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,
Metadata Standards Committee, June 28, 2015 Meeting at the American Library Association’s Annual meeting, 2015. Notes prepared for the Music Library Association Cataloging and Metadata Committee by Jim Soe Nyun. Full agenda available online: http://connect.ala.org/files/MSC%20ALA%20Annual%202015%20meeting%20agenda.docx Outgoing members were thanked, new members welcomed. Discussion of the Committee’s Metaware.buzz metadata information site: They are interested in developing content for the site Some content has been provided by the editor Some LIS students have contributed blog posts More postings from LIS students were on the way There was discussion of editors copy-editing content that was contributed, and a conclusion that the content was in the form of blog postings, which could take various approaches to style Checklist for Evaluating Metadata Standards (http://metaware.buzz/2015/01/20/draft-checklist-for-evaluating-metadata-standards/) No movement on this since Midwinter Proposed developing a new draft, with a title other than “Checklist” New draft will be out in 30 days and open for comments, with a
ALA Midwinter Meeting 2015, Chicago Report from the Metadata Interest Group, BIBFRAME Update Forum, and Metadata Standards Committee Submitted by Lisa McFall, Chair, MLA-BCCMetadata Subcommittee Metadata Interest Group (MIG) The Metadata Interest Group followed its usual meeting organization and featured two presentations followed by a short business meeting. Slides for both presentations may be viewed at: http://alamw15.ala.org/node/25875. The first presentation, given by Jennifer Wright and Matt Carruthers from the University of Michigan Libraries was titled “Breaking the Bottleneck: Automating the Reconciliation of Named Entities to the Library of Congress Name Authority File.” The presentation highlighted the University of Michigan’s use of OpenRefine to search the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) for matches to personal and corporate name files that were missed by the Library’s authority vendor. A surprising number of additional matches were found and then integrated into the Library’s records. The scripts that are used for this are available
The Music Library Association is the professional association for music libraries and librarianship in the United States. Founded in 1931, it has an international membership of librarians, musicians, scholars, educators, and members of the book and music trades. Complementing the Association’s national and international activities are eleven regional chapters that carry out its programs on the local level.
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