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Content Standards Subcommittee: MLA Report 2017

Music Library Association Cataloging and Metadata Committee Content Standards Subcommittee (CSS) Business Meeting Saturday, February 25, 2017 Orlando, Florida Members present: Mary Huismann (chair), Linda Blair (BIBCO liaison), Sonia Archer-Capuzzo, Ann  Churukian, Chris Diamond, Bruce Evans, Patty Falk, Kevin Kishimoto, Morris Levy, Anna Alfeld LoPrete, Rick McRae, Jennifer Olson, Shelley Rogers, Mark Scharff (NACO liaison), Tomoko Shibuya, Jay Weitz (OCLC Representative) Member attending remotely: Peter Lisius Members not present: Sophie Rondeau, Michi Hoban (LC Representative), Valerie Weinberg (LC  Representative) Guest: Damian Iseminger (LC, attending on behalf of Michi Hoban and Valerie Weinberg) Visitors: 18 Welcome & introductions CSS introductions were made around the table The chair gave brief remarks about the background and responsibilities of CSS. Chair’s report Membership Welcome new members (Ann, Anna, Bruce, Kevin, Patty, Rick, Shelley) Thanks to outgoing members (Chris, Damian, Morris, Bruce, Sophie) Communication CSS work takes place on our wiki Resources available from CMC

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Encoding Standards Subcommittee: MLA Report 2017

MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CATALOGING AND METADATA COMMITTEE Encoding Standards Subcommittee Business Meeting Thursday, February 23, 2017, 3:30-4:55pm Salon 5, Rosen Plaza Hotel, Orlando MINUTES Attendees: Jim Soe Nyun, Margaret Corby, Thom Pease, Matthew Wise, Karen Peters, Anne Adams, Hermine Vermeij, Keith Knop, Karla Jurgemeyer, Nancy Lorimer, Catherine Busselen, Mark Scharff, , Chris Holden, Kimmy Szeto, Jay Weitz (OCLC representative), Damian Iseminger (LC representative proxy) Absent: Morgan Cundiff and Steve Yusko (LC Representatives) 1) Meeting called to order at 3:33pm. 2) Welcome and introductions of the subcommittee members were made and an audience roster was sent around. 3) There were no adjustments to the agenda. 4) Encoding Standards Chair’s report (Soe Nyun) a. ALA Liaison Reports i. Annual 2016 (Orlando) (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7wsl3doYbMKQlotUkZXS0l4Qms/view?usp=sharing) ii. Midwinter 2017 (Atlanta) (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxViFaIR72G1YWV1MWtsSHBia0/view?usp=sharing) iii. Highlights from Midwinter, big metadata standards committee (i.e. ALCTS, RUSA, …) won’t be looking at individual ontologies; CCDA had interesting discussion paper dealing with

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Encoding Standards Subcommittee: MLA Report 2016

Encoding Standards Subcommittee Business Meeting Friday, March 4, 2016 4:00-5:30 PM Members present: Anne Adams, Catherine Busselen, Ralph Hartsock, Chris Holden, Karla Jurgemeyer, Keith Knop, Lisa McFall, Karen Peters, Jim Soe Nyun, Hermine Vermeij, Jay Weitz, Steve Yusko Members absent (excused): Thom Pease, Matthew Wise Non-members present: Margaret Corby, Kathy Glennan, Jean Harden, Chris Hertzog, Kevin Kishimoto, Nancy Lorimer, Deb Morris, Tomoko Shibuya, Tracey Snyder 1. Minutes of the 2015 joint Metadata and MARC Formats Subcommittees were approved without change. 2. Outgoing members Lisa McFall and Ralph Hartsock, who are rotating off the Subcommittee at the end of this meeting, were thanked for their service. This was followed by a call for new members, with applications due by 11:00AM Saturday, March 5, 2016. 3. Report on previous year’s MARC activity: work was done on one Proposal and three Discussion Papers, which were presented at MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) meetings at

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Vocabularies Subcommittee/Genre Form Task Force: MLA Report 2016

