Content Standards Annual Report: 2020

Manage the chair transition that will take place following the MLA 2020 meeting (Goal area: Organizational Excellence, Value of the Profession)

- Outgoing chair Mary Huismann met in person with Keith Knop at the Norfolk meeting to discuss the state of current and future projects, created a shared transition documentation folder, and notified CC:DA chair Amanda Ros and ALA Publishing representative Jamie Hennelly of the transition.
- Mary Huismann completed work on a preliminary analysis and tentative mapping of the current RDA Best Practices to the new Toolkit structure, based on a spreadsheet developed by the British Library.

Revise the RDA Best Practices as required for the RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign (3R) Project once the guidance and files are received from ALA Publishing (Goal areas: Education, Value of the Profession)

- All RDA Best Practices text in the current live version of the Toolkit has been examined and tentatively mapped to a location in the current beta Toolkit. Revisions have occurred where necessary and possible. Some Best Practices statements that refer to or otherwise depend on LC or PCC policies are on hold until LC-PCC decisions are made.
- Text for 37 RDA elements and 1 RDA guidance page is ready for final comment and review. All Manifestation-level elements are expected to be ready for final review by the December switchover date.
- The chair requested that ALA Publishing run the script to generate the file structure that will house the MLA Best Practices. However, ALA Publishing and the RSC Technical Chair advised delaying the script until the December release in order to minimize the risk of significant manual adjustments having to be made due to Toolkit revisions.
- The chair participates in monthly meetings of the 3R Policy Writers’ Group, organized by ALA Publishing.
- An update to Supplement 1 was posted in October, based on comments received through the feedback form or forwarded to the chair by Jay Weitz.

Work collaboratively with LC, OLAC, and others to provide input and/or revisions to RDA proposals, LC-PCC Policy Statements, and other documents relevant to music cataloging (Goal areas: Education, Value of the Profession)

- Content Standards provided feedback on six papers for the RDA Steering Committee, one paper for the North American RDA Committee, and one RDA proposal submitted by ARLIS/NA through CC:DA.
- Work on the Best Practices migration project resulted in two error reports filed for the beta RDA Toolkit and identification of one potential RDA element proposal.

Provide leadership for RDA-focused training opportunities (e.g., MLA-sponsored webinars, conference presentations, etc.) (Goal area: Education, Technology, Value of the Profession)

- The Electronic Score Cataloging Task Group (Chair: Chuck Peters; Members: Linda Bagley, Benjamin Barba, Kristi Bergland, Reed David) was created following discussion at the Content Standards and CMC meetings in Norfolk. The task group is charged with creating a set of draft best practices for digital score cataloging, and a discussion paper exploring the ancillary challenges that must be resolved before or during the cataloging of digital scores.
- Representatives from CMC, CSS, and the Electronic Score Cataloging Task Group met with MLA President Susannah Cleveland and representatives from other MLA groups concerned with related issues affecting discovery, licensing and acquisition, tangible preservation and binding, and digital preservation to discuss the formation of an E-Scores Working Group. Approval is pending.
- A CMC-sponsored session on cataloging electronic scores, led by Chuck Peters and Keith Knop, was accepted for MLA 2021.
- Keith Knop agreed to develop a 4-week course on basic music cataloging for MLA/ALA Publishing. The course was originally proposed for October 2020 but has been rescheduled to January 2021.

Revise the RDA Best Practices as required for the RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign (3R) Project once the guidance and files are received from ALA Publishing (Goal areas: Education, Value of the Profession)
Develop application profiles and/or workflow documentation to support the revised RDA Best Practices. (Goal areas: Education, Value of the Profession)
Work collaboratively with LC, OLAC, and others to provide input and/or revisions to RDA proposals, LC-PCC Policy Statements, and other documents relevant to music cataloging (Goal areas: Education, Value of the Profession; FY 2019-2020 Action: Engage with Other Fine Arts Professional Organizations to Pursue Collaborations for Meetings, Education, and Advocacy)
Provide leadership for RDA-focused training opportunities (e.g., MLA-sponsored webinars, conference presentations, etc.) (Goal area: Education, Technology, Value of the Profession)

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