2022 Congress Meeting in Prague


 Cataloguing and Metadata Section at the 2022 Congress Meeting in Prague

Thursday, 28 July 2022, 9.00-10.30

Friday, 29 July 2022, 11.00-12.30

 

Conference Registration: https://www.iaml2022.cz/registration/online-registration-form

Congress Programme: https://www.iaml2022.cz/programme/conference-program 

 

 


 

 

Meeting Summary

Big thanks to our section officers for their reports and our guest Jeff Lyon for giving us an update on RDA/MARC21. We had two days of lively, free flowing discussions. In the course of the conversations, although not sequentially, we touched on every topic listed in the agenda.

Topics discussed:

Specific answers to questions posed on the agenda: 

 

Meeting Agenda 

In Attendance (in order on the sign-in sheet): 

 

Thursday, 28 July 2022. Kimmy Szeto (chair) (Baruch College, City University of New York, US), Jeff Lyon (Bringham Young University, US), Chris Holden (Library of Congress, US), Mariet Calsius (CEMPER, Netherlands), Eric van Balkum (Muziekschatten/Podiumkunst.net, Netherlands), Ditmer Weertman (Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Nikolay Kostandyan (Komitas Museum - Institute, Armenia), Attilio Bottegal (Biblioteca Berenson, Harvard University, Italy), Maria Aslanidi (Ionian University, Greece) 

 

Friday, 29 July 2022. Kimmy Szeto (chair) (Baruch College, City University of New York, US), Chris Holden (Library of Congress, US), Katrin Bicher (SLUB Dresden, Germant), Eric van Balkum (Muziekschatten/Podiumkunst.net, Netherlands), Ditmer Weertman (Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Jennifer Ward (RISM Zentralredaktion, Germany), Paula Quint (Netherlands Music Institute), Steven Jeon (University of Birmingham, UK), Jeff Lyon (Bringham Young University, US), Emmy von Diesen (ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, Netherlands), Attilio Bottegal (Biblioteca Berenson, Harvard University, Italy), Eva Neumayr (RISM Salzburg/Archive of the Archdiocese Salzburg/Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria), Alenka Bagarič (National and University Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia), Teresa Delgado (National Library of Spain), Maria Albuquerque (Biblioteca da Ajuda, Portugal), Maria Aslanidi (Ionian University, Greece) 

 

Elections

 

Approval of Agenda

 

Reports

Reports from the Section Officers

ISBD review: 

UNIMARC:

RDA/MARC21: 

Metadata Standards: 

 

Old Business

Joint session

Section website

Information on cataloguing from the Section website

Section communication (email list, pbworks, social media, etc.)

New Business

Any new business?

Next Meeting

 

 

Adjournment 

 

 


Reports

 

Permanent UNIMARC Committee

Submitted by Maria Aslanidi

 

I attended the 32nd IFLA PUC meeting online on 17th June 2022 and 21st June 2022. Discussions at this meeting primarily focused on proposals for numismatic objects (coins).

There were two proposals that are relevant to music cataloguing:

These two proposals will have most significant effects on UNIMARC cataloguers who deal with records that contain multiple scripts (such as Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, etc.).

The next PUC meeting is tentative scheduled for 11th and 13th July 2022.

For more information about the PUC and past meeting minutes, visit https://www.ifla.org/g/unimarc-rg/permanent-unimarc-committee-puc/

 

Part 2 of Maria's report

I attended the 32nd IFLA PUC meeting online on 11th July 2022 and 13rd July 2022. Discussions at this meeting primarily focused on Authority and Bibliographic fields, the latter focusing on numismatic objects, as follows:

There were several proposals that are relevant to music cataloguing:

All of the above proposals will have most significant effects on UNIMARC cataloguers who deal with records that:

 

 


LD4 affinity group

Submitted by Kyla Jemison

 

The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is an open cooperative group that organizes presentations on topics related to Wikidata and libraries and hosts working hours for Wikidata and Wikibase. The group’s goals include providing a welcoming, collaborative, and supportive space to discuss Wikidata related topics; gaining a basic understanding of Wikidata in the context of the Wiki community and its norms; inviting and encouraging participation from a variety of institutions and projects, including academic and public libraries, archives, and communities, to ensure different perspectives are shared and needs identified; and documenting and sharing work with the Wikidata community where it will be open for reuse and feedback. Many participants in this group were part of the PCC Wikidata Pilot, an group of PCC libraries interested in trying out Wikidata during the pandemic.

 

I am part of the affinity group’s coordination team, which is always open to new volunteers, so please let me know if anyone is interested. We meet monthly on Zoom to ensure we have speakers lined up for the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Calls and to plan projects and activities for the working hours and longer-term projects.

 

For myself, participating in the coordination group is an opportunity to connect with colleagues at other institutions who are interested in linked data in libraries. Participating in the calls and working hours allows me to learn about other libraries’ Wikidata practices and develop my own Wikidata skills that I can then share with colleagues at my institution. We have not been doing much with linked data, though we see that it is going to be an important part of metadata work in libraries in the future, and Wikidata has offered an easy way to begin learning how it works. The Affinity Group presentations have demonstrated some projects that are very possible for academic libraries to implement – describing local university faculty, departments, buildings, library collections, and archival collections in Wikidata, to name a few – and have been inspiring and useful for our library in our own explorations of Wikidata.

 

There has not been much discussion about music metadata in Wikidata as part of this group, though I know there is interest – several people involved come from a music background, and music is a fun and complicated type of thing to describe in Wikidata. If anyone would be interested in presenting to the group, or organizing a working hour (where someone provides a project and instructions and usually a spreadsheet of data, and participants help add that data to Wikidata), please reach out to myself (kyla.jemison@utoronto.ca) or any other member of the coordination team.


 

ISBD Review Group

 

Report on ISBD Review Group – IAML 2022

Chris Holden – IAML liaison to the review group

The 2021 Update to the 2011 Consolidated Edition of the ISBD (International Standard for Bibliographic Description) was released in draft form in December 2021, and officially released in its final form in May 2022. This update extends ISBD to a larger group of resources, and makes several other changes to optimize granular description of bibliographic data. Major changes in this revision include

Examples of bibliographic description done according to the 2021 Update have been collected and were submitted to the chair of the review group in April 2022 (these include examples of music resources that were assembled by members of IAML), and the publication of these examples can be expected soon.

While the update is considered complete, there are still some additional projects that are ongoing. There is some talk of contacting the MARC21 and UNIMARC committees to update examples encoded in these standards, as well as discussion about putting ISBD terms into IFLA’s MulDiCat dictionary. Translations of the update into Spanish and Italian are forthcoming. Finally, while the work of the ISBD Content Update task force is done, there is still a parallel ISBD for Manifestation Task Force, working on aligning ISBD to the LRM manifestation entity.