is now available in its most recent version from March 2017: https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11412 FRBR is the conceptual model underlying RDA. RDA will be revised to reflect the new conceptual model LRM.
The April RDA Toolkit release was published on Tuesday, April 11, 2017. The release contains updates to MLA RDA Best Practices, as detailed below. As a reminder, the RDA Best Practices are available in the RDA Toolkit and the Best Practices Supplement documents are available at the CMC website. The April release also included changes to several LC-PCC Policy Statements (LC-PCC PS), summarized in this document available at the LC website. This update cycle was particularly challenging because changes to RDA content, LC-PCC PS and the RDA Best Practices were being developed simultaneously on a very tight time-frame in an effort to get as much as possible into this release before the impending RDA content freeze. As a result, some of the RDA Best Practices merely point to following LC (rather than LC/PCC) practice, as our editing deadline preceded PCC approval of the LC-PCC PS texts. Revisions, where necessary, will be placed in the
The April RDA Toolkit release was published on Tuesday, April 11, 2017. The release contains an RDA update, including approved proposals from the November 2016 RSC meeting. The release also contains Fast Track changes from the RSC as outlined in document RSC/Sec/7 available at the RSC website. Work continues on the synchronization of the Toolkit and Registry, part of the first phase of the larger RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign (3R) Project. The release also includes changes to several LC-PCC Policy Statements (LC-PCC PS), summarized in this document available at the LC website. Several changes were also made to the MLA RDA Best Practices; these changes will be covered in a separate blog post. RDA Music-Related Changes New/Revised instructions Plate Number for Notated Music (RDA 2.15.3.1 & 2.15.3.3): The second paragraph of the former instruction clarifies information about the plate number. The latter instruction features new examples. Medium of Performance
Congratulations to Beth Iseminger, Nancy Lorimer, Casey Mullin, and Hermine Vermeij on their article in the March 2017 issue of NOTES, Faceted Vocabularies for Music: A New Era in Resource Discovery. This article highlights important work done by the Cataloging and Metadata Committee (formerly the Bibliographic Control Committee) of MLA, in partnership with the Library of Congress, as well as earlier work leading up to the development and publication of the vocabularies (LCMPT and LCGFT for music). Access online via Project MUSE or MLA: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/?NotesOnlineAccess DOI: 10.1353/not.2017.0000
Here are the slides that were unable to be shown at the meeting: PCC Music Funnel Projects meeting 2017-blogpost-bw For more information, contact the Coordinators: Mark Scharff, NMP Coordinator Nancy Lorimer, SACO Coordinator Linda Blair, BIBCO Coordinator
The February RDA Toolkit release was published on Tuesday, February 14, 2017. The release contained corrections and Fast Track changes from the RSC as outlined in document RSC/Sec 6 available at the RSC website. Several of the Fast Track changes involved conversion of tables to lists (e.g., RDA 3.2.1.3 Media Type, RDA 6.9.1.3 Recording Content Type) and changes to glossary terms. Of particular interest in the latter category is this addition to the definition for “container”–“an insert visible through the housing is part of the container.” Also appearing in this release are changes to element labels, definitions, scope notes, and instructions in five categories (the first four with representative examples): Replacement of the wording “person, family, or corporate body” with “agent” or “agents” –Chapter 19 Agents Associated with a Work Deletion of articles within element names and replacement of a definite article with an indefinite article preceding element names in
Join the Cataloging and Metadata Committee in Orlando next Friday, February 24, 2017 at our annual Town Hall program session: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/mpage/mla_2017_fr_1_5 This session will also be streamed for those not in attendance at MLA: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/mpage/mla_2017_stream Topics and speakers are listed below: Introduction (Tracey Snyder) RDA/LC-PCC PS/MLA BP updates (Damian Iseminger & Mary Huismann) LCGFT and LCMPT updates (Casey Mullin) MARC music updates—382 and more (James Soe Nyun) IFLA LRM (formerly FRBR-LRM) discussion (Damian Iseminger & Christopher Holden) MLA LDWG report and updates (James Soe Nyun & Kirk-Evan Billet) Discussion and Q&A
The Music Library Association’s Cataloging and Metadata Committee will hold its annual in-person meetings Thursday, February 23 and Saturday, February 25, 2017. For times and locations, see: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/mpage/mla_2017_sched_busi The agenda for the two meetings, with links to several related reports embedded, is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7wsl3doYbMKeGdpWkEzVEt2Y2s/view?usp=sharing The Library of Congress report is available here: https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/MLA2017.docx All are welcome to join us for the open portion of the meetings. Tracey Snyder CMC Chair
The Content Standards Subcommittee will be meeting on Saturday, February 25, 2017 at 11:00 am. The agenda is available here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxo4Xt0aRdn8eTNQS3dhZWVPWm8 Please join us on Saturday the 25th! Mary Huismann CSS Chair
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