2023 Cataloguing and Metadata Meeting, Cambridge

Tuesday, 1 August 2023, 11:00am-12:30pm

Thursday, 3 August, 2023, 9:00am-10:30am

Draft agenda (additions are welcome!)

1. Introduction,
1. Welcome!
2. Reports from officers
1.  Chris Holden is a member of the ISBD Manifestation Task Force, which is a project to synchronize the recent updates to ISBD (International Standard of Bibliographic Description) with the manifestation entity in the LRM (Library Reference Model). In the past year, he has also been working to maintain the UNIMARC Medium of Performance vocabulary maintained by IFLA, and looking at options to implement the vocabulary in a Wikidata environment.
2.   Maria Aslanidi is a member of the IFLA PUC (Permanent UNIMARC Committee) which maintains and updates the UNIMARC format. She has been working on a project to create exemplars of music cataloging in UNIMARC. 
2. Updates to the world of cataloging
1. RDA and new official Toolkit
1. The original toolkit is "retiring" in 2026 
2. MLA Best Practices and LC-PCC Policy statements 
1. The National Library of Spain has RDA application profile, as well as vocabularies for medium of performance and genre/form. 
1. Perfil de aplicación RDA para música notada en la Biblioteca Nacional de España (bne.es) (Notated Music) 
2. Perfil de aplicación de RDA para grabaciones sonoras en la Biblioteca Nacional de España (bne.es) (Sound Recordings)
3. Vocabulario de Medios de Interpretación | Biblioteca Nacional de España (bne.es) (Vocabulary of Medium of Perfomance  .pdf)
4. Vocabulario de género/forma de géneros musicales (bne.es) (Vocabulary of Genre/Form of musical genres .pdf)  
5. Vocabularios de género/forma | Biblioteca Nacional de España (bne.es) (Vocabulary of Genre/Form of musical genres-  .mrc)
6. bne.es/sites/default/files/redBNE/SuministroRegistros/Genero_forma/GENFORMA_musica.xml  (Vocabulary of Genre/Form of musical genres-  .xml)
7. bne.es/sites/default/files/redBNE/SuministroRegistros/Genero_forma/GENEROFORMA_musica_SKOS.xml  (Vocabulary of Genre/Form of musical genres-  .SKOS.xml)
8. Perfil de aplicación RDA para obra en la Biblioteca Nacional de España (bne.es)  (RDA Application Profile for Work, Music [pp. 54-91])
3. MLA RDA Metadata Guidance
4. Library of Congress Metadata Guidance 
5. RSC Working Group on Extent  
6. Discussion:
1. Some desire from members for a way to catalog events in RDA, both for performances and recording sessions. We looked at "performance" and "recording event" elements in LRMoo. 
2. Discussion on dealing with musical settings of texts.  
2. IFLA-PUC and UNIMARC

1. Reports one and two 

3. PUC Subgroup for Harmonizing UNIMARC with ISBD 
3. Project Group: UNIMARC exemplars in music cataloging
4. Eric van Balkum: Podiumkunst.net Medium of Performance vocabulary (Presentation_Uitvoeringsmedium.pdf)
5. Study Group: Linked Data hub for music vocabularies
1. Update on the project

1. Wikidata property proposal

2. UNIMARC medium of performance terms in Wikidata

3. IFLA site awaiting update - late September or early October is the new estimate from IFLA.

4. Massimo’s site is still live 

2. Future directions for the project
1. Feasibility of a Wikibase
2. Looking at other IAML-maintained UNIMARC vocabularies
3. Looking at creating Wikidata items for musical works.
1. MLA Wikidata project 
3. Discussion    
1. Lots of interest in adding new languages to the IAML UNIMARC vocabulary
2. Interest in creating a landing page that provides an index of all medium of performance vocabularies in different languages. 
3. Some discussion about mapping these different vocabularies vs. adding new language terms to existing vocabularies.
1. Some questions about adding non-English terms to LCMPT. LCMPT as it is currently defined only uses English terms or foreign terms that are typically found in English-language reference sources. This seems unlikely to change, and it is unlikely that LCMPT will ever function as a multi-lingual vocabulary. 
2. The IFLA UNIMARC vocabulary is the one that we have the ability to add terms to as IAML is the body in charge of maintaining this vocabulary. 
4. Resources for Wikidata and Wikibase

1. LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group

2. WikiProject Music site

3. WikiMusic Telegram channel 

5. WikiMusic project ontology for music
6. Wikidata Christian hymns project 
6. ISBD 2021 revision and ISBDM
1. 2022 publication of revised ISBD 
2. ISBDM Draft

3. Webinar on ISBDM  

7. Cataloging questions
1. Representative expressions and music
2. Aggregates and music
3. Resources for music cataloging and music vocabularies
1. IFLA vocabularies site
2. Anything else?
4. What cataloging questions do other members have?
1. Maria proposed some sort of section-sponsored meeting in the next year to discuss music-related issues in the official RDA and come up with a unified way to deal with them.  
8. New business
1. Any other reports on music-related cataloging or linked data projects?
2. Directions for future Cataloguing & Metadata projects and sessions
1. Learning about OpenRefine?
2. Learning about Wikibase?
3. What do other members want to see?
4. Does anybody know anything about the status of the Performed Music Ontology?
   I tried to contact Nancy Lorimer, but to no avail (up to now). 
1. From the minutes of the most recent MLA CMC Encoding Standards Subcommittee meeting:  "LDWG Chair Kevin Kishimoto reported that when he took over as Chair back in 2018/19, there had been plans to test BIBFRAME and the PMO; but since then, a lot has changed in that landscape. BIBFRAME continues to be developed, while the PMO is undergoing revision (to a PMO “version 2”?), involving simplification that will make it easier to use. But after that revision is completed, it would be good to have some people test it. There also remains the question of who is going to host the PMO and who is going to be responsible for its maintenance"
5.  Section communications and the PBworks wiki

Attendance: 

August 1

Chris Holden (chair) (Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA), Maria Aslanidi (vice-chair, Ionian University, Greece), Kiichiro Kanai (Sagami Women's University, Japan), Eric van Balkum (Podiumkunst.net, Netherlands), Jelke Joosen (CEMPER, Belgium), Susan Clayton (British Library, UK), Lian Wintermans (RKD/Podiumkunst, Netherlands), Paula Quint (Netherlands Music Institute, Netherlands), Rosana Lanzelotte (Musica Brasilis, Brazil), Anna Zilkova (Music Center Slovakia, Slovakia), Teresa Delgado (National Library of Spain, Spain), Heidi Heinmaa (National Library of Estonia, Estonia), Jeff Lyon (Brigham Young University, USA)

August 3

Chris Holden (chair) (Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA), Maria Aslanidi (vice-chair, Ionian University, Greece), Paula Quint (Netherlands Music Institute, Netherlands), Roberta Schiavone (Conservatory of Udine, Italy), Chuck Peters (Indiana University, USA), Sara Taglietti (Ufficio Ricerca, Milan, Italy), Anna Zilkova (Music Center Slovakia, Slovakia), Charlotte Sienema (Stichting Omdroep Muziek, Hilversum, Netherlands), Lian Wintermans (RKO/Indepdendent, Netherlands), Jelke Joosen (CEMPER, Belgium), Kiichiro Kanai (Sagami Women's University, Japan), Nienkie deBoer (Het Balletorkest Amsterdam, Netherlands), Monther Al-Mantari (Royal Opera House, Muscat, Oman), Ruaya Al-Kharusi (Royal Opera House, Muscat, Oman), Heidi Heinmaa (National Library of Estonia, Estonia), Laikin Dantchenko (Indiana University, USA), Eric van Balkum (Podiumkunst.net, Netherlands), Kimmy Szeto (Baruch College, City University of New York, USA), Maria Albuquerque (Nova Lisbon University, Portugal)