Karen Coyle is back to discuss, "What's going on with Cataloging???" Over ten years after the publication of FRBR and two years after the final draft of RDA, we come to a decision point.
The questions that are posed are not just about the adoption of new cataloging rules, but of possible new directions for library data. The report on the Future of Bibliographic Control advised us to increase sharing—between libraries and with non-library communities—and to move our data from silo'd databases to an open web platform.
We will review steps that are being taken to at least experiment with those recommendations: the definition of library terms in a format compatible with the Semantic Web; national and international efforts to create linkable library data for web services; and results from two significant efforts: the World Wide Web Consortium's Incubator Group on Linked Library Data and the U.S. National Libraries test of RDA.
There will be two sites in the Arrowhead Library System region hosting on site webinar viewing, one at the Arrowhead Library System Building in Mountain Iron, and one at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Webinar time is 11 A.M. CDT to 12:30 P.M.
For the Mountain Iron site, register with Rebecca Patton rpatton@arrowhead.lib.mn.us or Linda Wadman lwadman@arrowhead.lib.mn.us. For the UMD site, contact Sue Trettel, 218-726-8130 or strettel@d.umn.edu.
This College of DuPage Press/Library Learning Network event is also available via desktop streaming. If you prefer to participate via your own desktop, please register online through the College of DuPage website. Do not complete billing information section on the form. Windows Media Player is required to view the webcasts.
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