Vocabularies Subcommittee and Genre/Form Task Force Joint Business Meeting Friday, March 4, 2016, 1:30-3:00pm Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza Hotel (Salon H/I) Members present: Vocabularies Subcommittee: Casey Mullin (Chair), Rebecca Belford, Kirk-Evan Billet, Reed David, Emma Dederick, Matt Ertz, Kenneth Kauffman, Kevin Kishimoto, Jacob Schaub, Ann Shaffer, Hannah Spence (via Skype), Jennifer Vaughn, Janelle West, Brad Young, Maarja Vigorito (LC Representative), Jay Weitz (OCLC Representative) Genre/Form Task Force: Nancy Lorimer (Chair), Ralph Hartsock, Beth Iseminger, Marty Jenkins, Casey Mullin, Karen Peters, Sheila Torres-Blank, Hermine Vermeij Absent: Marc McKnight, Thomas Pease Visitors present: approximately 30 Mullin thanked outgoing VS members Emma Dederick, Kenneth Kauffman and Kevin Kishimoto for their service. VS Chair’s report (Mullin) Mullin alerted the meeting to his ALA liaison reports from Annual 2015 (San Francisco) and Midwinter 2016 (Boston), both available on Google Drive. Annual 2015: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5MJM6hP4HZFOHpPOGY1SmhxaU0/view?usp=sharing Midwinter 2016: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5MJM6hP4HZFaW1HU1AtcW1sSTA/view?usp=sharing Mullin summarized the past year’s work, which utilized a

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CMC Business Meeting Report 2016

MLA Annual Meeting 2016 Cincinnati, Ohio Online agenda and links available on CMC Blog at: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/blogpost/1258266/Cataloging­and­Metadata Meeting #1 Thursday, March 3, 2016 11:00 am­12:30 pm I. Introduction and announcements A. Adjustments to agenda – 1. There were no adjustments needed for the agenda. B. Thanks to outgoing members 1. Beth Iseminger thanked the outgoing Content Standards Subcommittee Chair, Tracey Snyder, the BIBFRAME Task Force Chair, Kimmy Szeto, and the Genre Form Task Force Chair, Nancy Lorimer, for their services to the CMC. C. Welcome incoming members 1. Beth welcomed Mary Huismann, the incoming Content Standards Subcommittee Chair. D. Administrative business ­ 1.​​Documentation a.​C​MC roster 2016­2017 b.​C​MC calendar 2016­2017 2. Announce upcoming program sessions a. Beth highlighted 5 specific CMC and related programs: Friday, the 9:00­10:30 plenary session will highlight practical applications of linked data, an 11:00­12:30 session will focus on music discovery requirements in action that is co­sponsored with the

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BIBFRAME Task Force: MLA Report 2016

BIBFRAME Task Force Business Meeting Thursday, March 3, 3:30pm, Room Salon H/I Summary written by Kimmy Szeto, Baruch College, City University of New York Members present: Kimmy Szeto (chair), Anne Adams, Kirk-Evan Billet, Catherine Busselen, Kevin Kishimoto, Hermine Vermeij, Anna LoPrete, Lisa McFall, Tracey Snyder, James Soe Nyun, Laura Yust Non-members present: 34 in person, 7 virtual (from the Library Congress locations in Culpeper, VA and Washington, DC) This meeting was the second and last in-person business meeting of the BIBFRAME Task Force. The goals of the meeting was to wrap up our work before Task Force’s charge expires at the close of the Annual Meeting and to discuss the transition as the Encoding Standards Subcommittee takes over the bulk of MLA’s BIBFRAME development work. After circulating print copies of the Task Force’s final report to non-members and publicizing other BIBFRAME events at MLA, Kimmy Szeto reviewed the charge of

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Content Standards Subcommittee: MLA Report 2016

Content Standards Subcommittee Business Meeting Saturday, March 5, 2016, Cincinnati, Ohio Members present: Tracey Snyder (chair), Elizabeth Hille Cribbs, Jean Harden, Beth Hobart, Mary Huismann, Damian Iseminger, Morris Levy, Steve Mantz, Jennifer Olson, Charles Peters, Ray Schmidt, Tomoko Shibuya, Amy Strickland, Jay Weitz (OCLC Representative) Members attending virtually: Sonia Archer-Capuzzo, Peter Lisius, Sophie Rondeau, Valerie Weinberg (LC Representative) Members not present: Chris Diamond, Michi Hoban (LC Representative) About the subcommittee Introductions: CSS introductions were made around the table Mark Scharff (NMP Coordinator) and Linda Blair (BIBCO Music Funnel Coordinator) are ex officio CSS members Formed in 2015 Merger of two former subcommittees—Descriptive Cataloging Subcommittee and Authorities Subcommittee Task groups carry out work Membership Welcome new members (Mary, Peter, Jennifer, Sophie) Thank outgoing members (Elizabeth, Jean, Beth, Steve, Chuck, Ray, Amy) Applications due to subcommittee chairs Saturday 11 AM Mary will be the new chair of CSS Tracey will be the

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JSC Music Working Group Meeting Report: MLA 2015

JSC Music Working Group Meeting Report MLA Annual Meeting 2015, Denver, Colorado Submitted by Damian Iseminger, Chair Present: Damian Iseminger, chair, New England Conservatory; Jean Harden, University of North Texas; Kevin Kishimoto, University of Chicago; Daniel Paradis, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec; Thomas Pease, Library of Congress; Raymond Schmidt, Wellesley College; Tracey Snyder, Cornell University; Steve Yusko, Library of Congress Absent: Anders Cato, European RDA Interest Group; Valerie Weinberg, Library of Congress JSC Liaison: Kathy Glennan, University of Maryland, American Library Association Representative, Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA The JSC Music Working Group (JMWG) held an open meeting at the Music Library Association Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, on February 26, 2015 from 4:30-6PM. Chair Damian Iseminger provided a brief summary of the work that JMWG had completed since March 2014. The JMWG submitted 9 proposals to the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC). They

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BIBFRAME Task Force: MLA Report 2015

BIBFRAME Task Force Meeting Report MLA Annual Meeting 2015, Denver, Colorado Submitted by Kimmy Szeto, Chair The BIBFRAME Task Force met informally at the MLA Annual Meeting in Denver on Thursday, February 26, at 6 PM. Present at the meeting were: Kirk-Evan Billet, Kevin Kishimoto, James Soe-Nyun, Kimmy Szeto, Anne Adams, Sophie Rondeau, Hermine Vermeij, Anna Alfeld LoPrete, Catherine Busselen, Tracey Snyder, and Beth Iseminger. Task force members made introductions and reported on their general experience working together, followed by working group leaders reporting on their progress. We then delved into the specifics of our analysis of MARC-to-BIBFRAME conversion, a central component of our charge which the majority of us is currently working on. We discussed the goals of the analysis, and decided to create uniform scope, methodology, procedures, and formatting of analysis results across the working groups. At the end of the meeting, we established a target date for

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RDA Music Implementation Task Force: MLA Report 2015

RDA Music Implementation Task Force Final Business Meeting Report MLA Annual Meeting 2015, Denver, Colorado Submitted by Casey Mullin, Chair Present: Casey Mullin, Chair,Mary Huismann, Damian Iseminger, Daniel Paradis, Ray Schmidt, Hermine Vermeij Approximately 15-20 guests Best Practices for Music Cataloging Using RDA and MARC21, Version 1.1 The Best Practices, v.1.1, were published in PDF on BCC website on 2/17/15 and released in marked-up form on RDA Toolkit on the same day. The chair reported on his experience working with ALA Publishing to learn and implement ALA’s content management system for preparing MLA’s content for the Toolkit. Thanks to very thorough proofreading by Task Force members and several helpful WebEx training/troubleshooting sessions with Jamie Hennelly of ALA Publishing, the TF was able to keep on schedule and have the Best Practices content ready for the February release deadline. Certain sections of the Best Practices were not marked up for Toolkit

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MARC Formats Subcommittee/Metadata Subcommittee: MLA Report 2015

MARC Formats/Metadata Subcommittee Joint Business Meeting Report MLA Annual Meeting 2015, Denver, Colorado Submitted by Sandy Rodriguez, MARC Formats Subcommittee Chair; Lisa McFall, Metadata Subcommittee Chair; and James Soe Nyun, Encoding Standards Subcommittee Incoming Chair The MARC Formats and Metadata Subcommittees of BCC held their second joint meeting on Friday, February 27, 2015, with over 40 people in attendance. The minutes of the 2014 joint business meeting of the subcommittees were approved by the voting members. MAC Report Sandy Rodriguez, chair of the MARC Formats Subcommittee, summarized her report on the MARC Advisory Committee. The MARC Advisory Committee met during both ALA Annual and Midwinter conferences. At the Midwinter conference, MLA presented a paper on defining subfield $e to code number of ensembles in MARC 382 (Medium of Performance), for both bibliographic and authority records. The paper passed. The subfield coding will be made available in the next MARC Update,

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Exploring a Faceted World: Discovering Music Resources Using Medium of Performance and Genre Terms: 2015

MLA Annual Meeting 2015, Denver, Colorado Summary written by Charles Peters, Indiana University Session presenters: Beth Iseminger, Harvard University; Casey Mullin, Stanford University; Hermine Vermeij, UCLA; Kevin Kishimoto, University of Chicago This session was sponsored by the MLA-BCC Subject Access Subcommittee and Genre/Form Task Force. The presentation included a discussion of ongoing developments in music vocabularies which could make finding and selecting music resources with online library catalogs easier and more efficient for users and public service staff. A summary follows; the full session can be viewed here: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/page/mla_2015_media Catalog searching / Kevin Kishimoto In library catalogs there are four general techniques used in searching for resources: browse, keyword single box, advanced keyword, and facets. The techniques complement one another in that they allow the user to approach the search from a variety of perspectives, using a single one or combining them, depending on what information is already known and

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